Saturday oh Saturday...

Sighh. It has been a long, tiring yet fun day of cooking... cooking.. and umm some more cooking. :) Yes, tonight was my night to do dinner and I feel like I have been in the kitchen all day. I haven't though. Only (haha yeah only) half the day. Yep it was a long day. What was I doing in the kitchen all day do you ask? Well, I can tend to be a terrible perfectionist when there is competition is present and there was plenty of competition therefore plenty of time needed to be spent in the kitchen. I decided to make a little dish of heaven called Chicken Ala Dolly. (I still have no idea why it's called that) I got the recipe from Jackie who got it from Mrs. Demi who made it up I think along with Mrs. Muir. Or so I've heard. Anyway that isn't what took me all day. In addition to chicken i made Almond green salad, Anadama Garlic bread (don't ask about the name), from-scratch sweet dinner rolls, mashed potatoes, steamed brocolli (It was going to be green beans but that is another story...) and a chocolate chip cheesecake with strawberries on the side. I got the cheesecake (It was a 5 star recipe) and the dinner rolls recipe from allrecipes.com, thank you Jen. :) Everything turned out ok minus the mashed potatoes. "They are to dry, flavorless, and not fluffy enough" says kt, the food critic of the day. Mashed potatoes have never been my favorite thing to cook.. for some odd reason. :P But the chicken turned out ammaaaazing and everyone loved it. And that has nothing to do with my cooking because if I didn't follow the recipe to the punctuation mark I probly would have burned it or something. Just like me. :) But I did bone, skin and de-fat it all by myself after a little instruction from Mom. It was a very gratifying experience though a bit messy and umm... gross. Ok very messy. And slimy. And pink. Anyway besides the chicken, another highlight of my cooking was the garlic bread. The Anadma stuff. Yes, well I got a recipe from our cook book for this bread thinking it would be a nice appetizer. (you know how in outback and stuff they give you bread and salad before your meal.) It was just about the only not-normal bread that didn't call for any wacko ingredients which we did not have. So I was about half-way through mixing all the stuff together when I realized we did not have anywhere near a half-cup of molasses, we barely had a tablespoon. So I scrounged the cabinets and found the thing that most resembled molasses, honey. :) Yes, I know they are very different but they are both gooey and besides bread can always use a little bit of sweetness. So the next thing you know I was adding all my favorite spices and ingredients to make my own special bread that was nothing like the recipe. It happens a lot with me. Anyway I decided I couldn't really call it it's original name, Anadama bread since it wasn't really that so I decided to call it Anadama garlic bread even though I probly only but a 1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt in it.:P It actually turned out ok probly because I let it rise for over two hours. But it didn't taste garlicky so I probly should have changed the name but oh well. Enough about the bread. My favorite was the cheesecake. Mmmmm. Cheesecake. I wonder if you can have cheesecakes at your wedding instead of cake cake. Cuz I think I might do that... haha watch my husband be lactose-intolerant. :) hehe. Anyway it was amazing. I spend forever on it making sure it was just perfect and didn't over-flow or burn or explode. And it didn't! ( A very surprising thing considering my cheesecake making history... ahhemm) The rest of the stuff would be a bore to talk about so that's it on the food subject. But before I do change subjects, thanks to Jackie for the recipe and Jen for the website! :) Now that I am changing subjects I guess I might mention a church plant meeting tomorrow which I am very excited about! It's going to be a ton of fun. Oh that brings me to the subject of my favorite house. :) Well, now it's under contract!!! Thank God! He is sooo good. :) We are going to settlement in mid-July and we will probly move in between August and November. :) So thank you all soo much for praying and if you think about keep praying that everything will go smoothly and we will be able to get everything in our house packed up semi-quickly. It is beginning to seem like a monster of a task. But God is still good! :) Well I really have to go now because this post is literally turning into a book and I have to go do laundry. :) Thanks for reading... 

<3,

Becky