Row Cover

This weekend, I tried starting the season early with a row cover. I transplanted cold weather greens and sowed radishes, peas and beans directly into the soil.

Wish me luck that I can keep everything alive:-) Playing along with Wordless Wednesday at 5 Minutes for Mom and Wordful Wednesday on parenting By dummies:-)

Organized Basement

Do you know how disorganized a  space can get during a remodel. Well, while we were redecorating our new family room, our storage area took a HUGE hit. This weekend, we organized it..AGAIN!

Now, I have room for another project!!!

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Adobo-Marinated Chicken Quesadillas

Chicken breasts gain a smoky richness and a little heat from marinating in adobo, a tangy Mexican chile sauce.

Pick N Save is helping me out with cheese on sale and I am pairing it with coupons and coming up with the tastiest money saving around! It is normally $1.68/cup. and I got it for $.99/cup. to make my featured recipe today.


Adobo-Marinated Chicken Quesadillas
Ingredients:
1 can (7 ounces) chiles in adobo sauce
1/2 cup water
4 chicken cutlets (4 ounces each)
1 small red onion, thinly sliced
2 jalapeno chiles, stems removed, thinly sliced crosswise
1 cup rice vinegar (not seasoned)
1/4 cup sugar
8 eight-inch flour tortillas
5 oz low-fat Monterey Jack cheese, shredded (1 1/3 cups)

Directions:
1. Puree chiles in adobo sauce and water in a blender until smooth. Pour mixture over chicken to coat. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

2. Meanwhile, place onion in a small bowl. Combine jalapenos, vinegar, and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, and cook until jalapenos are soft and sugar has dissolved, about 10 minutes. Pour over onion, and let stand until mixture is cool. Strain through a fine sieve.

3. Heat a grill pan over high heat. Grill chicken, about 2 minutes per side. Slice into strips. Wipe pan clean.

4. Place 1 tortilla onto a work surface. Arrange strips of 1 cutlet to cover tortilla. Sprinkle with 1/3 cup Monterey Jack cheese and some onion-jalapeno mixture. Top with another tortilla. Repeat with remaining tortillas, chicken, cheese, and onion mixture.

5. Carefully place quesadilla onto hot grill pan, and cook over medium heat until tortillas are crisp and cheese melts, about 4 minutes per side. Cut each quesadilla in half, and divide among 8 plates. Cut into wedges.

Servings: 8

Cooking Times
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Inactive Time: 1 minute
Total Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Nutrition Facts
Serving size: 1/8 of a recipe (5.1 ounces).
Percent daily values based on custom values.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients. 3 of the recipe's ingredients were not linked. These ingredients are not included in the recipe nutrition data.

Amount Per Serving
Calories 265.56
Calories From Fat (30%) 80.32
% Daily Value
Total Fat 9.11g 15%
Saturated Fat 4.54g 41%
Cholesterol 52.82mg 26%
Sodium 352.61mg 15%
Potassium 217.54mg 6%
Total Carbohydrates 24.09g 11%
Fiber 1.24g 4%
Sugar 6.95g
Protein 20.85g 33%

Recipe Type: Chicken, Healthy, Light Meal, Main Course, Mexican

Source
Source: Whole Living
Web Page: http://www.wholeliving.com/133321/adobo-marinated-chicken-quesadillas


Recipe Cost: $7.53 ($6.30 on sale and with coupons)
Serving Cost: $.94 ($0.79 on sale and with coupons)

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Faye At Play Encounter

This is more of a local post so, for my friends in other parts of the country bare with me.

This weekend, I went to a fund raiser for our school district. (A PTO President's work is never done:-) Anyway, they had a jewelry dig hosted by Faye. She is the owner of a local high end boutique and appears frequently on a local talk show that I watch everyday. She has got the best fashion sense and to be honest, I have a little girl crush on her.

Anyway, I went to her table to partake in the dig when she ran up to me and slipped this on my wrist. Isn't it cute? I was wearing a black wrap dress and must have looked completely under accessorized but I didn't care. It worked with my outfit:-)

She was the sweetest thing to me and in that brief encounter with my girl crush, I felt all high fashion:-) My new goal is to drop 80 more pounds to buy something awesome from her shop. By then, I should have enough saved to afford it too:-)

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New Family Room

Well, it is finally done. Starting this summer with this:

Has ended with this:

Doesn't that look like a cozy spot?

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