VICTORY!

It was excellent! Not only was the Chicken Pot Pie (CPP) delicious, it was one of the prettiest meals I've ever made! My Ingredients: 1 Pie Plate from Grandma Craig, Frozen Mixed Veggies(Semi-thawed), 1 can of cream of chicken soup, 1 can of chicken broth, garlic, S&P, Parsley, EVOO, Chicken Breasts(not pictured) and 3tbs of flour.

In the left bowl I have mixed the veggie, CofC and 3 chopped cloves of Garlic, in my Pyrex measuring cup you are looking at 3/4 cup of chicken broth, 3 tbs of flour and my S&P&Parsley. I used about a TEAspoon of each, but to each their own. Next you want to cook your chicken in a skillet in the EVOO and the remaining chicken broth (see below for more details) while it's cooking, unroll your now room-temp pie crust. One roll into the bottom up your pie pan. When the chicken is cooked, add it to your creamy veggies, dump it into the pie shell and cover with the broth/flour/seasoning mix.

Cover your filling with the remaining pie crust, pinch together along the sides and cut slits in the top so your CPP can breathe :-)

Insert your CPP into a 400 degree (PREHEATED!) oven and set your timer for 40-45min. I needed 45 for mine.

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!

Remove your CPP.

Slice, Serve, ENJOY!!!

I did do a few things differently than the recipe:
1. I used chicken cutlets instead of whole chicken breasts.
2. I cooked my chicken breast in the skillet WITH the remaining chicken broth. I thought it might help keep my chicken moist and it did! Please forgive me, I didn't take a picture of the chicken cooking because I took that time to pick up some of the crap laying around in our living room before Coach got home.
3. Because the chicken was so juicy, I was able to break it apart into big chunks with my fingers and that made the pie feels much more "homemade"..."Authentic"... you know, "not nearly as processed as it actually was!"


Love and Peace friends! NCIS and GLEE tonight :-) Relax on the couch with some red wine and Chocolate-it's good for your heart, and your soul...speaking of Chocolate, I was feeling so pleased with my CPP I even made a batch of box brownies to finish us off :-)

Monday Night Meal

Coach and I eat together every night. I'm home from school between 3:30 and 4:30 and he gets home from Football (Yes, even in the winter) at 5:30 every night. Coach is soooo picky. Not about his food, he will eat anything...he just doesn't like to eat after 6:30pm. He claims that that is NOT a dinner time and even if he's starving-he won't eat at 6:31pm.

I know that by serving dinner at 5:30 sharp I am only enabling his whiny ways, but I'm trying to pick my battles and honestly, by 5:30 I'm hungry too :-)

Here's my plan for tonight:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,easy_chicken_pot_pie,FF.html

I'll let you know how it goes....Hopefully better than the Chili from January (YIKES!)

To Do....tomorrow...or Monday...

1. MY TAXES
2. Organize the football office.
3. Plan a baby shower.
4. Laundry.
5. Shave my legs (summer is coming and this whole "every few of days" thing isn't going to fly anymore)
6. Work out (I lost another 4lbs this week, VICTORY!)
7. DON'T spend a PENNY this week.

What's on your "TO-DO" list for the weekend and week?

Love and Peace on a rainy, Rainy, RAINY Saturday afternoon in SOKY.

My very special people.

In 3rd grade writing, the kiddos are beginning to learn the basics of Powerpoint. As a favor to our 3rd Grade writing teacher, I created a kid-focused, kid-friendly Powerpoint on a special person in my life. As I was creating this "oops I almost forgot" PP I started to think about all of the people in my life who are special.

Last night I went over to a friends house to watch the new episode of Modern Family (if you don't watch it- you should- sooo funny!) and while I was there for 90 minutes we managed to catch up on everything under the sun; our families, our love lives, our diets, shopping, vacations, God, TV and Ice cream :-) How special is this relationship that after 7 years, 10 boyfriends, one HUGE fight and countless sleepovers we can reconnect in just a matter of minutes?!

We're the only ones left living here in Bowling Green. Most of our other friends from college moved home/away right after graduation so we see each other more that we see a lot of other people but it just doesn't seem to be enough. Last night she said, "Sometimes I feel like college never even happened" And I have to tell you that when I get caught up in my day to day routines I feel the same way too. It's so sad, they are some of the most FUN years we will ever have. So I consider myself very lucky to have a friend who brings me back to college and reminds me on a Wednesday night, over a Southern Lady magazine and an episode of Wednesday night TV that College did happen, that it wasn't nearly as long ago and we think and that most of all, WHAT IS PRECIOUS AND WHAT IS PERMANENT IS ALWAYS THE SAME.

Love & Peace (And AOT to my sisters) on this sunny Kentucky Thursday!

A new celebrity for the list :-)

Found this great list! Made me very proud of my new License Plate and Driver's License!

Abraham Lincoln

Brian Littrell (from BSB, yum!)

Loretta Lynn

Diane Sawyer

Ashley Judd

Robert Penn Warren

Muhammad Ali

Rosemary Clooney

GEORGE CLOONEY!!!!!

Daniel Boone

And now there is one more Kentucky Celebrity to add to this list...ME!

Coaches Weekend

This weekend is Nike's "Coach of the Year Clinic" in Louisville Kentucky. My Coach and his fellow para-pro's are enjoying a couple of days of coachly socializing and a few seminars

(I always wonder if they really attend any of those or if they just chat it up with other coaches in the Galt House lobby...hmmm)

Typically, this clinic is on Valentine's Day weekend however, this year Valentine's day was on a Monay (as you know) and so the clinic fell on the weekend ahead of us now. And this year, I'm joining Coach for the 2nd half of his football weekend. It's like our own little Love-Bird get-away and it's a dream for Coach, because he gets to spend half of it with football ;-)

The plan is to leave with my friend Jamie (also a Coaches wife) around 1pm and head north. We're hoping to meet up with another Coaching couple for dinner in the Ville and then hit the town. Because we're staying in town we'll be celebrating V-Day on 4th street. I haven't been down there since college so I'm looking forward to it! I'll let you all know how things go!





Happy BELATED Valentine's Day. Love <3>

Shared Spaces

In May when Coach and I joined our homes, we combined a number of items.

-Our clothing, we now share a closet....a tiny little mouse hole of a closet.

-Our cleaning supplies, Coach uses generic, I prefer my Windex.

AND

-Our bookshelf.

Have you ever head that "you are what you eat!"? Well, I have decided that even more so, "you are what you READ."

Coach is a Coach in every area of his life. He is, of course, a Coach to his Football players. He's young and a little juvenile (if I do say so myself) so they relate well :-) He is a Coach in his classroom everyday. And his is also a Coach to me. He encourages me, supports me, cusses me, and keeps me working hard. And All of this Coaching is reflected in his reading.

*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

*The Golden Dream by Gerry Faust

*3 Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger

(Coach's Shelf)

I am a emotional person. I make 90% of my decisions with my heart. I allow my gut to guide, like so many other women do. I am a teacher, a believer, a friend and a writer. And I love weddings. (Day of Inspiration!) My shelf in the office, says just that :-) Included on my Shelf are,

*Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

*A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans (No Relation)

*The Knot: Book of Wedding Gowns

*Essesntially Lilly Holidays (I love Lilly Pulitzer and every thing she stands for!)

(My Bookshelf)

What does your bookshelf say about you?

Love and Peace- may you all stay dry and warm this week. My friends in Chicago are preparing for a doozie!