Dinner Challenge: Nights 17 and 18

Well it's going to be an interesting time in our lives, I can already tell.  Mason has started singing along to songs lately which is soo cute, his current favorite is Dynamite by Taio Cruz.  The problem is a lot of the songs that are on Scott's Ipod are not child appropriate, we found this out today when Mason started saying bad ass and f-ing nightmare.  Nightmare is right!  We just ignore it and definitely don't play those songs again, I'm thinking of buying a few classical CD's to play when we are in the car together, they say that can help make children smarter and obviously we need to undo the damage that we have already done!

Night 17

For this dinner I fixed biscuits and gravy.  I also fixed bacon... well it was turkey bacon but it still counts.

We found packaged biscuits that are all natural without any preservatives or artificial anything, they were actually very good! I also used turkey sausage in my gravy, not the best, but it beats all the fat and grease in regular sausage.

For gravy:

Brown sausage in large skillet.  Add about 1/4 cup of flour, sprinkling it over the cooked sausage.  Stir around and cook for a few minutes, letting the flour get absorbed into the sausage.  Add salt and pepper (lots of pepper).  Pour in about 2 cups or so of milk.  Cook until it begins to simmer, simmer for about 5 minutes or until gravy is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. 

Night 18

I have a fear.

That fear is under cooked chicken.

To overcome this fear I frequently cube up my chicken breasts before I cook them so I know they are done.

Like this:

Then to make them tasty I coat them in Dijon mustard.

Like this:

Then I brown them in a skillet, doing my best to be rational and stop cooking them before they are briquettes of chicken.   Tonight turned out pretty well, still juicy, but done!

Mason's plate.

Notice the shredded cheese.  This is his new obsession... it's messy to say the least.

My plate.  Just chicken.

I'm prepping for all the pizza I'm going to consume during the Super Bowl.

Scott's "salad"

Look at all that dressing.  I wonder what that does to his insides?