63 posts tagged “vox hunt”
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack time... Show us one of your meals today.
Sure, here you go...Dinner
Herb Parmesan chicken, lemon sage risotto and green beans. Yep..there's a reason we're all chubby.
Oh and my new favorite secret ingredient (that's no longer a secret) lately is Good Seasonings Italian salad dressing mix only I don't mix it, I use it dry. I've been putting it on everything. Tonight it was on the chicken, last time I used it on oven roasted potatoes..the stuff is incredibly versatile. However, it costs $1.49 for one pack of it at my grocery store so I found a copy cat recipe you can make at home, if you like that stuff as much as I do...
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon carrot, grated and finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon red bell pepper, finely minced
- 3/4 teaspoon mccormick lemon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1 teaspoon salt or
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 teaspoons dry pectin
- 1 pinch ground oregano
Directions
- Place the carrot and bell pepper on a baking pan in an oven set on 250°F for 45 to 60 minutes, or until all of the small pieces are completely dry, but not browned.
- Combine the dried carrot and bell pepper with the other ingredients in a small bowl.
- The mix can be stored in a sealed container indefinitely until needed.
I can't wait to try it. Plus if you make it yourself, you can make it your own.
Show us the cartoon character that annoys you the most.
The best thing about no TV afternoons..no more Sponge Bob, they don't show those in the morning. It's not that I hate the show, either, it's that they only made about five of them and they play them over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....I wish they'd bring back shows like Catscratch, at least that one's funny.
Now I wish that Cartoon Network would mix it up a little bit in the morning (They've got Fosters Home..why can't they play that in the morning..I love that show). I never thought I'd get sick of listening to Tom and Jerry. Tom hasn't been able to catch Jerry in over sixty years (Yeah, that cartoon started in the 40's! I looked it up.), it's time to throw in the towel.
Show us a glimpse of your neighborhood.
Submitted by [Susan].
This is the view as I peek out my front door. That's as far as I'm going, too, because that's not fog, that's smoke and it smells horrible. I can't wait till they put out those fires....
Show us the very last picture you took. No cheating!
With my regular camera...
Yes...that is a cat on a leash. Nathan's anal and worries she'll run away. I hope he lightens up a little bit before he becomes a parent or he'll have the most sheltered kids on the planet.
On my cell phone..
Yep...it's a Hummer with a Longaberger type basket thing covering the spare tire...as if Hummer's aren't ugly enough as they are. I wonder if it helps with the gas mileage.
Show us what you're working on right now.
Submitted by yygall.
I'm working on trying to find out what the heck is eating my tomato plants..the only thing I've ruled out so far is zombies.
Look at this poor little guy..yesterday it was a plant and now it's nothin' but a nub..
This one didn't fair much better..
Any other ideas would be appreciated. I've got to hurry up and figure this problem out..I've got heirloom tomato plants being delivered next week and I don't want them eaten by anything but me and not until they are in tomato form.
Show us a spice in your kitchen.
Submitted by homebody.
Just one? Sorry, that won't do.
This is the killer spice rack DeWitte made for me for my spice cabinet (yep, my new kitchens got so many cabinets, not only do I have one just for spices, DeWitte's got one just for his ibuprofen (two every two hours), vivarin and vitamins. He stops by that cabinet every time he's in the kitchen.)
You can get the canister things with magnets on the back at Bed Bath and Beyond for a couple bucks each. They hold about a jar of whatever spice you want to put in them. Then he got the metal sheet from the hardware store and attached it to the inside of the door and bam..I've got myself a groovy spice rack that saves a ton of room.
These are the poor unloved spices that didn't make it onto the rack..I feel sorry for them sometimes.
Notice that somebody didn't put the top back on the wasabi powder. I won't name names but if I did it would rhyme with BeWitte.
Then I've got these fresh herbs that I got at the farmers market last weekend. I put them near the herb garden and then promptly forgot all about them. I had to bring them in and soak them in the sink.
The rosemary, basil and thyme came back pretty good but I don't think the Italian parsley's gonna make it. Poor parsley.
Show us a tattoo.
Surely!
