The Ingredients Needed

Here is the Apricot Jam, Dijon Mustard, Maple Syrup, Tarragon and Paprika

Here is the Chicken and the White Wine

The apricot jam, Dijon Mustard, Maple Syrup, Wine, Tarragon and paprika in the bowl. You mix this and then hear it up so that you can get the jam all mixed in with the other ingredients.

The Chicken and the Sauce Mixture in the Crock Pot

The Final Product along with a side of rice and asparagus

Ingredients:

“When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they "don’t understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”

Helen Rowland

Lets see if he will be an adult and think about the kids more than himself, then  we can actually get this whole mess over with tomorrow. 

The questions..

1. What’s your favorite Easter candy?

Cadbury Eggs… or anything but those Peeps

2. Who do you think is cleaner..men or women?

well considering my son lives in a bottom less pit… that I will have to clean up in the next day or two so we can get new carpeting… I will have to say women….

3. Which do you prefer..wordy blog posts or ones with pictures?

I like a mix of both.. but if I had to pick one it would be pictures

4. Were you popular in highschool?

I knew almost everyone… worked in the Deans office… but I lived in my own little world… so nope not popular at all

5. What’s your bra size?

I have no  idea.. I’ll check later….

6. How many states have you lived in?

Just Illinois….

7. What’s one blog you read every day?

does Facebook count?  I skim so many through my google reader I don’t really know if I actually read 1 every day….

8. Peanut butter or Nutella?

neither… yuck

Questions for Friday, 3/12: (Thanks to Erica, Erin, Renee,Pam, and me (I’m dying to know the bed making thing…) for their question suggestions! Wanna be linked in a future 5QF? Mosey on over here, to my community, and offer up your best questions!)

1. How much time do you spend on the computer a day?

I hope to have most of both kids college paid for, I know how wonderful it feels to complete a 4 year degree and walk away with no loans… starting my life out at ground 0 instead of already behind the 8 ball.  Especially in the economy right  now, how many new college grads just can not find jobs. I want my kids to love what they do, to give them that freedom to by pass working at McDonalds(unless that is their wish) so that they can wait just a bit longer to land their dream job.  Now for my 2 a lot of that $$ will end up coming from grandparents, and hopefully scholarships.

3. Have you ever been in a car accident?

New Years Eve 1995 when Matt was 1.5 months old our car was totaled…. thankfully no injuries but I worried about Matt since he was still getting over a cracked skull…….

4. What is your favorite book?

just 1 I don’t have just 1… now I could narrow it down to 1 series.. The Magic of Recluse by L.E. Modesiit Jr…… that’s as close to 1 as I can get

5. Do you make your bed everyday?

Uh no… hey I consider it a good thing that I get up every day….

Welcome, friends from Follow Friday!

I hope you enjoy your visit to my place.

This book is by one of my all time favorite Authors L.E. Modesiit Jr, his Magic of Recluse series is my favorite series of all times. So after reading Imager’s Choice, the first of a new series, I eagerly awaited this 2nd volume.  I was not surprised at all, this was as good as the first and as the Magic of Recluse books. Now I eagerly await the 3rd book of this series which is due out some time later this year.

To see my full review of this book head on over to Tracy’s Book Review and see why I like this book so much.

I’ve seen this video in a few Blogs and since I really liked it I thought I would share it with all of you.

Now I am the first to say that I prefer WordPress to Blogger, but that does not mean that I do not find some Blogger Templates appealing. This is a free Template that I came across a few days ago and I thought I would share it with all of you.

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This Theme was found at Jackbook.com- I actually found the theme on Instant Shift and followed it back to Jackbook.com.

Mexican Tortilla Soup

1 lb ground beef
10 cups chicken broth
1 med onion, chopped
1 29 oz can Pinto Beans
1 28 oz can stewed tomatoes
2 cups Frozen Corn
2 pkgs Taco Seasoning
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
4 med potatoes, chopped

Tortilla chips

Garnish:
Cilantro, chopped
Shredded Cheese **
Sour Cream

Brown Ground Beef, drain off fat. Add remaining ingredients, except tortilla chips and garnish, and simmer until potatoes are tender.  Crush several chips into each person’s bowl, ladle in soup, and garnish with chopped cilantro, cheese, and/or sour cream. Serve with while tortilla chips on the side.

Easy Breezy Chicken Tacos

3 chicken breasts (can even be frozen)
1 jar of salsa
flour tortillas or corn if you’d like
shredded lettucs
cut up tomatoes
shredded cheese **
anything else you enjoy on your tacos

Directions:
-Place the chicken breasts in the crock pot
-Pour almost one jar of salsa over the top (save the rest for the tacos)
-Let it go on low all day long- about 8 hours or you could do high for 5 hours
And that’s it! Once the chicken is done, you can make tacos out of the tortillas (the corn probably need to be hardened in some hot oil, or just buy the already made taco shells), put on the lettuce, tomatoes, and cheese.

** With Shredded Cheese I really have found that when you do it yourself the results are really a whole lot better than what you get pre-shredded in bags at the store.. yes it takes more time but it melts better and to my mind tastes better.

These are recipes that I got from my mom and have enjoyed for quite some time. I’m sorry that there are no pictures this week but I have been super busy and have not been able to take the time to get pictures so I figured I would just share some of my favorite things.

Abraham Lincoln:

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Agatha Christie:

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Arthur Rubinstein:

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Life and death have really been laying heavy on my heart since yesterday. One of the moms in my in my small group at church unexpectedly died yesterday. Now I did not know her very well, only seen her a time or two, but she leaves behind 3 children and a husband. Her oldest and youngest are the same age as mine so this kind of hits home for me. My Thoughts and prayers are with her, her family and her friends as they deal with this.