new tasty EASY dinner

Ok, so here is the long and short of it.. I was trying to plan the meals for the week (at least roughly) and wanted tacos.. well.. no ground meat in the house.. ugh.. so I thought.. well.. restaurants make tacos out of LOTS of things.. pulled pork, chicken, beef.. why cant I?? so I took a pork roast and made this up.. and oh man it was GOOD..

2lbs boneless pork roast
1 Tablespoon chili powder
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 Tablespoon garlic powder (yes, garlic powder, it just works better for this..)
1 teaspoon cyanne powder
1 cup salsa

toss everything together in the crock pot and let it go on low for 6 to 8 hours (I did 6, but think 8 might have made it fall apart more) then take the meat out and let it rest. Then take the liquid from the crock pot, put it in a pan and heat it to simmering, while that is going shred the pork and then toss into the liquid. heat thru and then thicken with a bit of cornstarch and water.. and then the best part.. MAKE TACOS!!! so good.. I was shocked at how good it was.. and thrilled!! try it!! you will like it!!

breakfast for dinner..

Yesterday was just one of those days where I couldnt think of what I felt like having for dinner.. getting ready to go back on the diet makes me want to enjoy a few things first.. and yet couldnt think of anything that we had in that I wanted. So I looked at the leftovers.. turkey pot pie filling.. nah.. (going to have that tomorrow night) oh.. a little hunk of steak.. lots of eggs (mostly raw lol) cheese.. you see where I am going here? well here is what I made..

Steak Quiche

8 eggs
2 tablespoons salsa
1/3ish teaspoon salt
1/3ish teaspoon pepper
1/4ish cup milk (I dont measure it, I just add how much I think I need)
3/4 cup shredded cheese
1/2 cup leftover steak cut thin and small
pam

preheat the oven to 350*
in a large bowl beat eggs milk salt and pepper together
spray a 9" pie plate with pam, sprinkle the steak in as evenly as you can, same with salsa, and cheese. Pour egg mixture over everything. Bake for 30-45ish mins or till a knife can be inserted in the center and comes out clean. (WARNING: this will grow, eggs puff when you cook them, dont worry, they will deflate) cool for 5 mins serve and enjoy!

I also did this one..

Steak and Broccoli Quiche

8 eggs
1/3ish teaspoon salt
1/3ish teaspoon pepper

1/4ish cup milk (again no measuring)
3/4 cup shredded cheese
1/2 cup leftover steak cut thin and small 
1/2 10oz package frozen broccoli, cooked and WELL drained
pam

preheat the oven to 350*
in a large bowl beat eggs milk salt and pepper together
spray a 9" pie plate with pam, sprinkle the steak in as evenly as you can, same with broccoli, and cheese. Pour egg mixture over everything. Bake for 30-45ish mins or till a knife can be inserted in the center and comes out clean. cool for 5 mins serve and enjoy!


I served these with french toast made with homemade challah bread.. Now I have no eggs, no bread in the freezer, and no leftover steak! I do have half of each quiche in the freezer and 6 pieces of the french toast as well. those will make for easy feeding later on of the rest of the house.

On the same line, you can put just about anything you like into quiche. there are only 4 things I find you MUST have.. eggs, cheese, milk and salt. I made one with no salt, bad idea. No cheese, why thats just silly, and the milk too, and as for the eggs.. yea.. I want to see you make this with out them (or egg substitute if you MUST) .

So I was told that it was like having steak and eggs, and I made a serving and a half of plain steak serve the 4 of us, and have leftovers!

things I have been making..

