Team Focker Watch Chat - Version 7.0: It Slices, Dices and Rolls Up Socks

[jcc0621]

DO they come out in the right shape?

They sure do. I just wash them with everything else on whatever and air dry them.

Ditto, Jen!

 

[englishrose47]

Okay I made homemade beef patties in gravy served with rice and green beans , a different version of Banquet salisbury steaks !
Kat I would love to come to NYC but for sure the week before is out I possibly could come after on Sunday and Monday my days offI could prolly fly done saturday night !! This is all a maybe but I would LOVE to see NYC at Christmas !!MY dd really wants to see the Macy's Parade up close sometime . She has never been to NYC and me only once on a day trip to shop!!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Sounds good, Z. I emailed you a picture....

Ohhhhhh!!!! Snow!!!!!!!!

Thank you Mel

It's actually pretty cold here (I'm sure it's nothing weather to you), but to us Miamians I busted out the sweats and socks and slept under 2 blankets.

Busy week for me - prepping to be at The World all next week.

Morning V! Sounds like a great weekend and a great day at MK.
And I'm with T, green with envy for next weeks trip.

I'm hoping for low crowds in April. Sounds fun, meeting friends.

When in April Dawn?

T: How'd the organizing of the closets go?
I would've given an idea on a recipe, but as for steps and ingredients I'd be at a loss since I don't really cook. But my mom would've stewed (is that a word?) the chicken in a pot with the vegetables (mainly carrots) and potatoes and some spices and stuff and made some white rice. Which is my favorite meal from her that we call Arroz con pollo guisado (rice w/ stewed chicken). Yummmy!

Oh look I Googled a recipe:

Ingredients:

4 portions of boneless, skinless chicken breast
2 medium potatos
2 teaspoons of salt
3 tablespoons of sofrito
1 8 ounce can of tomato sauce
5 olives
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 ounce green bell pepper
2 cups of water

Procedure:
Place the chicken in a pan with ehough water to cover the chicken by 1/2". Add 1 teaspoon of salt. Cook at moderate high heat until the water starts to boil, then lower the heat to moderate and cook for 45 minutes. Remove from the heat and drain all the water. Let the chicken cool for approximately 15 minutes. Cut the chicken into 1/2" pieces and set aside.
Peel and dice the potatoes into 1/4" size pieces. Set aside
Dice the green bell pepper into 1/8" pieces. Set aside
In a pan add the sofrito, 1 teaspoon of salt, tomato sauce, olives, potato, green bell pepper, bay leaves, olive oil, and 2 cups of water. Cook at moderate heat until it starts boiling. Lower to moderate low heat and simmer for 20 minutes. stir once while simmering.
Add the chicken. Continue to simmer at moderate heat for 1 hour. Stir every 15 minutes.
Makes approximately 8 servings

Ingredients:

3 cups long grain white rice
3 3/4 cup of water
1 1/2 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoon of vegetable oil

Procedure:
Place the water and salt in a pan over moderate heat. Mix until the salt has dissolved completely. Add the oil to the water.
Rinse the rice and add to the water. Let it come to a slow boil. Move the rice once while the water is boiling.
When the rice is almost dry, set the heat to low, move the rice and cover it.
Let it cook for 15 minutes then move the rice. Cover the rice again.
Let it cook for another 30 minutes.
Makes approximately 6 servings.


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Ok, so I priced the tentative Dec. trip and it came out to $312 without the discount. Now I just gotta get everyone in line on the dates.

So I slept really good and woke up earlier than normal, so I'm here watching the movie Leatherheads and DISing.

Tomorrow I'm going with my friend Isis to a screening of Twilight! !!!!

 

[Muffinygood]

Oh, Kat:

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses is my fave Xmas song! Oh, and the Mariah Carey one. (All I want for Xmas is you...)

Here is the recipe for Quesadillas (in case anyone else wants to make them)

Chicken Mushroom Quesadillas

1-2 pkgs of small flour tortillas
2 lg. chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
1 8oz. pkg shredded cheese, your choice
1 pkg. of portobello mushrooms (I buy the large sliced ones and dice them)
1/4 C butter
1/4 diced onion
2 or 3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp. oregano
2 1/2 tsp. chili powder
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 C chopped fresh cilantro (which I leave out because Bob hates it.)

I bake my chicken in the oven at 365 for 25 mins. Then I shred it when it's cool enough to handle.
You can leave the oven on or see note below*******
Melt butter in skillet. Saute onions and garlic till clear.
Add diced mushrooms to skillet. Saute until cooked through.
Add seasonings and cook on med/low for 5 or 6 mins. (Just to make sure flavors blend and mushrooms are done)
Take off heat. Add in shredded chicken. Mix well. Add in the cilantro now if you are using it.

Lay out tortillas for the bottom, add cheese (to taste, I don't use much) then a scoop spread out of the chicken mixture, then a bit more cheese and a top tortilla.

*****You can prepare these quesadillas a couple of ways. I like to put mine on a cookie sheet in the oven and flip carefully after about 5 mins. I give them about 10-12 mins in there, just to get the tortilla crisp and the cheese melty but you could also cook then on a griddle or frying pan on the stove or on a grill!

