ShannonAlbert.com - June 2009

Although I went to dinner w/friends, I made dinner for Andy and the kids before I left. Only two more days to go in my promise to cook our food everyday! Today's recipe was for enchiladas. Andy said they were good so I'll take his word for it since I wasn't here to eat it.

Slow Cooker Enchiladas
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Enchiladas/Detail.aspx
My suggestions: cook them in the oven for 90 minutes at 350 or so and use only one can of soup.

Chicken and Bacon Shish Kabobs
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken-and-Bacon-Shish-Kabobs/Detail.aspx
My suggestions: this recipe is great as is and is the best tasting chicken ever! We actually did it in the oven instead of the grill and it worked well.

Apple Cinnamon Turnovers
http://recipes.tasteofhome.com/eRMS/recp.aspx?recid=10868&r_d=y
My suggestions: we were out of applesauce so I replaced it with butter. I'd prefer to have used the applesauce but it worked well w/the substitution.

After not cooking at all last week, I cooked this weekend and vowed that we won't be eating out at all until Friday. Here are two recipes that I made.

Shrimp Etoufee
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Shrimp-Etoufee-III/Detail.aspx
My suggestions:

• Instead of water, use chicken broth.
  
• It probably won't take the whole 20 minutes for the celery/green pepper mixture to get tender. I only cooked mine for 10 minutes.

Cabbage Rolls
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cabbage-Rolls-II/Detail.aspx
My suggestions:

• Double the sauce mixture.
• Before taking the leaves off of the cabbage, either freeze it and let it thaw overnight (this wilts the leaves and makes them easier to work with) or steam the cored head of cabbage (leaves will be softer and easier to work with).
• Serve with mashed potatoes and corn, using some of the tomato sauce over your mashed potatoes.
  

Payton attended a school "dance" on Friday evening that was just like school dances we remember except that they required them to all wear the same t-shirt, all had to wear jeans or denim skirt, most parents stayed, there were silent auctions and a build-a-bear station. Ok, I'm being sarcastic and may be the only parent who thinks it was absurd to call it a "dance" instead of a school festival. The kids were really looking forward to having their first dance but I don't think it should have been sold that way to them. Nonetheless, here's a picture of Payton and her friend Kristen before heading out to the "dance."

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For my last interview with Blake, I told him which letters to write for his answers. This time he sounded it out and wrote it all himself.



Translation:
1.) Jo and Blue (Joe and Blue from Blue's Clues)
2.) Andy
3.) No (no favorite uncle I guess?)
4.) Takx (Texas)
5.) 10000000 (10 million - the amount he'd like to have he says)
6.) No (I'm not excited about it either :( )
7.) MRS PDO JUBDR (Mars, Pluto and Jupiter)

It poured down rain today and the kids went out to play in it. They were completely drenched but had a lot of fun.