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Chicken Pasta Bake 2008-05-12 11:31:32 Chicken Pasta
Bake is on of my mother in laws specialities, but I have taken the recipe and changed it a bit and added bits here and there.
Ingredients
4 chicken breasts
2 cans of condensed chicken soup
1 1/2 cups white wine
2 large onions chopped finely
6 bacon rashers chopped up small
500g of pasta
Small can of sweetcorn (or any [...] Read more:Chicken
Menu Plan Monday 2008-05-12 06:17:13 Monday - Chili Enchiladas
Tuesday - Baked Potatoes with Cheese and Bacon
Wednesday - Baked Potatoes with Tuna Salad Mayonnaise
Thursday - Chicken Pasta Bake
Friday- Chicken Pasta Bake
Saturday - Shepherd’s Pie
Sunday - Shepherd’s Pie
When I cook a pasta bake or a shepherd’s pie (two of our favourites), they normally last 2 nights as there is only my husband [...] Read more:Monday
Hubby’s Simple Chili (very easy) 2008-05-11 12:17:32 My husband is king chili maker and last night was one of the best, I’ve added his very own recipe :)
Ingredients
500g lean steak mince
2 cans chopped tomatoes
3 large onions
3 red and 3 green chillis
2 beef stock cubes
2 chicken stock cubes
5 cloves garlic
2 jars pinto beans (or kidney)
a lot of mild chilli powder… (personal taste)
teaspoon cumin
teaspoon [...] Read more:Hubby
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Ultimate Twice Baked Potatoes 2008-05-13 13:54:01 Ingredients
3 large potatoes (or as many as you would like)
6 slices of streaky bacon, chopped
2 medium onions, chopped
1 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp mustard
grated cheese for the top
olive oil
salt and pepper
I normally drizzle olive oil, salt and black pepper on top of the potatoes before I bake them so the skin goes nice and crispy. Bake at [...] Read more:Ultimate
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Being married and pregnant at 23! 2008-05-13 04:24:49 I think that I have always been very maternal. As a child I loved dolls and had so much fun babysitting. I sat for my 2 younger brothers and also close friends of the family or neighbours. I think the urge to be a wife and a mummy has always been very strong in me… [...] Read more:married
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Latest bump picture! 2008-05-15 10:20:38 Do you think it’s possible that it could get any bigger? I think my little boy is not going to be so little!!!!!!
What I’m most looking forward to about having a baby… 2008-05-15 09:09:52 This topic came up on a forum I go to regularly and I had a little think myself.
What I’m looking forward to most
I am really excited to actually give birth. I think it’s one of the most ultimate experiences. It’s going to hurt a lot and everything but the pain is just a means to [...]
Seven Confessions 2008-05-17 15:34:14 I got tagged! Yup for the first time ever! Cassie tagged me today for a confessions meme.
Confession 1. I am afraid of dying. I can’t talk about this one. It scares me too much. Such a silly phobia though because it’s gonna happen to all of us.
Confession 2. I [...] Read more:Seven
Photohunt: Candy 2008-05-17 03:20:34 This weeks theme for Photo Hunt (thchick.com) is candy. Candy
Floss (or Cotton Candy) is by far my all time favourite. I didn’t actually take this picture… my husband did… My face is scrunched up because it started to rain very lightly (typical Ireland!) and the Candy Floss started to melt in areas.
I [...] Read more:Photohunt
Feeling Fabulous 2008-05-16 14:04:21 Recently I’ve been having overwhelming feelings of love for my husband. I know your meant to love your husband anyway… but recently we’ve been so much closer and much happier than I think I can ever remember. He thinks I’m fabulous and looks at me as if I’m fabulous (even when I look like crap). [...] Read more:Feeling
Picnic in the park 2008-05-16 13:49:15 Today was nice…
I met hubby for a picnic on his lunch break in a park right beside where he works. I took some cold pesto pasta, cereal bars, carrot sticks and cherry tomatoes and some crisps and we sat there on my new picnic blanket (pressie from mother in law so I can sit [...] Read more:Picnic
Talk About Tuesday: My Wedding 2008-05-20 15:33:31 This is my first time taking part in “Talk About Tuesday
”… a weekly blog carnival organised by Lisa Gallagher at The Lazy Organiser.
So… being that this is my first and in the excitement of it being Hubby’s and my first wedding anniversary on Monday I though I would talk about our wedding day.
The plans for [...]
