Foodie Friday: Slow Cooked Chicken Adobo

I love doing crock-pot meals.  They are easy, less of a mess, and dinner is done when you get home.  I love that feeling.  I have been in rut with crock-pot meals.  I just go to my default chicken breast, with carrots, potatoes, and cream of chicken soup. So I went on a search for a crock-pot meal that both my husband and I would enjoy.  I found this recipe on http://www.crock-pot.com/ and changed it up a bit. Chicken Adobo is a Filipino dish.

1 Chicken breast for each person
peeled garlic cloves from the head of one garlic bulb
1 large (or 2 small) sliced sweet or yellow onion
3.5 oz low sodium soy sauce or low sodium tamari
4 oz apple cider vinegar
1 inch knob of fresh ginger, cut into thick slices( I just used ground ginger)
6 bay leaves (or less)(I didn't have whole bay leaves, so I used crumpled up ones)
freshly ground black pepper
garlic powder
paprika (optional)
1 tablespoon + 1 tsp of heart healthy cooking oil (I used Olive Oil)

1.  Season both sides of the chicken breasts with paprika, garlic powder, and ground black pepper.

2. Grill the chicken so it browned.

3. Cut up onions into slices.

4. Put oil in the bottom of the crock-pot and line the onions at the bottom.

5. Sprinkle bay leaves on top of the onions

6. Put garlic in the crock pot.  You can either just put a few peeled cloves in mince up the cloves and put them in.  I used my garlic press. 

7.  Set the browned chicken in.

8. Pour the soy sauce and apple cider vinegar in the crock-pot
9. Turn on crock-pot and set to low for 8 hours. 

I am going to serve this with steamed green beans.  You could also serve it with rice.  Or Both :)

My husband wanted me to talk about these.  He thinks they are like doggy poop bags.  I really like these ziplock perfect portions for many reasons.  I can take chicken breasts and freeze them without the breasts sticking together.  Then when I need chicken I just pull out how much I need.  I am sure you have seen the commercials for them. 

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DIY Thursday: Dinosaur Hoodie

Since I made my daughter a tutu for Christmas, I needed to make my little guy something.  Since boys don't really do too much dress-up, except as super heroes (and I plan on making him a cape...maybe for his birthday if I can get my behind in gear), I had to find something else.  I also wanted something that would get a lot of use.  I came across this idea and knew it would be perfect. 

First, get yourself a hoodie.  I found a plain one at Walmart. 

Then cut out som diamond shaped scales.  You can either use felt or fleece.  I used fleece because I had this leftover fabric and I figured fleece would hold up better when washing.  Pin them into place.

Then sew them in place up the middle.

Then do a blanket stitch (I think that's the name of it) around the edges to close the sides together. 

Then viola you have your hoodie.  My little guy thinks he's the coolest thing now that he has dinosaur scales =)

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Wild Card Wednesday: Baby Girl Shower

Just a little over a month ago my sister's and I threw a shower for my sister who was at the time about 2 weeks away from delivering her first little girl. This was a little bit smaller shower, but was lots of fun. We did an open house had a refreshment table for the guests. Here's some pictures of what we did.

Food:

Chicken Artichoke Salad Sandwiches, Cake pops, a veggie tray, butter mints, and a pink fruity drink

 For the recipe for the Chicken Artichoke Salad click here

Decorations:

Tissue paper pom poms, a diaper cake, and a tablecloth

 Click here for more information on how to make these.

Click here to learn how to make one of these

Tiffany

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Sweet Tooth Tuesday: Funfetti Cookies

I love bright colors!!  They remind me of spring....which is just around the corner.  And I love easy recipes that even my kids can help make...and of course they learned from me how to correctly dish it out...1 schoop on the cookie sheet, a nibble for me =)

I found this recipe and knew it would be very kid-friendly and lots of fun...especially the sprinkle!!  Who doesn't love a lot of sprinkles?  And the best part....it only takes a few ingredintes:

Funfetti Cake Batter Cookies   
Ingredients: 
1 box Funfetti cake mix, 18.25 oz (or you can use vanilla cake mix)
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup color sprinkles (add extra sprinkles if you use the vanilla mix)

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix and baking powder. In a small bowl, mix together the eggs, oil and vanilla. Add the egg mixture to the cake mixture and stir to combine. Stir in the sprinkles.

 Drop by spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes on the cookie sheet before transferring to cooling rack. They will be very soft at first but will harden as they cool even more.

Makes 2 to 3 dozen

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