Monday Cafe 11-24-08

Kilroy, glad you had a good weekend with George. Waves to everyone! CM, it is hard to believe that you are possibly just two weeks away from Abbie making her appearance! Get your rest now while you can!!!

I’m going to seek something warm and comforting for lunch!

You guys should know by now that I’m always sharing receipies, here’s one I made last night, it’s one of my family’s absolute favs, and it’s one of those “you can’t screw this up” type of receipe!! Kids love this!

Perfect Baked Chicken & Rice

8-10 pieces chicken thighs & legs

4 ½ cups chicken stock bring to a boil

2 cups regular white rice

Thyme 1 tsp. finely chopped

2-3 cloves garlic finely chopped

1 large onion rough chopped

1 lb. sliced fresh mushrooms

Salt, pepper & brown chicken on both sides; set aside. Saute onions, garlic & mushrooms. In a greased casserole dish pour 2 cups rice then add the onion/mushroom/garlic mixture and the fresh thyme leaves. Once stock comes to a boil, pour over rice and stir. Add in chicken and cover tightly with foil. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes. Turn temp down to 350 and bake for 45 more minutes. Comes out perfect every time!!

As a footnote – you could use pieces of turkey if you like, for someone who wants a simple Thanksgiving – this could be your one pot wonder! Add a salad and you’ve got dinner!~

hands Metsa a steaming mug of chocoate…. two torties run over purring loudly… what did you do?

hi metsa, i know, shameful to live in the uk and never have been to scotland!!

hi cm, hope you are nice and rested after being poked in the belly to get pics of Abigail. and i agree with cm and av, what did you do for the dunces cap metsa?

Good morning, afternoon or evening (whereever you are in the world). I have been busy with a few things this morning. It has been a bit confusing here at work what first being given some responsibilities and then told they are not mine yet. I am a little frustrated but will keep it to myself for now till they figure things out.

Had a nice family get together at my parent’s house last night. My uncle and cousin are in town for the week of Thanksgiving. We celebrated my Step-Grandmother’s 88th birthday. She is on oxygen and also has a pacemaker. When I saw her last night, she looked really pale and exhausted. I am concerned that her health is not good but at least her she was in good spirits giving everyone kisses and hugs while sitting in her wheelchair. I will see her on Thanksgiving with the rest of my family except my sister and her new husband as they will be visiting at her husband’s family for Thanksgiving.

GD, please take care of yourself. You sound like you have a nasty cold and we don’t want that to get worse.

Kilroy, I am glad you had a good weekend with George. Nice to be woken up to a purring cat. Sylvester and I had our morning loving. When I went to say good-bye he started purring again. It was almost like he was saying don’t go, we aren’t finished here with our morning fun.

Hello again! sorry, didn’t mean to leave you wondering, I left work just after I posted :). I needed to pour some liquid and I needed it no more than 60 degrees C, but it had just boiled and was at about 90. So I ran a glass bottle full of extremely hot liquid under the cold tap…. At least it made a lovely cracking noise! lol!

I’m leaving for work in a little bit and need to take the pups out. I’ll try to check in from the gym if noone’s around.

I’m here! Not much going on at the gym. DQ, who seems fed up and ready to quit again, told me they are thinking of leaving the front desk unmanned for the first 4 hours of the day (6-10) – they must be either out of their minds or out of money!

Speaking of money, I didn’t get paid today, because EBL was gone for the day when I got here. She’d better leave me a check tomorrow!

I usually give EBL an invoice every 2 weeks with my numner of hours and a total for her to pay me. She’s only not paid me on the day I gave her the invoice once. I gave DQ my invoice to give to EBL tomorrow, so hopefully she’ll leave a check for me tomorrow. If not I WILL send for Emma!