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Julo23

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Holding pattern

Wow! I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything here. A long time, even for me.

It’s just that I feel mostly we’re in sort of limbo right now, waiting for the new arrival and preparing to move house a few weeks later. It is just now hitting me how crazy it is to have planned to do that. Not that we really had a choice.

Life recently has been a blur of scheduling/doing work that needs to be done on the new house, working with the landlord on showing this house (as she wants to be done with the landlord business), going to OB appointments, chasing after a busy almost-3-year-old (whose birthday will fall right in the middle of all the chaos), and sort of living in denial.

I am also roughly the size of a small rhino but lack that animal’s grace, agility and speed. I sort of lumber through the day like a half-hibernating geriatric grizzly bear. Quick to anger, but slow on the uptake.

The heat doesn’t help. At this point, all I want to do is sit in bed with a giant glass of ice water. But, for obvious reasons, this isn’t an option.

I hope to have more interesting updates soon…

Mayo17

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Chicken salad, chicken tacos, chicken alfredo

(Vegetarian and vegan friends, stop reading now. Though I assume the title alone was enough to send you running.)

Just learned to perfectly poach chicken breasts using my rice cooker’s ‘slow cook’ function. You are looking at a whole new H-A Housewife.

I started with totally frozen boneless chicken breasts. Half an hour (and several edited webpages) later, I had moist, cooked, enchilada-ready chicken. (I love multi-tasking. Count getting the Kiddo down for a nap, and it’s like I’m two people! Sort of.)

I got the idea from a cookbook on slow cookers that recommends poaching them in a traditional crockpot for six to eight hours. (Also, you’re supposed to cook seven pounds of chicken at once. Hello!? I’m not feeding the Duggars!) As I knew the Sanyo‘s ‘slow cook’ option is more like a slow cooker on steroids, I reduced the amount of chicken and guessed on the time. Score.

Steps involved: Put frozen chicken in cooker; add broth; close cooker; set timer; press button. Possibilities are endless.

Chicken sandwich, chicken gumbo, chicken burger …

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