Recipe catch up....

So as I promised (a little late mind you but still I am here) to tell you what I was cooking and if it was a flop or not. So I am going to post from this past Monday till tonight to catch you up. I apologize for having to back track a tad but I have been sick and not been able to post.

So here we go!!

Monday September 26th- Chicken Pot Pie (compliments of my sister and apparently Aunt.Somer) Chad LOVED it 4 stars he said.

Recipe to follow.

Tuesday September 27th- Ranch styles chicken sandwiches, twice bakes potato's and salad.

Another 4star recipe Recipe to follow

Wed 28th=Homemade chicken noodle soup (amazingly awesome and 4 stars) recipe to follow

Thursday 29th- Philly cheese steak sloppy joes, potatos and salad (4 stars)

****Chicken pot pie*******

2 packs of deep dish crust pie shells

2 cans of vegetables NO POTATO'S

2 can of cream of chicken

1 can of cream of mushroom

2 cans of chicken breast in water

Mix everything in a bowl and microwave till hot.

Pour into crust half in one crust and half into the other put the tops on the crust and walaa.

Cook at 350 for about 45 mint.

YUMMMMMOOOO!

Ranch style chicken sandwiches

Chicken recipe is found at thepioneerwoman.com under recipes

**if you have a problem finding it let me know*** note she did not make it a sandwich i did however and put it on bread and it was fantastic!!!!

Homemade chicken noodle soup

6 or 7 chicken legs

4 carrots

2 stalks of celery

1 box of chicken broth

small onion

self-rising flour

eggs

1tsp of salt

1/2 tsp of pepper

2 tsp of parsley flakes

1/4 tsp thyme

Directions:

1) put your chicken legs in a pot and let them boil once they start boiling good go down on the flame just a bit and let continue to semi-boil for 30 to 35 mint.

***While chicken is boiling go ahead and make your noodles

It takes 1 cup of flour to two eggs. (that will make enough noodles for two people)

make a well with your flour dump the eggs in and gently mix together continue to knead till the dough is no longer sticky and instead smooth and pliable add flour if needed.

Let dough rest for a few minutes.

2) Once chicken has boiled for 30 minutes or so pull the chicken out and let the water continue to simmer. Pull all the meat off of the chicken and than put the bones back into the water to boil for another 45 mint.

****while that is happening roll dough out as thin as possible and cut into very thin strips. *****

3) chopped up carrots,celery, and onion.

4) after bones have been boiling for 45 mints go ahead and take them out (only the bones keep the water in the pot that is our stock for this soup) and throw them away.

5) Put in the carrots,onions,celery,and salt,pepper,thyme and parsley flakes as well as chicken broth into the pot of water and let that simmer.

*****Take a pot with some water and salt and let boil when its boiling start adding noodles. watch closely they will cook FAST... once they are done they will rise to the top transfer them to the big pot of chicken broth and vegetables*******************

6) Once the noodles are added put the chicken pieces back into the pot let simmer for 25 mint and eat.

SOOO GOOD!

Last recipe

Philly cheese steak sloppy joes

1Tbl olive oil

1 lb ground beef

1 small softball size onion

1 green pepper chopped

2 Tbl steak sauce

1 cup of beef stock

Salt and black pepper

Rolls

1Tbl butter

1 Tbl flour

1 cup of milk

1 cup of provolone, shredded

Directions:

1) In a large skillet add the oil and ground beef. Let cook for 6 mints browning , add chopped onions and green peppers to the skillet. Let cook 3 to 4 mint or until veggies are tender.

2) Stir in the steak sauce and beef stock and season with salt and pepper.

3) Let begin to bubble and cook about 2 mint.

4) Melt butter in a medium size pot on a medium size flame.

5) stir in the flour and cook about 1 minute.

6)Whisk in milk bring up to a bubble and let thicken about two minutes.

7)Turn off heat and stir in cheese.

Once all melted assemble sandwiches pouring cheese over the top of meat before putting the top of the bun on..

ENJOY!

This recipe is from atasteofhomecooking.blogspot.com

great blog she has wonderful recipes check it out...

Ok that catches us up and I promise to be more accurate with sharing recipes...

if you have any questions let me know and ill try to help you. Feel free to comment and let me know if you like any of them.

Love and hugs,
francine

Taco Pizza with Kickin Sauce

Because lately I have been trying some really great NEW recipes and trying to make new menus based on what Chad really does or does not like I decided to start posting the recipes on here and sharing my thoughts on them. So from now on every night I will post about the recipe I cooked, Chad's rating based on 1-4 stars with 4 being great. The first recipe I am sharing does NOT have a picture I do apologize I took one with my phone but not my camera. However here is the recipe. It's amazing ...

