January 9- cleaning, tacos and chicken

Today was a housecleaning day.  I vacuumed and mopped from one end of our home to the other.  

We have a steam mop but lately I’ve been going back to this mop and PineSol.  

This mop seems to get closer to the baseboard edges than the steam mop.  

I’m making a big batch of taco seasoning- a recipe I’ve been making for years. 

I add a heaping tablespoon of this taco seasoning to the cooked ground meat for tacos. 

My son has been sprinkling it on raw chicken and then grilling or sautéing the chicken and he says it’s really good.  

When my daughter had to eat gluten free,  she really liked that this seasoning has no thickeners with gluten like most storebought mixes do.  

And we all like the way it tastes.  

Supper tonight was chicken, green beans and corn on the cob.  

I marinated the chicken in dill pickle juice in the jar the pickles were in - it kind of looks like a science specimen in a jar of formaldehyde but it really does cook up delicious.  

Before 

After - half of the dill pickle chicken sautéing in a skillet. 

Below is the link for the recipe I used loosely - we like this recipe a lot but we can only make it after we’ve used a jar of dill pickles 

Dill Pickle Chicken  

❤️ Rhonda

January 8 - back to home stuff

Hello everyone 

Here are some of the things I’ve been doing this week

 

We needed some grated cheese and there were blocks of  cheese in the fridge so I got out the Presto Salad Shooter and grated a bunch. 

Then it went in containers and into the freezer and fridge for future meals.

Home grated cheese freezes great, as long as it’s not smashed down in to the container.

I made a salad and the tomatoes were so small,  I didn’t even half or dice them.  

When we set the bedrooms back up after the carpet installation,  many cans were stacked on this 15 inch deep lower shelf, in no particular order by some eager grandchildren.  

It looked neat but I couldn’t find the right cans when I needed them.  

So the same helpful grands unloaded that shelf and semi-sorted them this week.  

 

Then later,  I rearranged shelves and found better places for the cans and kept them sorted

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I got out a cross stitch project I started years ago and stitched a bit on it,  but I’d really prefer stitching using bigger hoops so I’ll get some soon. 

The current set are just 4 inch hoops. 

I finished reading   A Thread So Thin

It was good, not the best book ever but I’ll keep reading the series as I find the books.  

If 2020 and 2021 were muffins.............

This recipe was in today’s local newspaper. 

I like muffins for breakfast,

And I like broccoli and cheese for supper 

but I think broccoli cheese muffins sound like a very strange way to start off the morning 🤢

Hope your day is going better than broccoli cheese breakfast muffins 🙂

❤️ Rhonda