Saturday, May 03, 2008

1. The Crock Pot Indian Chicken: we both liked it a lot. Instead of the yogurt, I did use coconut milk. I also cooked the rice in half coconut milk, half water. It was delicious. I think that next time I need to use more seasonings to counter the sweetness of the coconut milk since yogurt is not nearly as sweet. More garam masala and I might add some curry powder to it as well. I cooked 8 frozen chicken breasts on low for 5.5 hours and the pot reduced to warm where it sat for another hour since Beau came home later than I expected. It was perfectly cooked.

This is definitely a repeater and Beau suggested we consider it as one of our dinners at Disney. Jaynee, would you eat this? Oh, and Jesse loved the chicken - shoveling in the pieces I gave him as fast as his 8.5 teeth could handle.

2. LOST: Thinkling Bill’s live-blog recap is here. Be warned that it is spoiler heavy since he does live blog while watching the show.

3. The Office: This is one of the most uncomfortable TV shows to watch. Michael is such a loser. Ryan is a loser. I’m glad Jan is gone - she always annoyed me. Toby is sad. Jim is awesome as is Daryl (who is hilarious). Pam in her glasses is my hero.

4. Housecleaning: The plan is to steam clean the basement and Jesse’s room carpets today. We’ll see if that actually happens.

5. The Other Boleyn Girl: Yes, I’m still listening to it. I have 3 discs to go. I think after listening for a whole day last week that I overloaded. And I forgot to take the CDs back out to my car. So I started a new book in the car and TOBG languished in my home office all week. I listened to 2 discs yesterday. I’ll try to listen to more today. But really, I’m pretty much done with it - it’s way too long.

6. I am part of a family of freaks. I say this with total love. Here’s the deal - we have a long history of getting into arguments over where we will eat when we eat out. So the amazing thing is that so far in the Disney vacation planning we have not had any arguments about this. We have reservations for lunch at all of the parks already, except for Epcot - I’m sure we’ll get into it on that day because all of us are interested in eating at different countries. But a new debate was started yesterday.

I had suggested that we celebrate Mother’s Day together on our vacation and we gals have been trying to figure out something we can do together while the men watch the kids for a couple/few hours. One suggestion was a spa day or mani-pedis. Then Mom suggested we do tea at the Grand Floridian and a whole new can of worms was opened. Jaynee isn’t interested in tea at all. Dad is interested in going to tea. I think Denis and Beau are neutral on the idea. So now I think some of us might go to tea (on the same afternoon that CG goes to her Alice in Wonderland tea also at the Grand Floridian), but we still need to come up with a gals outing for the Mother’s Day thing. Cracks me up.