Breakfast for dinner disaster

Just a disaster. I burnt 4 of the pancakes, and all of the eggs. At least the bacon was adequate. What was to be pumpkin pancakes, omelets and cheddar cheese and strips of bacon turned out to be a few edible and okay pancakes and some bacon, no husband home in time, a huge burnt pan mess, and me feeling very crappy. You can't win them all. At least my little one came over and said, "Mama, don't be sad!" and gave me a big hug.

Boo-licious Dinner

I am back! Really busy, long and hard month. Time to start a new one. Welcome November! But back to October for this post. Halloween dinner...I had ideas of black spaghetti noodles with cream sauce and orange bell peppers with sauteed chicken in wine. But that was too much work to tick or treat and cook. So I used the oven! I popped a whole chicken in the oven with 2 onions, 6 cloves of garlic, baby carrots, thyme, salt, pepper, olive oil and Dr. Pepper. That's right, I said Dr. Pepper. Oven on 350 and out the door we went to get our Trick or Treating on. Three hours later, I took the chicken out added mushrooms and orange bell peppers upped the temperature to 410 and back in in went and I started a some white rice and 20 minutes later is was awesome. The sauce reduced, the peppers and mushrooms cooked and the chicken rested. We where famished! My favorite part is the orange and black Halloweeniness of it! I love Halloween!