Taco Pizza with a kickin sauce:

Crust:

1 Pkg active dry yeast

1 tsp white sugar

1 cup warm water

2 1/2 cups bread flour

2 Tbl olive oil

1tsp salt

Directions:

1) Pre-heat oven to 350.

2) In a medium size bowl dissolve yeast,sugar and warm water.

3) Let stand till creamy around 10mint or so.

4) Stir in flour, salt and oil. Beat until smooth and let rest for 5 minutes.

5) Take dough out and pat onto pizza pan depending on your shape and size how thick or thin the crust will be. ****be sure you grease the pan first*************

Ingredients:

1 can of black beans drained

1 Taco seasoning packet

1/2 lb of hamburger meat

1 bag of shredded cheese

2 Tomato's

1/2 a head of lettuce

1 large container of sour cream

hot sauce

1/2 cup pizza sauce

Directions:

1) Drain black beans and pour into a pan to heat. Once they are heating medium mash them and add 1/2 a packet of taco seasoning and let simmer. I added 1/4 cup of water while simmering to keep them from burning.

2) Brown hamburger meat and than add the other half of the taco seasoning to eat.

3) Pour the 1/2 cup of pizza sauce on the crust spreading out evenly, than pour black beans over that.

4) Next mix one container of sour cream with hot sauce of your choice you decide how much depending on how hot you like food.

5) Pour enough of the mixture over the beans to cover and save the rest.

6)Add the meat and than top with cheese.

7) Bake in the oven for 20 mint checking it periodically.

8) While waiting chop up tomato's and lettuce.

9) After pizza is down top with tomato's and lettuce and than drizzle remaining kickin sauce on top of pizza and eat...

The best pizza ever the perfect amount of everything...

ENJOY!

Chad gave it 4 stars and I did as well.. it was yummy!

If you try it let me know what you think.. ALSO***if you don't want to make a home made crust by one that's perfectly fine!!!*******

With Christ ALL things are possible!Francine

Weekend Re-Cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So this past weekend Chad was off work and as usual we spent pretty much the entire weekend together.. don't get me wrong I LOVE IT and could not be happier than when I am with him doing abosltuley anything. I know sappy and love struck probably come to your mind and that's ok because I am deffinatley ALL of the above....as i say often "it is what it is" anyway Friday was spent with Chad resting and catching up on some sleep and a late dinner at Zaxbys YUM and a quick trip to walmart to find a "hunting harness" for my sweet country boy becuase he was getting up EARLY the next day to do some much needed manly hunting. Is it just me or do other women find it funny how hunting puts a man in his zone of happiness like well shopping for a woman does. Tooo funny!

The alarm was set the hunting clothes had been found, he was given STRICT instructions to come back home in the SAME condition he left in and at 4am bright and early "My country boy" hoped up and got ready to go do some hunting. I said a silent prayer for him well because I always pray for him when he walks out the door, I need him to always come back home at the end of the day healthy and safe. This time I prayed for that harness thing to work because I am telling you right now you he was going to be in a tree WAY UP HIGH and well he needed to stay up there safely. Oh and let me interject here i did fail to get the picture but GOOD LORD HAVE MERCY i had no idea a man could look that darn good in camo... back off women he is TAKEN! I am sorry i could'nt resist... i just HAD to say it! ANYWAY...... he came home safe and sound didn't catch anything but he said he saw a doe but she saw him first.. I told him probably what happened is the doe was thinking "hmmmm i feel somebody incredibly cute looking at me" "hmmm where is he i feel him but don't see him" and than wham she saw ya... you didn't stand a chance.. he laughed and said I was crazy and probably a tad bias I BEG TO DIFFER but Im telling you that, that is probably exactley what happened she was overwhelmed with his absolute total cuteness! just sayin... I did it again im off subject back to saturday..

So misty lynn came over to hang with us and watch the GEORGIA game. They did a lot better and I don't care if they didn't win I am still a proud Georiga fan! So we had some sausage sandwhiches, cheese dip and chips and good fun.. screaming and hollaring like we were crazy....acutlly that was me and chad, misty just looked at us like we were crazy.

Here is misty finally giving in and giving me my picture... one way or the other I was getting a picture.. hahaha

My nails all done just for the Georgia game.... looking all red and sparkly..That's just how i roll!

****Let me insert here...quickly I do not like this picture of me, CHAD always takes a good picture I on the other hand look horrible.. Im taking one for the team but I am sooo not happy about it. Misty will be over tomorrow and maybe she can take a better one for me. I am sooo NOT photogenic however chad looks cute ever flippin time..how fair is that SOMEBODY tell me????**

Chad getting serious about the game... I do believe for most of the game this was his stance. I assumed a very same position I might add!!! There were many high fives in this game but at last we did come up short!

and that was our Saturday.....sunday was a rest and recoup day and I had a horrid migrain monday but we for the most part had another great weekend...How can you not when your hanging with one of your BFF's and the sweetest most wonderful boyfriend ever!!!!

