Basically the title of this post explains exactly what I've been up to the past little while. Adventures to San Diego and Vegas, Shakespeare plays (starring my VERY talented siblings) and getting back into cooking.
I have to apologize to my friends and family that have mentioned my lack of posts. The only excuses I have are a) I'm still getting used to posting on a blog. I always forget I have one! And b) I really haven't had anything new to post. BUT all that has changed my friends. Back to blogging I am (hopefully ;])
On Tuesday, May 3 Jared and I decided to surprise my family with a visit! So Wednesday we picked up and went on that 11 hour road trip. It actually didn't seem that long at all! When we got there they were so surprised they didn't even recognize us for about 5 seconds. My own MOTHER, lol. Just kidding mom :)
Our trip consisted of the Mormon Battallion, beaches, sunburn, Shakespeare and best of all, time with our wonderful family. Friday and Saturday was the kids Shakespeare plays. Trinity, Houston and Austin were absolutely amazing, not to mention really funny. I can't believe all of those kids could remember those lines in Shakespearian language. Congrats you guys!
We stayed through Mothers Day and left on Monday so we could stop in Vegas for a couple of nights. It was so fun but the main reason we wanted to stop there was to see Phantom of the Opera, and tickets were CRAZY expensive... so we pretty much just hung out at the pools and went to see all of the sights. I don't think I could ever get tired of Vegas. For those of you who think Vegas is a horrible place to go and a "City of Sin", come with us and I assure you that you'll think differently!
After our long trip, we finally came home this past Friday. After almost 2 weeks of not cooking it was SO hard to get back and actually cook something, which is VERY out of character for me. I love cooking. It's one way I can make my husband happy and improve myself. I love it when I take something out of the oven/crock pot/pan and it turns out amazing. There is nothing better to me than when Jared tells me how good something is and that he loves me (aww... sappy I know). Which brings me to tonights dinner, which was actually pretty good and one of the only meals I've cooked this week and I wanted to share it!
If you've never heard of the "A Year of Slow Cooking" blog you need to visit it. She has really great recipes for any day. I found this one yesterday and had to try it, and the finished product was very good. Here's my version of it, just a few tweaks.
For this recipe you'll need...
--2 pound chicken
--3 small potato, cut into small chunks (optional.)
--1 red onion, diced (optional)
--1 cup corn
--1/2 to 1 bottle of your favorite barbecue sauce
--1/8 cup hot water
cornbread topping:
--3/4 cup corn meal
--1 1/4 cups of flour (I used a Bob Red's Mill GF mix--we were out of Pamela's)
--1 cup milk
--1/4 cup sugar
--1 egg
--1 tsp baking powder (only if using regular all-purpose flour)
Spray the inside of your stoneware with cooking spray. Cut up the chicken and potato, and add to the crock. Add the corn. Add bbq sauce, and then add 1/8 cup of hot water. Mix well with a spoon.
In a separate bowl, mix together the cornbread topping. You don't need to mix well. Spread the topping on to the chicken mixture. If I do this one again I'll probably half this and only put it on half of the bbq.
Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Mine was done in 3 because I used a 6.5 Qt. crock pot and I browned the chicken beforehand.
Hope you like it! Sorry again for being M.I.A. for a while there. I'll try and be better!
Britton
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