Chicken Fingers

I went out to lunch with my parents and my fiancé (I went out to eat way too much the past few days).  I normally do NOT order chicken when I go out to eat because chicken is one of the few things I know how to cook.  However, the restaurant we went to has really good chicken fingers so I ordered them with sweet potato fries.  The portions, however, are huge so I brought some home.  Yay leftovers! 

A Gift and A Card

So I've decided to continue with my annual tradition and do 30 pictures in 30 days.  I started on Saturday Nov. 23rd.  I went out to dinner with my friend, her husband, and my fiancé.  She gave me a birthday present that night, which is Day 1's picture, my gift and funny card.

Dish 52

It's here!   The final dish in my 52 dishes in 52 weeks (or my attempt to make something new every week for a year).  I chose peanut butter cup cookie cups for my final dish.  It combines two things I love:  chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cups.  Yet, I'm sorry to say it was not as good as I'd hoped.  It wasn't bad, but I've definitely had better cookie cups.  :-(  Oh, well, you win some, you lose some.  I have to say I really enjoyed making new dishes--okay sometimes it was a little stressful trying to come up with something new, but I'm proud of myself for making new things.  I've expanded my cooking/baking.  I haven't managed to continue making a new dish every week, but I have tried some more new dishes.  Who knows, maybe I'll get motivated to do something like this again in the future.  Thanks for reading--and putting up with the fact that it took me well over 52 weeks to write about my 52 dishes.  Now I'll have to try to come up with interesting blog topics.  I think I may do 30 pictures in 30 days again.  That's a good one for the holidays.  Think I can actually do it in 30 days? lol  Here's hoping.  Happy Thanksgiving!   

Dish 51 Peanut Butter Flag Dip

All right people, this is ridiculous, it's NOVEMBER and I haven't finished writing about something from JULY.  I have two dishes left to do so I'm doing them now (well, I'll write them both now, but one won't show up on blog 'til tomorrow hee hee).  Way back on July 5th (for my 4th of July party), I made a peanut butter flag dip.  I'm not being full of myself when I say it was delicious.  People devoured this.  The main ingredients were peanut butter and cream cheese (don't ask me what else was in it because I don't have the recipe in front of me right now, but there were only a couple more things).  It's called flag dip because you shape it into a rectangle and put red, white, and blue sprinkles on it to look like a flag.  I would think you could shape it into other shapes and use it for other holidays.  As I sit here typing this, I'm seriously contemplating whether I could shape it into a turkey and use it tomorrow (though I really do NOT want to go near a grocery store this afternoon).  Maybe I can make it into a Christmas tree instead.  :)  I served it with pretzels.  Happy Thanksgiving to you all!  I'm off to see if I have all the ingredients for this dip and can turn it into a turkey--uh, that is right after I write about Dish 52.  :)