Kitchen Time Savers 2008-05-20 11:44:42 The best advice ever given to me about saving time in the kitchen was to “clean as you go”. Not only does this save time after cooking, but also makes the cooking easier because the surfaces are not so cluttered.
On the inside of one of your cupboards sticky tape a sheet which lists all [...] Read more:Kitchen
Pregnant Legs 2008-05-22 11:27:18 :(
I don’t know what has happened… I have never really worried about my weight and since becoming pregnant I have worried even less. Recently I bought some new comfy clothes to wear around the house and this whole week I haven’t really left the house… therefore only been wearing my comfy slob about the [...]
Love Thursday 2008-05-22 11:00:13 My husband and I went to Cuba for our honeymoon and this is what we saw as soon as we went into our room. Our maid had arranged our towels into the shape of a heart knowing that we were a honeymoon couple. This didn’t happen on just the first day. Every [...] Read more:Thursday
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Plans for the week 2008-05-24 03:04:29 James and I are in Belfast for the whole week. Returning home on Saturday. It’s been ages since we were up last because I don’t like the bus. The journey is about 2 and a half hours and totally hurts my back… BUT… the journey home should be the last time we have to travel [...]
Photohunt: Shoes 2008-05-24 02:57:29 This week’s theme for Photohunt
is Shoes. I chose this photo which is of the shoes my husband wore on our wedding day. We had quite a relaxed wedding day and my hubby has never been one for wearing stuffy suits and that so in the end he chose a beautiful casual suit, didn’t wear a [...]
Smart Habit Saturday 2008-05-24 01:25:04 Guidelines are here. Basically you have to think of on small habit that would help in your daily life and carry that through everyday. Now that it is very close to the baby being born I thought maybe this would be a good activity for me as a new baby is surely going to put [...] Read more:Smart
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Sigh… 2008-05-28 16:50:47 I’m enjoying relaxing this week… that was a relaxed sigh… I’m enjoying having hubby with me most of the day for the week and REALLY enjoying not having to make a menu plan, dinners… not having to do the laundry or housework… hmmm… this is nice… I have to admit there have been a couple [...]
The good and the bad about pregnancy 2008-05-27 16:30:56 Ok… so maybe I’ll start with the negatives… the things that I haven’t enjoyed about pregnancy…
When pregnant, at least in the later stages, it is recommended that you do not sleep on your back… and well, since lying on you front is out of the question, that leaves your side. I HATE sleeping on my [...]
Catch up… 2008-05-27 16:28:16 So we are still in Belfast but now were at my mother in laws. We came here on Monday morning. HUbby and I have now been marrried for a year. We celebrated our anniversary on Sunday night instead of Monday because sitting in with in laws isn’t exactly fireworks… anyways… we went to our favourite [...] Read more:Catch
No title 2008-06-01 16:15:00 When we got home on Saturday, hubby checked his work phone for new emails and noticed one that mentioned about everyone in the office being off on Monday. He asked me surprised, whether Monday was a bank holiday or something and we found out that it is! Neither of us had any idea. So it [...]
1st June: Goals this month 2008-06-01 08:13:22 A new month… and some new goals.
Try and take more walks:
This was a goal from last month that has been going quite well. I haven’t been out everyday as the weather has been so unpredictable but I’ve definitely been out more and think it has been good for me. As the baby is due in [...] Read more:Goals
Back Home 2008-05-31 09:30:15 … and how lovely it is for it to be just Hubby and I alone again. The week has been a bit hectic… i guess it’s just a lot easier to relax in your own house than in someone else’s…
Unfortunately Hubby did not pass his driving test… and he feels quite miserable… but not [...]
Smart Habit Saturday 2008-05-31 09:22:34 I only started taking part in this last week, I know, but because my baby is due in just 2 and a half weeks time I’m really going to keep up just one of the habits I started last week. It was the habit I borrowed from Lara…
Sit on the couch until the baby [...] Read more:Smart
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Photohunt: Self 2008-05-31 09:09:57 This weeks theme for Photohunt
is ‘Self’ so I have been brave and posted a black and white portrait of my bump. This photo was taken by me when I was around 20 weeks, just when I really started to get a proper round bump. I do love my bump even though it [...]
My belly is going mad! 2008-06-03 11:14:48 Honestly… whoever said that the baby’s movements would decrease the closer I got to my due date, lied! The baby has been moving nonstop all day and most of the night for the past week and shows no sign of slowing down any. I constantly have a foot poking out of my right side just [...] Read more:belly
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