Another week to eat!

Boy oh Boy! Last week was insane! And this week looks equally as busy and crazy! But thats just fine with me. I love being busy. I know I complain about it when I am busy but then I get a really slow, laid back week and by noon on Monday Im going stir crazy! So I guess Ill take busy over bored any day! at least my days go by really fast.
  So here is what the Pisko household is eating this week.
Monday - BBQ Chicken and Curly fries
Tuesday - BBQ Chicken Pizza
Wednesday - Waffles! (Or Boston Pizza!)
Thursday - Baked Pasta
Friday - Egg Sammies (I have been craving eggs like mad lately! in the last 2 days ive had three egg sammies! I dont know whats going on there!)
Saturday - Pizza at Jaxons pool party
Sunday - Leftovers

Family Favorite!

Sorry for the sporadic posting this week. Life has been insane! No kidding everything that could possible be going on is and life just gets crazier anc crazier.
  But I thought Id take a moment and share one of my family favorite Recipes.
I love bourbon chicken/shrimp. LOVE IT. Did I hear a gasp from the audience??? (what a mormon who eats food cooked in alcohol?!?) Get over it... all the alcohol burns off in the cooking process. So Im totally fine with it. But I have never been able to make my own version since while I am totally fine eating food cooked in alcohol, I can not bring myself to by wine or in this case bourbon. So Ive never been able to make my own... until now! My mom found me a Bourbon chicken recipe... that has no bourbon. I know... I as sceptical too... but exists and tastes great. Here is the recipe... but I changed it to make it my own.


2 lbs chicken breasts, cut into strips.
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp ginger
1 Tbsp crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 cup apple juice
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 Tbsp Ketchp
1 tbsp Vinegar
1/2 cup Water
1/4 cup Soy sauce

Cook the chicken in a pan. Bring all the other ingredients to a boil in a pot. Once the chicken is cook pour the sauce over the chicken and simmer, stirring every so often for about 10-15 minutes.

A Fun Idea

I have insanely talented friends. I am constantly blown away by all the mad skills that they have. One of my super cool friends organized a group of us into a card exchange. We just exchanged cards last night and gave out the next assignment, so I had to share what a great idea I thought it was. Here is how is works... You get a group of friends together (in my group there is 12 of us) You give out a card theme assignment (last month we did Birthday) then you each go and make 12 cards of the said theme by the time you next meeting (we meet once a month) Then you all give everyone one of your cards and you then leave with 12 different cards! Its Awesome!! I was not only impresseed by the mad skills my ladies have but also the creativity... they were all so different! I cant wait to exchange cards again next month!

Menu time

Oh sundays... I like you alot better before 1pm church! My two little guys survived... but just barely. Ok.. Jaxon was fine but Owen was a monster... as always... Nursery will be a headache for us for a while Im sure... awesome.. so onto better things... FOOD Here is what my family will be enjoying this week
Monday - Buffalo chicken salads
Tuesday - Morrocan Cubanos
Wednesday - Ravioli
Thursday - Tandoori Chicken
Friday - Chipotle Pork Tacos
saturday - BBQ Chicken Pizza
Sunday - Leftovers
  Also Im going to apologize in advance if I dont blog all that often this week... Its insane here... I have Jaxons party to get ready for in 2 weeks and Tim has a late meeting and I have stamp club and now that Im in YW (which I love) I have an activity and I have a totally awesome girls night... and that just my evenings My days are as insane as always as I will be volunteering both Wed and Friday this week at Jaxons preschool (again another thing I love) and music class and a hair appt and chores, etc etc etc... oh the life of a mom!

Japanese grilled Chicken

This is a tasty quick recipe that I picked up from one of those quick meal ideas shows... Fixing Dinner... or something like that. I really like it and its super simple. Which is what I always like to do on a saturday... because I dont know about you but I always wake up saturday morning feeling very ambitious and make a HUGE to do list and truly believe I will get it all done... and well its now early evening and I think Ive accomplised 3 things on the list.
  A little side rant here... its Jaxons birthday in a couple weeks.. we are having a HUGE swimming party... I have been working on cutting out 36 mini favor boxes all day! It SUCKS...they better turn out they way I want them too... jobs like this make me wish for a silloutte.

Japanese grilled Chicken

1 egg

1 Tbsp Paprika

1/4 cup Honey

2 Tbsp sesame oil

2 Tbsp Soy sauce

1 Tbsp lime juice

12-16 boneless skinless chicken thighs (I use a few chicken breasts instead)

Stir all ingredients (except chicken) together. Add chicken, turn to cook and refrigerate over night. Preheat grill and cook chicken until cooked through.

Here is a freezer meal tip for you... I often take all these recipes that have chicken in a marinade and make them up in freezer bag, add enough chicken for a meal (in our house thats 3-4 pieces) and then put the bag in the freezer. Then you just have to pull it out and the chicken marinades as it defrosts. 

Greedy Zebra

We are at the start of another month. Which means my boys got a new book a few nights ago. We are still keeping with our african theme and this month they got Greedy Zebra. Its a great story. Its about how all the animals get there different coats. One animal finds a cave full of all sorts of colored materials and horns adn feathers and furs and tells all the other animals to come and make themselves splendid new coats. But Zebra is too busy greedily eating the grass and leaves while everyone is away so by the time he finally makes it to the cave all that is left is some black strips. hence how the Zebra got his stripes.
  I am loving this series of books because the artwork is AMAZING.
Hopefully this story will help at bed time tonight as I am on my own this evening... wish me luck!

Finally

I am a Reader. I love books. Because I am a reader I insist on reading the book before I watch a movie based on a book. So I read Holes, and loved it. I borrowed the movie version from the Library (I love libraries) I was not expecting great things. Lets face it... Movies rarely (im tempted to say never) do the book justice. This is one of the rare instances when I can say FINALLY a movie was as wonderful as the book.
I LOVED THIS MOVIE. It was just as cute and sweet at the book. The acting was good. And it was clean! Not once did I feel bad watching it with my boys in the room.
  I wont go into the story line of the movie because it matched almost exactly to the book. they even had most of the exact line. AWESOME.
  I really dont have much to say because if you read my post about the book you know what I think of the movie as they were equally as good.
 GO WATCH THIS MOVIE... its sweet