Today my baby turned 20 months. I gave her the first pedicure of her life. She was thrilled to have pink toenails!
(here is where I tried to include a picture, but with no success- so no pictures today. Sorry.)
I made a really yummy Chinese Chicken Noodle Salad for dinner. I made way too much. Do you want to come over and have some?
I cooked one package of pad thai rice noodles. The flat fettuccine shaped kind. Then rinsed in cold water for cold noodles.
I grated up a carrot. I grated up half a cucumber. I thinly sliced about a quarter of a green cabbage.
I steamed some chicken- maybe like a pound. I had eaten steamed chicken before, but never made it. I oversteamed it and it was only 5 minutes in the steamer from mostly frozen! However, the fact that I chopped it up into little bits meant that it didn't matter. This is a fantastic leftover or rubber chicken recipe!
Whoops! I almost forgot that I also cut up two tangerines, or tangelos, or whatever they are, into bite sized bits. Oh! And about 3 green onions too... but not bite sized bits, more like finely chopped. That all went in the salad too.
Then I quickly searched and found this dressing recipe on this website:
But I added in like a tablespoon of toasted sesame seeds because I had them.
Then I tossed everything together. I had to do it in 2 bowls because I had made WAY too much. This would be an ace summer pot luck recipe.
Yum! We both had seconds. It was an excellent summer dinner.
Audry is a very picky eater. I was running late on her dinner so I made her some banana rice pudding. It was delish. Too bad my husband washed the leftovers down the drain when he was helping to clean up the kitchen while I was putting away the chickens. OK. I won't complain because my husband was helping to clean up the kitchen!
I put an egg, a slurp of cream (in retrospect, milk would have been a better choice) maybe it was a quarter cup or so?, a half a banana, a dash of salt, about a tablespoon of honey and like a quarter cup of baby rice cereal into the food processor. Then I threw that into a dish and microwaved it for 5 minutes on half power.
Audry is a skinny little thing who can always do with a few extra calories. That is why I was inspired to use all cream. Yeah, but not next time.
In case you didn't notice, I do not love to measure things while I am cooking. I feel like it makes more dishes to wash. And things never seem to turn out the same way twice anyway, so why try that hard?
When it came out it was a little separated (why I say milk would be better) but I just mixed it with a spoon and added more rice cereal until I got a desired consistency.
SHE ATE IT! (I would have too). Too bad Willy threw the rest away. I will have to make more for her another time.
Success. And now I am enjoying a glass of wine in my clean kitchen watching the summer lightning out the window. Ahhh....
