Cooking for a Crowd

I am a week late posting this. I hope my fellow blogger buddies will forgive my tardiness. I love to blog, but I also enjoy sleep. And since I've gone back to work again after having Lion Cub, I am tired. So if it's a choice between blogging and sleeping, sleep wins.

Because my Farmer had to sell 5 loads of pigs the morning of our Freeze-O-Ram I had to join my friends later in the afternoon. He was in charge of the kids for the few hours I'd be gone as I had decided I needed a few hours to myself!

I made Chicken Pot Pie. This is so very simple and freezes well! This recipe will make two pies.

Melt 1/3c butter in a pan. Mmmm...butter

Chop 1 cup of onions, carrots and celery

 

Saute the mixture in the butter until tender

Add 1/2 c flour and stir until smooth. Then add 2 c. chicken broth and 1 c. evaporated milk

Cook, stirring constantly, until thick and bubble.

Stir in 4 c. cooked chopped chicken, 1 c. thawed frozen peas and salt and pepper to taste

Place one ready made pie crust in a pie plate. Shape to plate. Add filling and cover with top crust.

Pinch edges together. Slit top crusts and bake uncovered for 30 minutes at 350. Then cover with foil and bake another 30 minutes.

The recipe is featured in The Freezer Cooking Manual. I got this cookbook while Freezer Cooking with another group of friends!

And if you are attempting mass freezer cooking with small children, I highly recommend they nap while you cook!

I Left My Baby Today

My heart was breaking as I left the house this morning. You have to have had kids to understand why I was so sad. Today was the first day I left my Lion Cub at daycare. I started feeling sick last night when I was packing bottles, getting the diapers together and finding some spare outfits.

I really have the best job in the world. I am so grateful to have a fabulous job to return to. But the first day returning is so hard. Thankfully I went to a meeting with a bunch of bloggy friends, many of whom are moms. So no one looked at me funny when I showed up with tear-streaked cheeks and red eyes.

I know it gets easier, but I miss my baby boy!

My Halloween Creative Costume Moment

It's not often that I get creative. If you read my Halloween craft post, you'll recall that I made ghost suckers and thought I was the most creative mom on the planet. Then my daughter brought home her Halloween snack bag and there were 5 other ghost suckers. So I'm not as creative as I thought I was!

I let my Panda and Monkey decide what they were going to be for Halloween. We're not big into the holiday. We don't decorate and I don't let them dress is scary costumes. This year they wanted to do a group costume, something that worked for all three of them.

My Panda loves Dr. Seuss! I've read Are You My Mother more times that I can count. She reads all of their books numerous times a night. So when we started thinking about what they should dress up as, we came up with The Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2!

I did buy my Lion Cub's outfit.  However, a trip to Goodwill and the fabric store let me quickly make my girls outfits.  Red pants and shirts, a few blue wigs, and two pieces of felt made the outfit complete.  They looked cute and were very excited to share their love of Dr. Seuss!