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Fried Rice with Chicken Recipe

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I decided to make my hubby’s favorite type of food for his birthday, Chinese food.   This year he decided to go to Great Moon Buffet for lunch on his birthday, just my luck.  Since the meal was all planned, he also had Chinese food for supper.   I served Fried Rice with Chicken, Egg Rolls, and Egg Foo Young.

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Fried Rice with Chicken
Cuisine: Ethnic
Serves: 6
Great recipe to serve as a side or main dish. We often serve this with Egg Rolls to complete our meal.
Ingredients
  • 9 bacon strips, diced
  • 1-1/2 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cubed
  • 3 medium carrot, chopped
  • 3 celery rib, chopped
  • 6 eggs, beaten
  • 4-1/2 cups cooked rice
  • 6 Tablespoons soy sauce
Instructions
  1. In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels.
  2. In the drippings, sauté the chicken, carrot and celery until chicken juices run clear; remove and keep warm.
  3. In the same skillet, scramble eggs over medium heat, breaking into small pieces.
  4. Stir in the chicken mixture, rice, soy sauce and bacon.

 

Happy Cooking!

jen

Menu Plan Monday: July 29th, 2013

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Menu July 29th – August 4th, 2013

29th – Monday –(Off) – Mushroom Stuffed Hamburger Steaks (Emeals Aldi 489)– Watermelon

30th – Tuesday – Salsa Sirloin Salad – Garlic Rolls – (Emeals Aldi 491)–

31st – Wednesday – Unstuffed Cabbage

1st – Thursday -(sorting) – Bacon –Turkey Cobb Sandwiches / Chips (Emeals Aldi 490)

2nd – Friday (Tommy home from camp) – Chicken Quesadillas (Emeals Aldi 489)– Watermelon

3rd – Saturday- Rotisserie Chicken (Crockpot) /Macaroni Cheese/ Broccoli

4th – Sunday – Apricot Country Ribs / Awesome Pasta Salad (All Recipes pg 30)/ Corn

Lunch:  Pizza Pasta Salad – Watermelon (Emeals Lunch 488)
Ham Pinwheels – (Emeals Aldi 489)–

Dessert:  Bread Pudding

For more Menu Planning inspiration stop by and visit Laura at Organizing Junkie and participate in Menu Plan Monday. More menu planning fun can be found at The Organised Housewife.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!!!

Happy Cooking!!

This post is linked to Menu Plan Monday at I’m an Organizing Junkie.

Our Favorite BBQ Sauce Recipe

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We love to BBQ in our house!  This Kansas City Style BBQ sauce is a family favorite.   We love to use it when grilling ribs, burgers and chickens.

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Our Favorite BBQ Sauce Recipe: (great on burgers & ribs)
 
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This Kansas City Style BBQ sauce is our family’s favorite BBQ sauce. It is great on ribs and chicken.
Ingredients
  • •1 cup ketchup
  • •1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • •1/3 cup sugar
  • •1/4 cup honey
  • •1/4 cup molasses
  • •2 teaspoons prepared mustard
  • •1-1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
  • •1/4 teaspoon salt
  • •1/4 teaspoon Liquid Smoke
  • •1/8 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
  1. In a small saucepan, combine the first 10 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat
 

 Happy Cooking,

jen

Apricot Sauce Recipe: Great on Ribs

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My hubby loves to make ribs!!   He has been tweaking his recipe for a while now.  While we love BBQ ribs, this Apricot Sauce makes for a nice change! 

Apricot Sauce : Good on Ribs
 
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It is nice to depart from the traditional BBQ sauce on ribs and chicken at times. This Apricot Sauce is great on grilled ribs and chicken
Ingredients
  • 3/4 C Apricot preserves
  • 3 T brown sugar,
  • 3 cloves of garlic, chopped
Instructions
  1. In a small saucepan, combine the first 10 ingredients. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat
 

 Happy Cooking!

jen

Spring in Minnesota……

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I had such hope that spring was on it’s way to Minnesota.  This is our view this morning….I hope we didn’t miss Spring under all this snow!  I certainly could use a few more sneak peaks at Spring! 