I just bought these at a kick ass toy store we stopped at in Winchester Va.
I also got one of these..
Show us something cheerful.
Submitted by Alex.
Sure..how about this,
DeWitte brought these home at lunch today and, as far as I know, he hasn't even done anything wrong! I usually have fresh flowers in the house but normally I buy them myself, so this was an unexpected treat.
Show us the inside of your freezer.
Sure, Vox, anything for you...
At the top are two half gallons of ice cream that people keep at my house. It's not actually my ice cream, it's DeWitte's friends, Danny's, ice cream but he likes to have ice cream every where he goes so he keeps some at our house, too.
Below that is a bowl of ice that DeWitte just put in there. I thought he was taking the extra to work (the ice maker makes it faster than we use it.) but apparently, people from other parts of the building have been coming over and helping themselves to his work ice and that pissed DeWitte off. You never know what's gonna make him mad, so watch out...Oh, yeah, don't use their bathrooms, either. Get your own damn bathroom!
Below that is some random crap, it looks like some frozen rolls and maybe a pack of chicken and some ice cream drum sticks (they must be a weird flavor because those things rarely last around here.) and a HUMONGOUS ham. Actually, there's a lot of ham in there, it's DeWitte's favorite food so I buy it on sale and freeze it because not only do you never know when DeWitte's gonna want toast, you don't know when he's gonna want ham either, and I like to keep him happy (see the ice thing above...can't have that happen to me.). Anyway, the HUMONGOUS ham was given to me by my girlfriend next door. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with a ham that big but I didn't tell her that, I just said thanks.
On the shelf below that is a bunch of soup and stuff that we didn't finish the first time and we didn't finish the second time so in the freezer it goes. Oh, and some meat balls. I made these pork meat balls and tasted them when they were still raw because I saw them do that on TV and I was curious. Well, after they made me throw up all night, I froze them out of spite.
In the last drawer is a turkey I got on sale, I'm not sure what I'll do with that either but I couldn't pass up the price, a bag of frozen guts from last years Halloween maze and my emergency vegetables. Those are the vegetables I use if I didn't make it to the store.
On the door is a bunch of butter, also bought on sale (sales and my freezer go together like peanut butter and jelly.), some random stuff and a cat. I don't usually keep a cat in the freezer but if she doesn't stop hopping in there every time I open the door, I might not have a choice.
Pretty exciting, huh?
Show us something wacky.
Well, I could but I'm not there yet. I had a wacky idea this morning. See, I'm making Eggplant Parmesan for dinner because that's what they made on Throw Down with Bobby Flay on the Food Network last night and it looked really good. Bobby lost, if you care. This would have been a lot easier to achieve if my grocery store actually had any eggplant, but they didn't.
Oh, side note. When you're in the twelve items or less express lane in your bunny slippers and I'm in a hurry because Nathan's gonna be home in fifteen minutes, breaking your stuff up into six or seven smaller twelve item orders when the casher tells you it's express is uncool...you aren't fooling me or the people behind me, just go to the other line. Thanks!.
Where was I..that's right, Eggplant Parmesan without any eggplant. I'm gonna drag Nathan to the fancy grocery store when he gets home, I know they'll have it. I'm also gonna make homemade pasta to go with it. Now, if you lived at my house, you'd notice something glaring missing from this menu. Protein..that's how all the fancy chefs on TV say meat. Well, I'm not putting meat in Eggplant Parmesan just because someone is going to complain, because I know someone is going to complain. However, I'm gonna sneak it into the pasta just so I can have a comeback..that's right, I'm making chicken pasta. Not chicken coated pasta but chicken flavored pasta. I figured what the heck. I've made tomato flavored pasta, spinach flavored pasta, herb and cheese flavored pasta, I've even seen them make squid ink pasta on TV, why not chicken?
I looked around online to see if there were any recipes but I couldn't find out anything about it...see, I'm like a pasta pioneer! (Ok..I know I can't be the first person that ever thought of this, but give me my three seconds of feeling proud.)
Alright, fine. If that doesn't work for you how about this...
Now, I'd better go make my dough.
