Cooking and our meals so far.

So it took me 6 hours to cook 28 meals on Saturday. But everything fit in our freezer which I was pleased about.

Sunday, we had the sloppy joes which were DIVINE! I never realized how easy it is to make homemade sloppy joes...and they are so much better than the canned stuff!

Yesterday was the King Ranch Chicken casserole. Note to self - take food out of freezer the night before to thaw better. It took twice as long to cook because it wasn't fully thawed yet. Again, another amazing recipe though. It was sooooo good...slightly spicy and very yummy. I am really looking forward to this process going well:)

OAMC

So I have a new project. It's called Once A Month Cooking. Basically, you spend one day cooking food for the entire month and freeze it. You plan meals for every day and take them out to thaw the night before. The recipes usually require you to just throw them in the oven or on the grill. Basically, it does away with the prep time of cooking. I am pretty excited to try this. One, I think it will save us from wasting food like I feel like we do sometimes by forcing us to only buy what we are preparing on cooking day. Plus, I am really bad about feeling like cooking sometimes after work. If all I have to do is throw something in the oven, it will save time and will be tons of less work. We will probably supplement some of the meals with salads or another type of steamed vegetable.

There are actually websites devoted to this type of cooking. The nice thing is that there are tons of recipes that have already been tried and are sure fire for being good for freezing.

So....Saturday is cooking day. I purchased some of the meat today at Dash's because they had some good sales (can we say chicken breast for $1.88/lb!!). I plan on getting the rest of the supplies tomorrow. The recipes are all pretty simple in terms of ingredients but are still pretty healthy. This means good meals at low costs. Below is the list of stuff that I will be making. I will be updating to let you know how the food turns out when we eat it.

1. King Ranch Chicken Caserole
2. Sloppy Joes
3. Wine and herb Chicken Marinade
4. Lemon Parsley Marinade
5. Chicken Enchiladas
6. Beef Stroganoff
7. Spaghetti and Meatballs
8. Meatloaf
9. Honey Baked Pork Chops
10. BBQ Pork Sandwiches
11. Stuffed Pork Chops
12. Grilled Fish
13. Blackened Chicken
14. Caribbean Jerk Chicken
15. Pizza Dough for homemade pizza

Vinnie

So Kyle and I are officially on the road to buying a horse! We are doing a full lease on Vinnie and part of that money will go toward his final purchase price. Then in January, we will pay the remaining balance and receive his papers. Then he will be officially ours! Until then, he is technically ours in everything but the papers. This means I can go and ride whenever I want:)

Us vs. the bikes

So we had plans to do a trail ride today for our riding lesson. We got half way down the road when some bikes came towards us. Chip, our instructors horse freaked out which made the rest of the horses freak and Kyle ended up in a ditch.

The worst part was that the bikers didn't even stop. I swear, if it had not been for Anna yelling at them and the guy in the house on the corner stopping them, they would have continued going with no concern for the people on the freaking out horses and the guy that fell off his horse into the ditch. Asshats! I swear.

Oh...Kyle is ok.

Watkins Glen Camping

Kyle and I went camping on Labor Day weekend and it was a blast! Watkins Glen is absolutely beautiful! On Saturday, we had plans to visit a bunch of wineries on the Seneca lake trail...however, we only made it to six before we had to cut ourselves off! I think my giggle fit is what did us in.

Our ginormous tent!

Kyle at the one winery he didn't try...he was my DD

The Watkins Glen Harbor...I love boats and the water!

The epic cribbage tournament that I won

The gorge is just amazing!

One of the 19 waterfallsUs at the HarborThe wines we came home with.