I have been super busy on creating some party decorations this past week.
I got an order from my Etsy shop to create a customized pack, which has been super fun. And I am starting on the decorations for Ian’s birthday party next month. I feel like I am so far behind! But the invitations are coming along, and I swear they have fewer pieces than last year.
Luckily one thing I don’t have to think too hard about is meal planning. I can quickly decide what to make for the next week or three or more using my favorite menu planning program Plan to Eat.
Oops….I almost didn’t get this posted. I planned it my meals, wrote the post and forgot to schedule it….
I feel like the weekend came and went so quickly. Last Friday my mom decided to take us out to dinner at the Spaghetti Factory. She had the boys for the day, like she does every Friday, so I met her and my sister & sister’s family there for dinner.
Sid was on fire that night. He was being so funny, had us cracking up.
Ice cream comes with dinner and he wanted vanilla. After a few bites he stuck his spoon in and the whole ball of ice cream came up on the spoon and then fell on to the table. So, naturally he picked up with his hand, had a few bites and put the rest in the to-go box.
I love cereal. Always have. When I was pregnant I ate it all the time. It took years before my nieces would eat cereal with milk because my sister didn’t want the mess. I totally get that, but since I ate it with milk Ian wanted to do the same. So I let him, then someone taught him to drink the milk after, then he taught Sid.
Isn’t he just the cutest?
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Do you ever have the dinner winner of the week? You know that one you made where everyone ate it without complaint?
Last week it was Wed and I made Parmesan Chicken Bites from Damn Delicious (another of my favorite recipe sources). Because the chicken is cut in little bites you get more beading per bite, which is awesome! Sid probably had 5 or 6 helpings before getting down from the table and two more while doing is after dinner laps around the kitchen.
I used three chicken breasts which was a ton of bites to dredge and bread but feed all four of us with two containers of left overs. The dredging and beading is tedious and time-consuming, but worth it in the end. I ended up browning them and finished cooking them in the oven because there was so many pieces. I was afraid of them drying out but they stayed nice and juicy.
Last night I had planned on making pork chops, but this head cold has gotten the better of me. I am not too outwardly sick, but my head is killing me. The sinus pressure has become unbearable. So there was no way I was going to cook something that took a lot of work.
Through Pinterest I found a new blog called Yellow Bliss Road and a wonderfully simple recipe for One Pan Spicy Lemon Chicken Pasta (I omitted the tomatoes cause you know me and tomatoes!) I also only used chicken broth (no water, cause the chicken stock in my freezer was three cups worth) and substituted the mozzarella cheese for a four cheese Italian blend.
So that is what it would have look liked with the tomatoes, and rotelli noodles (which I didn’t use).
So regardless of the minor changes I made the dish was still a hit! The boys ate all their dinner without complaint, even if prior to dinner Ian told me he didn’t like lemon chicken. Plus it was so easy to put together! My favorite kind of dinner.
In fact it was all I could do to not plan every night this upcoming week with one of her recipes. So I compromised on two nights.