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April 23rd in Minnesota

The weather is suppose to warm up this weekend so I hope the snow melts quickly, but not too quickly, flooding won’t be much fun either.   I am heading to Northern Minnesota for the weekend, which I think will have even more snow.  The City of Duluth has had over 50 inches of snow in April so far. 

I have a feeling my time in Duluth will include alot of hotel time and room services!  I am sure the snow on Lake Superior will look lovely through the window from under my heating blanket 

Wishing you all a wonderful Spring Day!  If you happen to see Minnesota’s Spring….please send it to my house!!  I want to start planning my garden.

Happy Spring!!

Spring…..

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 Spring has not yet reached Minnesota.   We keep getting little sneak peaks of Spring…soon to be followed by snow!  It is April 22nd and is suppose to snow again tomorrow.  I am finding it harder and harder to find the beauty in the newly fallen snow.   This morning I can see grass in the front yard.  Tomorrow it will be covered in snow.  I am ready to feel the sun warming my face!   The robins have returned and are confused, but are weathering our weird weather.

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Tommy and I spend time in the morning enjoying the Robins in the crab apple tree.  They are eating last years berries and hoping for spring as are we!!  

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Tommy is continuing to enjoy taking pictures.  We discovered this odd looking robin at least we think it is a robin.  He has a odd speckle head and he was pretty mean to the other robins.  Have you even seen a robin like this???

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The next day the ducks came to visit to eat some bread we left in the front yard. 

Our weekend was very enjoyable, but much too short.  Tommy, Daddy and some friends went to MN United FC vs. Edmonton game on Saturday afternoon.   MN won 2 to 0.  Tommy loves his soccer games.   We finally found time to even buy Tommy new cleats, which we have been meaning to do for weeks. 

 On Saturday evening, we celebrated Grandpa’s 87th Birthday!

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The Birthday Boy!

He enjoyed his requested birthday meal of Corned Beef and Cabbage and his party with family, but was pretty tired and headed right to bed after the party. It brings him so much joy to be surrounded by his family! Certainly the highlight of the weekend.

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Our great nephew, Ryan came over to visit and celebrate Great Grandpa’s Birthday. It was great to see him. We had not seen him since Christmas. He is getting so big!

I just realized we will be having our first Great-Great Niece this year.  My nephews daughter is having a baby….it is amazing how families continue to grow.  Family is such a blessing.

Saturday was our day to run errands, purchase groceries and prepare for the upcoming work week. Seems the work week has arrived so I better get Tommy up and ready for school. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend with your families and chin up, I hear Spring might make an appearance this coming weekend. 

Blessings,

 

Weekend Fun….

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Grocery Shopping Weekend – We shop every other week for Groceries.  I find the less often I am in the store the less I spend!! This is how we feed 4 adults and 1 child for around $125/week.  See our weekly menu for an idea of how we eat.

First Stop……the bank to get cash for our various envelopes for the week. Funds put into the Grocery, the Fun and Grandpa’s envelope.

Next stop….the Library!! I love flipping through books that I read about or hear about. Much better than buying the books or hanging out in Barnes and Noble for hours!This week the following books came home with me…

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As you can see from the titles, I am still on my personal finance kick.  That seems to be how my reading goes…I have a few areas of interest and will switch between them throughout the year.  Must be my season for personal finances. 

 

Grocery/Household Supplies Totals

Bread Thrift Store         $ 14.12 (3 loaves bread, 2 buns, 2 hoagie, English Muffins and Bagels)

Aldi                               $ 98.24

Sam’s Club                    $ 82.58  (Paper Products, Corned Beefx2, Banana’s, Protein Drink for Grandpa) 

Walmart                        $ 41.51  (mostly food, but $8.00 for vitamins)

TOTAL for 2 Weeks    $236.45  /$118 per week

 

MURDER MYSTERY PARTY!!!!!  WHO MURDERED ANGEL WOOD?????

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What a group….shaking hands over a dead body!  Poor Angel Wood.

SUNDAY

A much needed quiet day at home after church.  Planning on cleaning a bit, blogging and reading!  Have to prepare for a busy work week.  Even found time to sneak in a LONG nap!

 

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!!

 

Blessings..