back to daydreaming

the week has been busy with work work work. we've been working hard to get some documentation done for a client, and today is D-day, so ready or not (right or wrong!), it's going out. i'm looking forward to a short day today.

i'm telling myself we will take it easy this weekend. all we have to do is the tour at the hospital tomorrow, and the bbq championship for dinner after that with mom and dad. i plan on staying in bed as late as possible tomorrow morning. i might even make it to 8am before i feel the need to get up!

bryan spent a good part of yesterday getting ramped up for halloween. in our old 'hood in atlanta, we hardly got any trick or treaters, and the majority that we did get weren't even dressed up in costumes. this always bothered him and he wanted to not give them candy. this year should be very different. there are lots of little kids in our neighborhood, and i have never seen kids trick or treating without costumes here. he has some plans for some crazy pumpkins; his plans involve power tools and road flares, so i'm pretty happy that our house is brick and can't start on fire too easily.

in other news... i managed to get another dinner into the freezer. i made a chicken and rice dish, so we'll see how that turns out when we bake it. i used whole, bone-in chicken breasts, which i seasoned and seared in the cast iron. once i took those out there was some lovely fat in the pan, and i'm not big on wasting that kind of goodness (waste not, terminate not), so i slightly softened some sliced onions in it, then deglazed with some white wine. i put the cooled chicken and onions with wine on top of *uncooked* rice which i had seasoned with salt, pepper, hungarian paprika, parsley, majorom, and thyme. i also tucked in some uncooked broccoli, and put in cubes of homemade chicken stock as well as half and half. i poured a little extra wine in there too, just for good luck. in theory, when we bake this, the stock, cream, and wine should get all happy, cook the rice, and poach the chicken. we'll see. this whole pre-made but generally uncooked frozen dinner thing is an experiment. even if some of these dishes fail, however, it's got to be better than delivery pizza.

only 5 1/2 more weeks to go before we will be diving into this stock of dinners! :)

and did i mention that last week when i made the roasted tomato soup there was enough to put in a freezer bag and stock away? the soup was really good, so i am looking forward to having that again.

going out of town for most of next week to present some stuff to a client. the 3 1/2 hour drive will suck as always, but we manage to have fun. not really looking forward to being away from bryan and the dogs though. :( at least the week should pass quickly.

that's it! i was boring this week and pretty much loved it. :)