Avocado Bacon Grilled Cheese

Making grilled cheese for the kids for dinner? Want something a little more adult for yourself? Here you go. And can I say, delicious?

I made four sandwiches. I like to make mine right on the pan cause I'm messy and stuff.

So I butter my bread and get to work.

Use 2 whole avocados. Cut them up and put em on.

I cooked my bacon (we do ours in the microwave here, cause it's easier and a whole lot less clean up. Just put it on a paper towel on a plate and cover it with another paper towel and cook).

Add bacon.


Add cheese. I used mozzarella (wished I had used more).

Butter the rest of your bread and put on top. Turn on the stove at this point and start grillin' that grilled cheese.

And flip!

And eat! (See? needs more cheese.)

Ok, and this was one seriously delicious sandwich. But can you really go wrong with avocado, bacon and cheese? Nope.

Buffalo Chicken Rolls

The other night I brought something home before that has never entered our apartment. When Jamo saw it he said,"Coleslaw??!?".

Yup, I bought coleslaw for the first time ever. And do you want to know what I did with it? Well here you go, you lucky person you!

First I got some chicken. Two pieces was enough for the two of us. I have to remember to make my meals smaller when cooking for two. We lack portion control :). So I took my chicken breasts, put them in a frying pan, put it on the stove. I added some Frank's Hot Sauce, garlic powder, onion powder and some extra water as needed. Cook thoroughly.

Then shed the breasts. I do it with a couple of forks. Put it in a bowl, add some more Frank's Hot Sauce. Use as much or as little as you like. Just remember, the more you use, the hotter it will be. We like things hot around here. Then I added in blue cheese dressing to bring it together and make it most delicious. Again, add to you taste and creaminess preference.

Take a break to have a dance party with your baby! Giggles and smiles for all.

I just bought some refrigerated biscuits for this. You could always be an over achiever and make your own dough. Frozen roll dough would probably be good too. But I just used the small ones for these ones. I tried the bigger ones later, it worked too, just not so fun and bite sizey. Roll them flat, easy enough.

Top with cabbage/coleslaw mix (the kind next to the bagged salad, not the premade coleslaw in the deli section, just the greens), then top with the chicken mixture, then add cheese. I recommend the crumbled blue cheese, cause yum.

Wrap the dough around all of it. It kind get tricky, just make sure you don't fill it too full. And I like to have my biscuits thinner, better ratio after it's been cooked.

Put in oven. Follow temperature directions on biscuit can. If you make them thinner, take a couple minutes off the bake time. I think these were done at 400 degress for 8 minutes.

And then you're done. Eat them up! And I got to say, they were pretty tasty tasty. If you like the buffalo chicken wings, I would recommend this. And I got to say the coleslaw makings added the perfect crunch (all foods should have a crunch to them).

F.O.T.L.H.

On August 19th, our little family went to the Festival of the Little Hills. It's a festival down off the Missouri River in Old Town St. Charles. And tons of vendors and boyscouts and organizations come and sell their stuff. I was feeling a little cabin feverish after being stuck in the hospital for two days and then not leaving the house for another couple. So I took my silly recovering body, and my two boys out on an adventure. I've meant to go in years past, but have never made it. And I sure wasn't missing it this year. Plus, I had to test out my new insides. They worked well, in case you were wondering.

So we ate our way through the fesitval...

First Stop: Snow Cones

Second Stop: Burrito

Third Stop: Fried Twinkies

(I don't know why, but it keeps putting this picture sideways, oh well)

Fourth Stop: Soft Pretzels for Sheri and Bratwurst for Jamo

Fifth Stop: Funnel Cake

Sixth Stop: Fudge to take home

And my baby being awesome in his stroller

Dang It, Wrong Size.

Yesterday I went on the hunt for some new jeans. Mine seem to be a bit big for me now, with post baby weight loss. And I have some two sizes smaller, but not any in between. I must have wore those suckers out or something. So I end up at the Walsmart in the valley. And I brought in 6 pairs of jeans to try on. And then I put them in piles of yes, no, and maybe. Then James started crying and I got all distracted. So when I got home yesterday I had 2 pairs of jeans that didn't fit me.

So after having dinner with Jamo at A Better Burger (we got a groupon thing for it, yay!) we headed back out to the valley to exchange them. And I'm pretty sure I didn't get the same pair as I was going to. One of them was the same though. My brain sure does funny things now.

Also, Jamo got some a new shirt. Cause guess what?

JAMESON GOT A NEW JOB!

And isn't that just tremendously exciting? I mean, this is the type of job that could actually be a career or lead to a career. And were not complaining about the raise that's coming with it (stupid student loans). So he'll start that in a week and a half or so. And we're so happy he finally has a new job. As great as his current employer has been for the past 4 years, it will be nice for him to have an adult job where he doesn't have to work in a call center. So hooray for being grown ups!

Also, just a cute picture of my cute baby...

A Month and a Half

A month and a half of homework.

A month and a half to write a 25 page paper someone hasn't started.

A month and a half of scheduling your every hour of every day.

A month and a half until I see my husband again.

A month and a half until sanity is reclaimed

A month and a half until Jamo's graduation.


And a month and a half is all he has left, which is totally awesome. But this next month and a half is going to be one crazy time in life. Usually we just deal with this the last week or two of the semester, but now we're dealing with it the last month or two of the semester. But he really needs to buckle down and get things done. Graduation is fast approaching. It's like we can see that silly light at the end of the tunnel, but still so far. There's so much in between that needs to be done. But tonight we sat down and scheduled out the next week, down to the hour, on what and when Jameson needs to be doing things. We're trying to keep that stinkin' ox out of that stupid mire.

On a different note... we renewed our Costco membership tonight. I forgot how much you can throw down at that store in one visit. It was absurd! So we paid for the membership, money. We bought chicken, money. We bought turkey burgers, money. We bought a few baby clothes, money (but insanely cute). We bought a paper shredder, money. And then cash back, money (obviously). But I will say this, we won't need to buy chicken or turkey burgers for quite a while. And Jamo's been eying paper shredders forever. Plus we have things we want to shred. I think we might actually have to use our blue recycling bags :). So yeah, good times. And to end it, Jamo watched me eat pizza and ice cream.

And on that note. Jamo is going to end phase one of his diet, which is the drops plus insane diet. Next he just moves on to slightly insane diet. He goes off the drops, but gets to eat more. But it's still all the healthy stuff so you don't put on all the weight you just lost. He also can start real exercising (which we've penned in next week to his schedule :). But he's lost like 26 pounds or something, which is awesome. He's out of his extra fat pants and back to regular fat pants. So we're pretty excited around here. And the silly thing for me though, is that while he continues to get smaller, I continue to get larger. I'm still below pre-pregnancy weight, but probably not for long. But my belly is getting bigger, or at least more full. We call the hardness of my stomach my 'baby abs'. Anyway, I'm awesome.