LV requested chicken strips for dinner on New Year's Eve. He said that 2007 went really well after we started it with chicken strips, hence we should repeat.
We didn't repeat with champagne, though. Instead we picked out a bottle of sparkling grape-apple juice with Scrappy. I think she's the only child I've ever met who hates sweets. You would think we asked her to drink turpentine when we toasted the new year.
I never thought it would take so long to make Swedish meatballs again... But here we are like a year later with the encore of Swedish meatballs. Just as well received the second time. After Scrappy claimed she had never had them before. It's been a long time.
We waited until the last minute to make cookies for Santa.
But it was actually less stressful than last year, the first time we attempted gingerbread cookies.
Before rolling out the dough and baking the cookies, Scrappy had to make it through dinner: steak with an assortment of vegetables.
Green squash, tomatoes, onions, celery...
In an attempt to come up with something good for dinner at the last minute, I pulled out rotini, tuna, cashews, capers, milk and corn starch. Then I told Scrappy that it was like Tuna Helper. Except better.
Now, I wouldn't say that I sabotaged the store-bought cake to make sure that my homemade cake looked just as good on the blog... But I can say that b/c it wasn't me who put the ice cream cake in the refrigerator instead of the freezer after buying it.
This is what ice cream cake looks like when you let it sit on the counter a little too long...
Me and a bottle of pinot grigio made this revival of Italian wedding pasta the night of a company holiday party. Luckily, the leftovers are quite tasty...
Our grocery store only sells two kinds of chicken breast--really thinly sliced pieces that always look like filets of fish on this blog or thicker pieces still stuck to the chest cavity of the chicken. On this day, I decided to sautee the chicken just as fast I normally would, but this time used more than just salt and pepper so that it actually look like chicken--not fish.
LV's quiet birthday consisted of Domino's Hawaiian thin crust pizza and a freshly baked homemade 99-cent cake. Mmm... If only I hadn't tried to frost the cake 20 minutes after it came out of the oven. (We were sort of crunched for time--Scrappy had to go to bed.)
We were supposed to decorate the tree, so I made chicken nuggets with frozen artichoke hearts. "Frozen artichoke hearts" are as bad as they sound. Even worse when they're a generic brand.