OH i forgot to add my absolutley beautiful niece Callie came by with her dad Jason saturday for a second.. made my day to get to see her and her cute little self... :0)

Have a good night yall!
With Christ ALL things are possible!Francine

Project TOP SECRET has begun.....

So i am secretly working on obtaining some pictures that are totally ****TOP SECRET**** shhhh don't tell anybody..

The person im taking pictures of swears he hates having his picture taken.. hahah should have NEVER EVER told me that and seriously what fun is it to be in love with somebody and not take there picture..

So as I apply the colored hunting makeup and put on the camo clothes...i will slide under the bed wait patiently till I hear the slight snoring (ewww shoot i wasnt suppose to tell anybody he snores CRAP ok yall forget i said that ok..) and than i will quickly and as quietly as a cat snap and RUN!

Yall wish me luck if i get caught I am soooo DEAD MEAT!!!

Let the games begin.. poor thing doesn't even know what's coming his way.. I like to sneak up on my victims.. SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

With Christ ALL things are possible!Francine

Things I LOVED about today!

I decided it would be fun today to write about all the things that I just LOVED about this day so here we goo....

I loved that I got totally caught up on 5 of my classes and finished almost all my reading assignments.

I loved that first thing this morning I heard the front door open and than saw a very cute,blue eyed country boy peeking around the corner to say "good morning" to me.

I loved that I was able to get some rest today because I was up ALL NIGHT doing school work.

I loved that one of my BFF's got some great news today.

I loved that I got lot's of hugs and kisses (personally i don't think you can ever get enough of those but hey that's me)

I loved that the weather was amazing today...reminded me of fall.

I loved that Misty lynn brought me some surprises tonight and hung out with me for a while this evening.

I loved cooking a great meal for my sweetie and that he appreciated it enough to say "thank you"

I loved that chad was excited about me getting caught up with school work as i was.

I also loved that we had a talk about something today and he totally saw my point and was completely fine with what I had to tell him....

I really loved our down time, chilling on the couch watching tv and just talking. *I could do that all day and night*

I loved laughing so hard at misty tonight that I almost fell off the couch.

I loved my day ... it was good...it was perfect...it was everything I could have wanted and more.

I love GOD for blessing me with Chad and my friends and family. I am soo blessed and I LOVE that!

With Christ ALL things are possible!Francine

Letting God teach me to be humble!

So here is my first post on my NEW blog.... I felt EVERYTHING needed to change because well everything in my life IS changing. God often teaches me things AFTER I open my big mouth and before I THINK about what I may or may not have said....Funny how he does that to me. Could be a lesson in there perhaps I need to think that through a little more. ANWAY back on track here...Recently I discovered that somebody had purposely TRIED to cause some problems in my life. Somebody I do NOT like and does not like me. I was mad... I was beyond mad..and my sweet Chad was NOT a happy camper either. Seems in the past few months I have had several of these types of attacks and although I try to move on and forgive I have not really been successful at this. This morning though after spending last night talking to someone about it and talking to chad about it and stewing over it I felt like GOD was trying to show me something. I ignored his voice of reasoning at first BECAUSE what he had to say well it was not really what i wanted to hear but I knew I needed to listen. So after Chad got to bed and the house was quiet I slipped into what will soon be "Our office" and listened.

" you have to forgive them ALL of them" really this is what you want me to do God SERIOUSLY??? I knew the answer did not even wait i knew what had to be done. So I asked God to take away my inability to forgive because frankly some of the people that have hurt me in the past few months well for me to forgive on my own it wouldn't happen however GOD in his merciful way was able to help me do that. I realize now that by forgiving them for what they did to me, no matter how painful it was, I can now move on and move forward.

God has blessed me so much that I feel being obedient to what HE wants for me is not something I have to really think through it's just something that MUST be done.

I do not understand the reasoning behind this most recent attack but I feel like there are some lessons to be learned in all of this. I want to be able to teach "my children" how to forgive and I can not do that If I myself can not forgive someone for hurting me. I want to set the example that Christ has put in me to set and I can not do that if I am living a life that will not allow me to be able to forgive and be humble. God has his reasons for allowing things to happen the way they do sometimes and although we as his children may not always understand we can rest assured if there is a lesson to be learned and we are willing than we can learn it. I want GOD to teach me all he can so that I can be all he requires of me to be. I refuse to sit and stew and get mad over somebody elses said attempts at attacking me instead I am moving forward and moving on and letting GOD fight for me.. after all he really is the better person at that anyway!

First lesson since back in Georgia now learned....forgiveness...humbleness and speaking my mind....well two out of three isn't too bad now is it! :0) I am so glad God loves me despite my faults!

With Christ ALL things are possible!Francine