Tonight I decided to cook something special for dinner I’d never tried before. I cooked chicken cordon bleu, rice, peas, gravy, and dinner rolls. We had company for dinner, so it was really nice to have something special like that turn out so good! I’m getting to be a pretty good cook, if I say so myself! I think cooking is actually quite a bit of fun, if you can get people to eat what you cook without acting like you’re trying to kill them!
My uncle stopped by the other night to tell us about is newest venture, he is buying a franchise called Five Guys and is going to sell hamburgers and fries. I love their food and told him I would Probably be one of his best customers. He told me to tell all my friends and come on down when he is open, He even offered me a job, but I said no I was to busy.
We have been talking about installing an outdoor kitchen in the back yard, near the swimming pool. I think that would be a really cool thing to do! They have been looking at the Werever products on the Internet. They are made of a special marine grade polymer material that does not warp, rust, chip, crack, or peel. It has a lifetime warranty and looks gorgeous! These weatherproof cabinets are made to be kept outside all year round. They come in several different styles and colors, too, so you have a lot of flexibility in designing the outdoor kitchen of your dreams!
I was cooking dinner the other night. The meal was half cooked and I went to check it. As I opened the microwave, which happens to be one of my favorite tools for cooking, I discovered that the dish was still cold! I checked all of my settings on the microwave because sometimes I have the microwave set on defrost and I don’t always remember to turn it to cook. This was not the case. The microwave setting was on “high” but the food was not getting hot. I reset the microwave again, just to make sure that I hadn’t made a mistake and left it for another fifteen minutes. I could hear the microwave humming, and I went back to doing something else. Well, the timer went off, I went to the microwave, opened it up, took out the meal, it was still cold! I was very upset! I was HUNGRY! I didn’t have time for this! I immediately pulled a pan out of the cupboard, put the meal on the stove and poured some water in it, dropped in a couple of hot dogs and made a mental note to go to Wal-Mart in the morning and buy a new microwave!
My mother asked me to cook supper tonight, she wasn’t feeling very well. I asked her what she wanted me to cook and she said “whatever.” So I know she REALLY wasn’t feeling well. So I scrounged around the kitchen to see what I could come up with. Something a little bit different than what we eat. I felt like experimenting. So I found some skinless chicken breasts in the refrigerator that had a “use by” date of tomorrow, so I decided to pull them out and use them.
Then I went to the pantry and was looking around. I found a can of Healthy Request Cream of Chicken soup, and a can of Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom soup. I pulled them out. I rinsed off the chicken and cut it into strips and put them in a covered casserole dish. Then I opened the cans of soup and poured them over the chicken, put the lid on and cooked it at 350 for a half hour. While that was cooking I cooked up some minute rice, some dinner rolls and some veggies and we had a great meal! I’ll have to cook that again sometime! Definitely put that in my recipe box!
