Wish Me Luck!

I FINALLY have a job interview!!!! I got a call yesterday from Indian Hills Golf Course, which is in Riverside, about a drink cart position that I applied for a few days ago. I've got an interview at 1 today, and I am sooooo dang excited for it! I REALLY hope I get it, but even if I don't, it's nice to know that I've finally gotten an interview, yay!

Whoops!

Man, I was so on it for almost a WHOLE week, and then...I wasn't on it anymore. Either way, I've been busy taking pictures, so get ready cuz this is gonna be a lllloooonnnnnggggg post! :)





This is an awesome picture of the Tandoori Chicken, recipe is posted in the last post!






Shepard's Pie that I whipped up on my VERY own and bread that I made in my bread maker!



First good picture of me in a long time...The kid's kinda cute too



Silas LOVES anybody and everybody's hair! He pulls soooooo hard, I'm always trying to keep my hair from him



Sittin' up BY HIMSELF!








Silas has a little "corner" in our living room where all his toys and car seat and Bumbo are, and he'll sometimes get stuck between our blanket basket and the foot rest, like he is here, but this time he was actually enjoying it.





Watching the fishies

I do believe congratulations are in order....

My absolutely amazing sister who is the author of this blog, this blog, AND - as I just recently learned - was the #3 best quilting blogger in a quilt magazine (!) is pregnant with her 2nd baby!!! Pretty much everyone who reads this, reads her blogs too, so I'm really just bragging about how cool she is and the fact that she is MY sister, which makes me cool by association...Right? :) Either way, I'm so excited for her and her family and can't wait to be an aunt again!!

YUM-O

My amazing, wonderful, incredible AWESOME Mom sent me a cute package the other day, and in it was a Woman's Day magazine with 3 awesome chicken recipes in it. Over the last few weeks I managed to make all three recipes and they ROCK! They're all really easy and are soooooo good!

Here's the link for all 3 recipes:

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Food/Recipes/Quick-Cooking-Chicken-Recipes.html

Each recipe said to marinate for at least 15 minutes, but I found if I marinated them up to 2 hours, like it suggests, it's just that much better.

I just barely made the Lemon Rosemary chicken and it was sooo good, but the sauce I made TOOK THE CAKE! I took the rest of the marinade and boiled it so it thickened up and it would kill whatever bacteria that was still in there. I then melted 2 TB of butter into the pan, put in 2 TB of flour and cooked it til it was maybe medium brown, then I just alternated chicken stock and lemon juice til it had the consistency and taste that I wanted - I like my lemon sauces very lemon-y. In all I used almost a whole can of chicken stock and maybe like 5 TB of lemon juice? Rachael Ray's got NUTHIN' on me!!!

With the Tandoori chicken I DEFINITELY recommend making extra of the marinade to put on the chicken after it's done cooking, it was sooo cook, but there wasn't enough after it soaked into the chicken.

All 3 called for either minced garlic, minced ginger, or both. I just minced garlic up myself, and then used powdered ginger (I couldn't find minced ginger when I went to look for it) BUT I will definitely be using the jarred stuff in the future, I'm sure it'd make a HUGE difference!


<--- That's the Mojo Chicken. Easily the easiest chicken dish I've ever made!

Now go and make all three ASAP! Happy cooking!

Randoms

This is a random bunch of pictures from the last few weeks. Enjoy!



Silas has learned to get around quite well, between rolling and trying out his new Army crawl! He started out at the picture above and then all of a sudden...



...Popped out from under the coffee table!! He likes to be under things and well spend a good 1/2 hour just quietly playing under the table!



I can't remember if I've posted this picture, but it's adorable enough to be posted a few times. :)








Me and the BEACH! I got soooo sunburnt! :(