Today, almost everything I've done has been wrong! I think when I finish writing this post, I'm going to go take a nap and see if when I wake up, maybe I will stop making mistakes and can cross stitch.
The first thing I did today was mill soft white flour and make pancakes and bacon. That worked fine - no problems. Then . . it's a good thing I can laugh at myself.
After breakfast, I wanted to get Peach Pork Picante going in the slow cooker. Last week at Sam's, I bought a package of six pork chops. I thought I had divided them into two packages, vacuum sealed them and put them in the freezer but I forgot that I decided to fix all six of them at the same time and have leftovers. I had put the bag with the big chunk of six pork chops in a bowl of water and two hours later, they had not defrosted at all so I stuck them back in the freezer and grabbed a package with two chicken breasts because I had asked Vince yesterday if he wanted Chicken Cobbler or Peach Pork Picante and he said he wanted the pork. Well . . since that wasn't going to work, we were going to have Chicken Cobbler. About an hour later I looked at the recipe and it called for shredded rotisserie chicken! The chicken wasn't defrosted either so I stuck it back in the freezer, grabbed a bag of shredded chicken, dumped it into a bowl and defrosted it in the microwave.
And, I thought it was a slow cooker recipe. Nope - it was baked in the oven.
I asked Vince what time he wanted dinner and he said about 3. Every clock in this house sets itself when the time changes. Last week we ordered some magnetic "fireplace blankets" for the fireplaces because so much cold air comes in around them. They arrived yesterday and I put one on the fireplace downstairs. In the process, I found a battery operated clock that had fallen off the little stand next to my chair so I put it up on top of a cabinet next to the TV downstairs. I didn't even think about the time change.
So, at 2:00, I went upstairs, got the chicken cobbler started. Vince came in and said "What are you doing?" and I said "Getting dinner started." He said "Already?" I didn't think anything about til til I went to put it in the oven and the clock on the oven said it was 1:12. I thought . . shouldn't it say 2:12 and that's when I realized the little clock downstairs was an hour off. I told Vince .. I think we're going to be eating at 2 instead of 3 and explained what I had done. He was fine with it.
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Vince loves cooked greens. I prefer eating them all raw but I cooked him a pot of greens from the garden. There are at least five different types of greens in there.
The chicken cobbler was delicious. I followed the recipe except I used a box of Rosemary Cheddar Bay Biscuit Mix instead of regular.
We were both surprised at how much rosemary was in this mix. We both love rosemary but for someone who halfway likes it, I think it would have been a bit overpower.
The meal was really, really good. The cobbler totally fills a 9 x 13 dish so we'll have this again tomorrow. We don't usually eat the same thing two days in a row but I have PT at 1 and since we usually eat around 3 p.m., having a whole new meal ready wouldn't be easy . . like today's meal was easy with all the mess ups I made!
The recipe does call for a can of Cream of Chicken soup. I'm not a fan of using canned soups in recipes but I did it and I would do it again because this whole recipe was super easy and super good. Even with the canned soup, it was probably more healthy than eating out. How's that for justifying bad behavior?
OK . . I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up, I'm going to stitch til bedtime and then maybe (or maybe not), I'll have some progress to share on my latest project.
