Greek Dinner Night

I was suppose to post this last night but was having technical issues.
Tonight I did a Greek dinner. Chilly-Pepper is of Greek decent and I love the Greek flavors so I try to make different Greek foods. I see lots of people doing food blogs and I really like the ones where they direct you through the making of the dish so I have decided to lead you through the meal via pictures. I made Chicken Spanaki, Yellow Rice and Green Beans.
I also had Pooh-Bear come over for dinner tonight since Ry had duty. Pooh-Bear brought her kitty over also. Mr. Kitty is his name and he is the coolest cat. He has no fear and is so playful. I have never seen a cat that you can take to peoples houses because he is so cool about being in new places he doesn't hide like most cats would.

    Chicken Breast Spanaki
    1/2 cup olive oil
    2 stalks fresh green onions, chopped
    1 medium onion, chopped
    1 pound frozen spinach, washed, squeezed to remove excess water
    1/2 cup fresh dill, chopped
    2 whole eggs
    1 pound feta cheese, crumbled
    1 tablespoon ground pepper
    8 large chicken breasts
    Olive oil
    Lemon
    Oregano
  Pour olive oil in pot over medium heat and add both types of onion.
 Saute for 1 minute, and then add spinach. Saute for approximately
 10 minutes.
  Preheat the broiler. Pour spinach mixture in a bowl and cool. Add
 dill, eggs, feta and pepper to spinach mixture and mix very well.
 Butterfly chicken breasts and fill with spinach/feta mixture. Close
 the breast and broil for 10 minutes on each side. After 15 minutes,
 douse chicken breasts with olive oil, lemon and oregano, and serve.
The ingredients (only thing missing is the lemon had to wait for hubby to come home)

Chop all ingredients and crumble cheese then sauté the onions add spinach and let cool.

I forgot the picture of me draining the spinach but I put it in paper towels and squeezed all the water out of it.
Add all the cheese, egg and dill. Mix all together.

Butterfly the chicken breast

Stuff the breast with the cheese and spinach mixture

Lay out on a tray after all stuffed

Bake according to recipe

Rice and Beans
For the rice I just used the Mahatma Yellow rice and cooked it according to the directions.
For the beans I used cut green beans, bacon, onion, garlic and butter.
Slice onions and bacon also open and drain the beans

Fry the bacon until crisp, add the onion and saute some next add beans salt and pepper top off with some butter.

When all is said and done here is the wonderful dinner (please excuse my fine china).

Thank You for reading and I hope you try and enjoy the meal.

Changes

I have made lots of changes on my blog. I have changed every ones names and changed the name of my blog. I was never really happy with the layout of it all along. I think I am finally happy with it all. I want to thank everyone who gave me ideas for the blog. I am hoping to start blogging on a regular basis now.

Sleepy...

Very Sleepy tonight the time change has messed me all up and I have been getting up way to early the last couple days. Chilly-Pies sleeping has been terrible also it is 10 p.m and she just woke up from seems like a nap. Looks like MaMa will be even sleepier....

Love Trying New Recipes

I tried a couple new recipes tonight. I saw a post on one of the other blogs I follow here. She was talking about using evaporated milk so I went to carnation site and found a recipe book here and tried two of them tonight and will do two others in the next couple of days. The first one we had for dinner was…
Thai-Peanut Ginger Wings
1 can (12 fl. oz.) CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
1 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter
1/2 cup soy sauce, divided
1/4 cup chopped green onions
2 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
2 teaspoons rice or cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
5 lbs. frozen chicken wings, thawed

PLACE evaporated milk, peanut butter, 3 tablespoons soy sauce, green onions, ginger, vinegar and pepper flakes in blender; cover. Blend until smooth. Combine 1/2 cup peanut sauce, remaining 5 tablespoons soy sauce and chicken wings in large bowl; cover. Marinate chicken in refrigerator for 1 hour. Refrigerate remaining peanut sauce.
PREHEAT oven to 425º F. Foil-line and grease 2 baking sheets with sides.
PLACE chicken on prepared baking sheets. Discard any remaining marinade.
BAKE for 40 to 45 minutes, turning once, or until chicken is cooked through. Remove from baking sheets to serving platter. Stir remaining peanut sauce and spoon some over wings. If desired, serve remaining sauce with wings and assorted cut-up vegetables
*I substituted boneless skinless chicken breast and did not use the pepper flakes. The kids really liked it as did my Hubby.
Here is the finished product served with brown rice and peas...





PEAR OVEN Pancake
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, divided
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 can (12 fl. oz.) CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
3 large eggs
1 ripe pear, cored and thinly sliced
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

PREHEAT oven to 450º F.
POUR melted butter into 9-inch deep-dish pie plate or cake pan. Swirl to coat bottom and sides of plate. COMBINE flour, 1/4 cup sugar and salt in medium bowl. Whisk evaporated milk and eggs in another medium bowl until blended. Add to flour mixture; whisk for 30 seconds or until smooth. Pour batter into prepared pie plate. Arrange pear slices on top of batter in pinwheel design, pushing down slightly. Combine remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon in small bowl. Sprinkle top with sugar mixture. BAKE for 15 to 20 minutes or until puffed and golden brown. Serve warm.
*This also was very yummy. I liked that it wasn’t very sweet. And here is the finished pear pancake one fresh out of the oven and one of it cut.

Hope others will be able to try these and enjoy them as much as we did.

Our Source of Daily Laughter

Chilly-Pie Chilly-Pie Chilly-Pie she is such a wonderful two year old. She may be my most head strong one of the three but man she keeps us laughing. You just never know what she may do or say next. Case and point we went out to eat a few nights ago and she went from being scared to death of a skeleton on the wall (that the waitress kindly removed just for her) to being extremely silly and goofy. She also had a little ice cream and for some reason she gets all silly when she has ice cream. Chilly-Dog thought it would be funny to stick her face in her cake as she was trying to eat it like a dog and she thought that was the funniest thing ever. I am going to miss the toddler years these are my favorite time with my little ones. They are so innocent and have no idea what they are doing half the time but man it sure does end up being funny. My hope is that as she grows she continues to be silly as she grows and never looses her love to make us laugh. Oh and I was so happy I happened to still have my camera in my purse the other night so of course I snapped a few pictures. She also thought it was funny to give me mad looks.

Gonna Try To Get Back In The Swing Of Things.

Well not much has gone on in the last couple of months. Things have gotten a little better with Chilly-Pepper's work so that is good. I had to have my appendix removed. We are getting ready to go to Mom and Dad's for Thanksgiving looking very forward to that. Other than that life has just moved on. Had a few good things happen lately Thank You Lord for answered prayers.

Halloween was just yesterday. We stayed real low key this year Sea World had a special day for the kids with little trick-or-treating booths and special shows. The kids really enjoyed them selves. I am just to the point where society has gotten so bad that I am affraid to take my kids out so this was perfect for them.

Probably going to still be doing some updates to my blog but will still try to keep my posts updated.

                                                                        My Rocker Dude

My Sassy Kitty

And My Little Cowgirl

UGH

Man I am in a super rut right now. It just seems like things are spiraling out of control on us. Hours and commissions at work suck right now so of course that affects everything at home. Everything is starting to break around the house it just seems like one thing after another lately. It just sucks so bad it seems like for so long we go so good where everything is going just right then all of a sudden it all falls apart don't know what I do so bad to deserve it all. I hate having to call the landlord to fix things because I have a fear that he will raise the rent on us. I just don't know I don't even really have much to say right now. Gonna go get a good nights sleep so I am up and ready for the cable company tomorrow because our cable box decided to break last night also.