Ok, so there are a few things I have been making here at home instead of buying at the store..


chicken/pork coating

1c flour
1/4c salt
1/8c garlic powder
1/8c dried minced onion
1T chili powder
1t pepper

coat chicken or pork and bake at 350* till done, or fry in a small amount of oil till cooked thru

yea yea yea.. I know it has a bit of salt in it.. but it is soooo good..



seasoned flour

1c flour
1T salt
1T pepper
1T chili powder
1T garlic powder
1T cumin
1Tonion powder

This I use when I coat beef cubes to make stew, or other meats before breading (sometimes)

kids magic bath

3c epsom salts
1 packet UNSWEETENED kool-aid (or wylers) drink mix

put in container and shake to mix
Pour 1/2 cup into running bath water

I promise it wont stain the bathtub or the kids.. just makes it a fun color and fruity smell.. tho the lemmonaid doesnt work so well at all.. just smells nice.. no color really..

I think thats about it for the moment.. if I remember more up they will go!!

so yea...

Ok, so I know that I havent been on in a bit.. oh well deal with it..

So why is it that I go and get dish washing gloves and one gets a hole in it?? then I continue to wear it.. it no longer keeps my hand dry.. the only thing it does is leak water, and make it so the water isnt so hot.. I dont know.. I think I need to get rid of it.. or see if one of those vinyl repair kits will fix it..

been busy.. doing thing here and there with making this a home.. last night went thru all the clean laundry and got it put away.. now need to get into the closet and fix that all up.. hmm.. perhaps Sunday..

I want to know why people insist on thinking they know everything about everything. I know that there are things I dont know.. but there is quite alot that I do know.. and I will admit when I am wrong..

Well at the moment I cant think of the rest of what I had to say.. so here.. http://icanhascheezburger.com/2010/02/18/funny-pictures-cat-i-pout-because/

dishes..

I dislike doing the dishes. I use hot enough water to all but scald my hands. If I wear gloves, then my hands smell. I dont get it. Why cant there be a way to get the dishes done well and not make me miserable. I suppose I just like to cook more then I like to clean up. This does not surprise me, not in the least. Oh well. I suppose I will just have to see about teaching the DDs to do them soon. That would be a nice thing. Too bad they are still too short.

I do however love to be able to take a completed dinner from the freezer and just let it defrost to be cooked at dinner time. Such a time saver.. Really it is..

Now where is my mandolin... damn it..

just...

It is already just one of those days.. kids fighting with me, and each other, my head is killing me and nothing is helping.. need to figure out dinner..

Whatever.. did you ever feel that you just dont care about anything or anyone? I hate that feeling.. cause then I start caring about the thins I cant control or fix.. why is that? I just dont get it.. of course at the moment I dont care anyway so it shouldnt matter.. The car has decided that it should leak water.. I suppose that is better then burning it.. a leak means a crack somewhere.. burning normally means a gasket.. would rather a hose then a gasket any day.. I need more magnetic surface to house my ever growing magnet collection... wonder if I can find that magnetic stuff to add to paint.. then I could make just about anything magnetic.. hmmmm... might have to go and look that up next.. we will see... there was something else I was going to look up and now I have forgotten.. man I hate that.. suffering from CRS today.. oh well.. I hope that I remember and when I do that I can look it up at the time... what have you all been looking up?

frigid

Here I sit, in a heated house, with power and food and not wondering where my next anything is coming from. I then start to think about the people that have no heat, no food, wondering if they will wake up the next morning because of the cold. It is something I try to not think about or I dwell on it. It also makes me glad that it isnt this cold here all winter long. I dont think I could deal with this 17* weather all the time.. nope.. not me.. I might like to be in the cooler weather, but this frigid is just too much for me. I think I am getting old.. meh.. Who knows.. and honestly.. who cares? Age is but a number to count the passing of time. It should not be a marker for things. Who cares in the end if you had your 1st kid at 15 or 35? Does it matter? No, what matters is the kind of parent you were. Who cares if you got your license when you were 17 or 77? If your driving record is good, then that is what should matter. Honestly it should be about WHO and HOW you are as a person. That is what it is. I dont know.. I think it is more people just being nosey about things more often then not. And now to finish the local paper and think about what to make for dinner tomorrow.. And time continues to pass.. as it is never ending, never changing, never moving its course from one second to another.