I use my kitchen shears to cut into 1/4's. I serve with salsa and sour cream.

Hope you like them. There's a "REAL" recipe out there somewhere but it had WAY too many mushrooms for me, and I didn't like the prep. instructions so I just sent you the way I make them.

 

[Muffinygood]

That's for you Angela....

 

[KatGarcia]

Tomorrow I'm going with my friend Isis to a screening of Twilight! !!!!

Do you know I hate you now? LOL! I am actually going to the midnight screening wed night with KC and another couple! So excited!!!!!! Did you ever finish breaking dawn?

Oh, Kat:

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses is my fave Xmas song! Oh, and the Mariah Carey one. (All I want for Xmas is you...)

Here is the recipe for Quesadillas (in case anyone else wants to make them)

Chicken Mushroom Quesadillas

1-2 pkgs of small flour tortillas
2 lg. chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
1 8oz. pkg shredded cheese, your choice
1 pkg. of portobello mushrooms (I buy the large sliced ones and dice them)
1/4 C butter
1/4 diced onion
2 or 3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp. oregano
2 1/2 tsp. chili powder
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 C chopped fresh cilantro (which I leave out because Bob hates it.)

I bake my chicken in the oven at 365 for 25 mins. Then I shred it when it's cool enough to handle.
You can leave the oven on or see note below*******
Melt butter in skillet. Saute onions and garlic till clear.
Add diced mushrooms to skillet. Saute until cooked through.
Add seasonings and cook on med/low for 5 or 6 mins. (Just to make sure flavors blend and mushrooms are done)
Take off heat. Add in shredded chicken. Mix well. Add in the cilantro now if you are using it.

Lay out tortillas for the bottom, add cheese (to taste, I don't use much) then a scoop spread out of the chicken mixture, then a bit more cheese and a top tortilla.

*****You can prepare these quesadillas a couple of ways. I like to put mine on a cookie sheet in the oven and flip carefully after about 5 mins. I give them about 10-12 mins in there, just to get the tortilla crisp and the cheese melty but you could also cook then on a griddle or frying pan on the stove or on a grill!

I use my kitchen shears to cut into 1/4's. I serve with salsa and sour cream.

Hope you like them. There's a "REAL" recipe out there somewhere but it had WAY too many mushrooms for me, and I didn't like the prep. instructions so I just sent you the way I make them.

YUMMY...I am so making those this week!!!!! Thanks!

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I ended up finding some good Christmas compilations both old and new so I got me some good stuff! KC is not too into the xmas music but when we put up the tree I need some music! My very fav is The Chipmunks! I used to listen to the 8track w/ my mom putting up our tree!

I am cranky and debating opn making more pumpkin gobs for desert tomorrow when K's uncle is here. I tried to explain to him that he invites people over but I am the one actually doing the "entertaining". Urgh.

 

[sorul82?]

Did u not get my email??

No, I didn't. Did you send it to kmb0694@gmail.com ?

 

[sorul82?]

Oh, Kat:

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses is my fave Xmas song! Oh, and the Mariah Carey one. (All I want for Xmas is you...)

Me too!

 

[sorul82?]

Here's my Christmas song list:

Sleigh Ride (in the style of the Ronettes)
Santa Baby: Madonna
Mele Kalikimaka: Jimmy Buffet
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa: John Cougar Mellencamp
You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch: Whirling Dervishes
Step Into My Christmas: Elton John
Merry Christmas From The Family: Robert Earl Keen
All I Want For Christmas Is You: Maria Carey
Sleigh Ride: The Ventures
I Want A Hippo For Christmas: Shirley Temple
Christmas All Over Again: Tom Petty
Little Drummer Boy: Bob Seger
Run Run Rudolph: Bryan Adams
Merry Christmas Baby: Bruce Springstein
Sleigh Ride: Ralph Myerz Remix
Christmas Wrapping: The Waitresses
Christmas in the Caribbean: Jimmy Buffet
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies
Someday at Christmas: Stevie Wonder
The Man With All The Toys: The Beach Boys
Little Saint Nick: The Beach Boys
I Farted On Santa's Lap: The Little Stinkers
Carol of the Bells

 

[KatGarcia]

No, I didn't. Did you send it to kmb0694@gmail.com ?

i thought I did..... meh! I want in on the cards and ornament and secret santa!

OH and no "grandma got run over by a reindeer"??? I love that one!

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Do you know I hate you now? LOL! I am actually going to the midnight screening wed night with KC and another couple! So excited!!!!!! Did you ever finish breaking dawn?

Heee heee!
I'm gonna have to watch it a 2nd time though because there's a group of us @ work that had made plans to go see it.
I still haven't finished Breaking Dawn gonna have to plug my ears to not hear anymore spoilers. I'm still trying to finish the 1st Sookie



Ooooh I'm loving all these Christmas Compilations. I need to do one too. I had begun writing some down a few years ago.

