Fast and easy recipe.
Boneless skinless chicken breasts
Lemons
Lemon Pepper
Chicken broth
Olive oil
Diced onion
Season chicken breasts with lemon pepper, add olive oil to pan, add chicken. Zest and juice 2 lemons right in the pan. Put the squeezed lemon halves in the pan and cover.
When the chicken is cooked, take out of the pan and drain the "poaching" liquid. Add some butter to the pan and put the chicken back in. Brown the breasts in pan uncovered. When the chicken has some color. Take out of pan, set to the side to rest. Saute diced onion.
Add enough chicken broth to bubble up all the pan drippings. Taste...then add enough reserved lemony "poaching" liquid...to your taste. To thicken make a cornstarch slurry (1T corn starch and enough water till looks like white school glue) add to make a pan sauce.
Serve over buttered egg noodles or rice. Yum. My family really liked it. I hope you give this a try. Could be made in under 30 minutes.
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
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26 years ago today, we were married. It was a beautiful day. We had our pictures taken at the Eau Claire Dells, a county park. The "pearl" necklace I am wearing was my "something old" it was my grandma Ritchie's necklace. My sister Lynn helped me make my wedding dress. I spent hours hand sewing on the beads. We both were 21.
We said "we do"
We sure "did"
Thru thick and thin (that's me... lol)
Loss and pain
Sun and rain
Debt and gain
We have been blessed
Here at Dicky Bird's nest
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
Week 15 - Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies
1 1/2 c flour 1 t baking soda
1 t salt
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl
1/2 C shortening 1 C creamy peanut butter
1 C brown sugar 1/3 C sugar
Cream together add:
1 t vanilla 1 egg
mix and add dry ingredients slowly
Spray your cookie sheet. Roll dough into balls, press an indent with the back of a 1/2 t measure spoon. Fill each with 1/8 t peanut butter and 1/8 t jelly. Bake 375 for 10 min. Makes 4 doz.
The creamy peanut butter baked on top makes these cookies really peanut buttery, if that is a word. I hope you enjoy.
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
Some day, I plan to write a book about the interesting neighborhood I grew up in. Are you familiar with the movie "Big Fish?" Well, I would consider the stories behind some of our neighbors to be similar to the characters in that movie.
Today, I will share one of them with you. Esther and Frank Pizon. They were an elderly couple that lived down the block from us in an apartment. Esther had suffered with diabetes that left her an amputee. She had an actual wooden leg - yep, wooden. She did get a "new" leg later on that actually looked like "real" and made of hard plastic. Her husband Frank, survived a stroke that left him unable to speak. He was a sweet, kind gentleman. He loved to walk and did so daily. When he would pass by, I would say "hi Frank" and he would always raise his good hand and point and wink as if to say - right back atcha.
Esther and Frank would come over to our house daily for coffee. My mom would host many a neighbor - daily - with coffee and treats. Looking back on it now, that was her ministry.
Esther, in order to support her and Frank, was given the opportunity to sell their crafts at the Commission on Aging. This department had a Talent Shop in Wausau and still does, where you could support the elderly and disabled by buying their items. (here is photo of the Talent Shop in Wausau, WI - now located in the Goodwill Store in Rib Mountain, by Walmart and Aldis)
Esther, developed arthritis in her hands that left her unable to embroider faces on her dolls or do small hand sewing. This is where my mom comes into play. Esther "hired" my mom to do these tasks for her and then she would finish them up. I can remember Esther dropping off all kinds of projects for my mom to help her with. They actually made some really cute items. The felt cardinals I make now is actually a pattern from Esther.
So, on with my Motivation Monday quote. This is something Esther would say EVERY day - she would drop off her bag of work for my mom, drink her coffee, have a treat and visit. Upon leaving she would say...."well, Dode (my mom's nick name) keep busy, but don't work too hard."
Esther was a regular in my life from a time I can't remember - till her passing when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Hearing her say that phrase every day was something I grew up with. It wasn't until later in life - like recently - I can appreciate what that quote means. It's genius actually.
You can wrap up a whole lotta something in that quote. Who better to say it; the wife of a stroke victim, an amputee who suffered from arthritis. She did live by it too. She was always doing something. She was old...really...and not just because I was little and every one was old - she was old. To think on it now, I actually am inspired by her work ethic.
So, today, whether you are home with a bunch of little ones, or racing between work and little league, or nursing home visits with your parents and high school games with your kids, or just sitting on the couch trying to get up the ambition to wash your dishes.....remember....."keep busy, but don't work too hard." Esther Pizon
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
I had a really nice day rummaging with my daughters! We found some great deals. I just had to share this story with my followers. Look what I found:
I was so excited that I held up this bag in the middle of the garage; I turned to the ladies at the check out and said "who's the hooker?" Several ladies in the garage whip their heads around to look at me - including Anna who says "Mom!" Come on ladies - "rug hooker?...." No one said anything...that would have been received with laughs at any fiber arts/folk art event. Those ladies didn't get my humor!
Now I have yards of strips to make my pins - yay!
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
More with Martha, the little hen who wants to make a nest on my porch. She is getting broody. Here she is sitting on the cat's pillow and blanket - again.
She "lets" me pet her - as long as I don't try to take her egg
Yesterday, it rained on and off all day. That wasn't stopping Martha as she sat on that pillow all day. So, last night when we returned from church, I had to pick up - an ever so wet hen - and carry her back to the chicken coop. What a silly girl! She didn't even have an egg...
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
You know, many women who are in the stage of life that I am in, become depressed or feel a loss of purpose. An empty nest is something I thought was years away....boy, how time slips up on you. I've been pondering these things lately, looking at other women who are in the next stage of life and then it came to me, I actually had a "light bulb" moment, I'm in a pretty "sweet spot." Thank the Lord, I'm still young enough and healthy enough to enjoy new things in my life.
I have had so many things that I have wanted to do over the past several years, but been unable to. Life and the choices I made at those stages, pushed back some of my desires. I wouldn't change it or trade those experiences for a million dollars. Those stages and choices helped me to see how "sweet" this spot really is.
The time we are given on this old earth, really is a gift. We can choose to squander it or invest it. I choose - invest.
Whatever stage of life you are in - crying babies, temper tantrums, soccer mom, sassy teens, single or working mom - embrace it and enjoy it. Life stages go by fast, don't miss out on the lessons they offer, the sorrow and joy.
Blessings from Ringle, Wisconsin.
