New Bedding

 We got new bedding this week as well as made a new headboard for our bed. Hope you like it.

Hang your hat

Fun Suff

These are some new fun things we have made.

Freezer Friends

Tangy Pineapple Chicken by Jen

Ingredients:
6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
2 cups Barbecue sauce
1 1/2 cup pineapple chunks, drained
1/2 cup brown sugar

Assembly:
Mix barbecue sauce and brown sugar together. Stir in pineapple chunks. Pour over chicken breasts. Place in 9x13 pan, cover and bake at 350 for 30-40 mins.

Freezer Friendz:
Thaw.  Pour bag of chicken with pineapple chunks in 9x13 pan.   Cover and bake at 350 for 30-40 mins.

We loved this recipe... the chicken was so moist. I served over rice and cooked carrots. check out Freezer Friendz.

Once a month cooking

So this month I embarked on a new adventure, once a month cooking. It is great. I love pulling out dinner and not worrying what is for dinner. I love that we can have fresh food with little day of effort. I love that when I cook chicken or beef I wash the pan once for the entire month and don't have to cook it again. Awesome. I love the variety. When you cook for two you can end up eating the same thing for a week which can be a little boring. I don't mind leftovers, but not for three days. A lot of recipes serve six or eight, and with two people that means 3 to 4 diners. Another plus is we are throwing away a lot less food which is always a plus. Right we just have the freezer part of our fridge, not an extra freezer and it works. Maybe by not eating out we can save up for a small freezer that way I can make breakfast foods and frozen cookie dough, but for now it works and works great.


I will start putting up my monthly menu as well as some of our favorite freezer friendly recipes and websites that I find. I would recommend cooking with a friend or splitting it up and swapping meals with a friend. Whatever you do have fun, shop the day before, and maybe pull up the computer and catch up on some tv on hulu.


Here is one of my new favorite recipes:

Salsa Chicken Burritos (Keezas freezer meals)

Ingredients

2 chicken breasts                     
1 can black beans                       
1 C brown rice                                
8oz pepper jack cheese               
16 oz salsa                                    
1 pkg taco seasoning                     
1/2 C chopped cilantro              
1 C corn (not pictured)                  
2 pkg 8 inch flour tortillas 
          

Cook  the chicken breasts and chop into 1/4 inch pieces.  Steam the brown rice according to package directions.  As these are cooking you can drain and rinse the black beans.  Drain excess moisture off the salsa.  Grate the pepper jack cheese.  Mix the rice, beans, salsa, cheese, taco seasoning, corn and cilantro in a medium mixing bowl.   At this stage you have the vegetarian version.  Now add the chopped chicken for the original version. Now place two heaping spoonfuls (about 2/3 C) of this filling into the middle of a tortilla. Next the left and right sides of the tortilla in over the filling and roll up the tortilla from the bottom to the top. Then wrap each filled tortilla in plastic wrap. Then place in the freezer.  When ready to eat, you can put one plastic wrapped Salsa Chicken Wrap into the microwave and cook on high for a 2-3 minutes.  Then let it rest for a minute or two so it is cool enough to handle.  Unwrap the plastic wrap and enjoy.  You can dip in sour cream.

This such a great snack or even meal. I love, love, love them. I used about 20 tortillas and only put about ½ cup in each, this amount seemed to work better for me. Hope you enjoy and don’t forget to check out the blog I found it at Keezas freezer meals.

Updates...

Here are some pics of our new dog George as well as so projects we have been up to.

More Trifty Finds

Pyrex Finds

Oh how I love vintage pyrex.

Thrift Store Finds

Sorry I have been MIA for the last few weeks we had some family in town. We had lots of fun with them. I will post pics from then later. As for now I wanted to show off some of my loot from the local thrift stores. (Which there are a ton of.) Anyway here is my loot from yesterday. I have already gotten crafty with some of it.  :) Next week I get to go thrifting with my Grandma which I am super excited about. Ok so here it is.

The House

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have been trying to get my house in order for company to come this weekend. So excited! This weekend we checked out a few new places Ruidoso and Cloudcroft. We were not to impressed with Ruidoso but we loved loved loved Cloudcroft. The weekend before we did some cool stuff in Las Cruces. I will post pics of these places later as well as some from around Nowhere, but for today...
 Here are some pictures of our House :)

Thanks for taking a look. : )

So far..

Life has been full of boxes, boxes, and more boxes. Last night we were able to take a break and go to diner with so people from Josh's work. It was so nice to hangout with other people :) Here are some pictures of what has been going on so far. I will keep this more up to date now that we have Internet at home. :)

These first pictures are from the trip out here. We got to stop and see the Smith's in San Antonio. 

The First Sat. we were here we went to several garage sales.

We got this piece for a steal at $15 and are sanding it down and painting it green. (Sorry Mom)

This was the other piece that we got for $60 with very little work needed. I love, love, love it.

The beautiful landscape.

Bailey with her cute bandanna

Still kind of a mess but this is the buffet which is across from the washer and dryer. In the back of the photo you can kind of see the kitchen cabinets and the door way on the right is into the dining room.

I will try to keep you more up dated and work on taking more pics of the house as it comes together.