Nat King Cole songs (Chestnuts roasting I think), some Sinatra, Mariah Carey's All I want For Christmas (is you), Bon Jovi has a nice Christmas one, also the song "It's the Most Wonderful time of the year" which was actually on the radio the other day on my way to work , and of course my favorite Weird Al Yankovic's "Christmas at Ground Zero"

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Here's my Christmas song list:

Sleigh Ride (in the style of the Ronettes)
Santa Baby: Madonna
Mele Kalikimaka: Jimmy Buffet
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa: John Cougar Mellencamp
You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch: Whirling Dervishes
Step Into My Christmas: Elton John
Merry Christmas From The Family: Robert Earl Keen
All I Want For Christmas Is You: Maria Carey
Sleigh Ride: The Ventures
I Want A Hippo For Christmas: Shirley Temple
Christmas All Over Again: Tom Petty
Little Drummer Boy: Bob Seger
Run Run Rudolph: Bryan Adams
Merry Christmas Baby: Bruce Springstein
Sleigh Ride: Ralph Myerz Remix
Christmas Wrapping: The Waitresses
Christmas in the Caribbean: Jimmy Buffet
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies
Someday at Christmas: Stevie Wonder
The Man With All The Toys: The Beach Boys
Little Saint Nick: The Beach Boys
I Farted On Santa's Lap: The Little Stinkers
Carol of the Bells

I love your list S'late. I like Eartha Kitt's version of Santa Baby.

 

[askelton]

Yeah, or she'd be on a plane with her brother to your house!

Good thing I have two guest rooms!

Ok, so I priced the tentative Dec. trip and it came out to $312 without the discount. Now I just gotta get everyone in line on the dates.

Book it Danno!

1/4 C chopped fresh cilantro (which I leave out because Bob hates it.)

Say it ain't so. That's one of my favorites.

That's for you Angela....

Thanks, I could live for a minute with that little snow.

I tried to explain to him that he invites people over but I am the one actually doing the "entertaining". Urgh.

They don't get it.


Harry Connick, Jr has a good Christmas cd too, When My Heart Finds Christmas.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

DUDES - I feel like a Scrooge! I loathe Christmas music, and my kids love it! They sing that stuff all year, which is probably why I can't stand it.

There is 1 song I like... Wonderful Christmastime oh and WHAM! Last Christmas!

 

[Goofyluver]

That's for you Angela....

That picture makes me cold. We were 70 degrees today.

 

[HomeschoolMama]

When in April Dawn?

4/26-5/3

Brrrr! I've been so cold in my house! It's so chilly in here- even with socks, jeans and my long sleeve Disney shirt (ala Mo's TR), my fingers are frozen.

 

[HomeschoolMama]

That picture makes me cold. We were 70 degrees today.

We were at 75 I think, but it was 34 this morning when I got up! I woke up to a nasty smell last night and it was our heater kicking in for the first time all season.
I wish it would kick on right at 7:28 every morning.

 

[brack]

DUDES - I feel like a Scrooge! I loathe Christmas music, and my kids love it! They sing that stuff all year, which is probably why I can't stand it.

There is 1 song I like... Wonderful Christmastime oh and WHAM! Last Christmas!

I love Christmas music and have it playing in my office now for a week. XM has a station called "Holly" that I listen too but I also have a very large collection of Christmas CD's.

I must say though that the two songs you listed are my least favorite.

 

[kykatt2]

What was the "special" price? I missed that ad.

$179.00 Best Buy is selling that same player right now.. for $299.00

Aww...that's so sweet. We do Toys for Tots every year. I let M&E pick out gifts for others. I think it's important for them to understand how fortunate we all are.

Something has really changed with her.... and I am liking it !!! She is also becoming a little Home School Momma... She is helping Joshua with his spelling... and LOVING IT... Joshua... Maybe not so Much.

Fine! I'll do the ornament exchange too! I hate to miss out!

Yeah...

I need some help with baseball hats! How do I wash them? I just cleaned my Mud Room and need to wash the ones I want to pack for WDW... but they are DIRTY from the summer.

Help!

I wash them in the washer and Shape them and let them air dry.. Look like new.

At least A's room is finally clean. After several hours of distraction and playing.

Uh was it he or Thee that was distracted

That's for you Angela....

OOOOHHHH SNOW... It "spit" snow today.. and to the West of us.. they are under a SNOW STORM WARNING... 6-8 inches...

I want some snow...

We were at 75 I think, but it was 34 this morning when I got up! I woke up to a nasty smell last night and it was our heater kicking in for the first time all season.
I wish it would kick on right at 7:28 every morning.

OOOH that First kick on of the heat is a nasty one isn't it ?? and The A/C in the cars is also bad.

Two dental checkup's today... NO CAVITIES.. so we were off to Chuck E Cheese.

Oh.. BTW.. if Y'all got an e-mail from Jo for those "throw blankets"... I ordered one for all of you !!! Merry Christmas Ladies

 

[Goofyluver]

I love Christmas music and have it playing in my office now for a week. XM has a station called "Holly" that I listen too but I also have a very large collection of Christmas CD's.

I must say though that the two songs you listed are my least favorite.

Ohhh..what channel on XM??