Homemade Chicken Pot Pie

I've been making this for years...my family loves it!
(and I'm linking up with http://serenitynow4amanda.blogspot.com/)

Two pie crusts
Place one in the bottom of your dish
Mix cooked chicken (about 2 breasts)
Chopped celery, onion, carrots
Frozen Green Peas
Three chopped boiled eggs
One can of cream of anything soup
Thyme..preferably fresh
Salt and Pepper
Top with second crust/cut out with chicken cookie cutter
Bake for about 20-30 minutes in 400 degree oven...just watch!

Be sure to use your cookie cutter!

My "Chocolate" Bunnies

I love chocolate..truly, more than anyone I know!  Many years ago I saw a ceramic chocolate bunny, and fell in love with it.  Since then, I've been collecting them each year when I find them.  I haven't seen any out this year, but they come and go.  Sadly, I dropped one when I was decorating my mantle...hope I can replace it.  Enjoy my bunnies, and have a blessed Resurrection day!



The chocolate bunny gang...



Chocolate bunny boxes...

My sister made this chocolate bunny tassel

Details

He's the distinguished one.



Up close...

I'm linking today with http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/

A Couple of Lunch Recipes

I like to have high-protein lunches since high-carb lunches make me sleepy!  I am sharing two recipes for hummus and chicken spread.  I usually make these on the weekend and then pack them in small containers in the freezer.  I'll pull a couple out each week to take to school, they're thawed by lunch. You can buy these little containers at a Dollar Tree store, and keep them in a zippy bag in the freezer.  With some whole grain crackers, or vege slices, they are a perfect (and delicious) high protein lunch.

Hummus (I try to buy organic items)

2 cans of chick peas

1/3 bunch of parsley

1 lemon

1 clove of garlic

olive oil to texture

cumin to taste

salt and pepper to taste

Put all of the ingredients into a food processor.  Use olive oil and lemon juice to make a spreadable consistency.

Chicken Spread
2 cooked chicken breasts
1/2 cup of pecans
1/2 cup of olives
1/4 cup of red onion
mayonnaise to consistency

Put all of the ingredients into a food processor.  Use the mayonnaise to make a spreadable consistency.

Pink Saturday!

After almost of year of nursing my husband who had a stroke (he's much better), I'm starting to feel a little free...and wanting to do some of the things I used to do..like blog!  So, I'm joining in the fun with Beverly at How Sweet the Sound, and playing Pink Saturday!

I've been a pink girl for quite some time.  When I was in graduate school, I met with a professor for an independent study I was doing.  I reached in my purse to grab a pen...and he looked in my purse and said.."My...it's pink in there!"  I hadn't thought about it much until the other day (approximately 5 years later) when my sister looked in my purse and said the same thing!  So, I'm sharing the contents of my purse...and the pink camera and computer with which I created this blog!  Happy Pink Saturday, friends...I've missed seeing all of you!



My purse...not sure where the red coin purse came from...will work on that!







Love my pink computer and camera!



Happy Birthday to Me!!

My daughter sent me this beautiful flower cake for my birthday!  No calories!!

Snow Day in Texas!!

I love being a Texan, but I'm not all that crazy about the weather.  Most of the time, it's okay...but there are those 108 degree days...thank you, Lord, for a pool!  There are also lots of very cold days...and my school is an older, open concept school without hallways, so the minute I step out of  my office, I'm outside.  There are days that my coat never comes off. 

I'm not complaining because I think I do much better when it's not cold, and there are more of those days.  But sometimes I long for snow.  I've never lived in the north, so I've never really had a white Christmas.  I have lived in New Mexico, and remember snow days where you still had to go to school...an unknown concept in Central Texas.  We had a pretty good snow day this year.  It had been cold enough for several days to stick to the ground.  I didn't actully get to see it..it happened during the night.  But, as soon as I woke up, I took pictures.

Looking out my bedroom window

No swimming today!

My driveway

Sorry birds!

Looking down on my deck...the wind blew over chairs and rugs

Grandmother Tea

Recently, I gave my boss a grandmother tea.  She was about to be a brand new grandmother, and needed...you know, grandmother "stuff".  Really, it's just an excuse to have a little party and honor someone who deserves to be honored!

It was a very small gathering, just our office staff and her daughter. 

I served everything buffet style, and took the opportunity to use my real depression and "new" depression glass. 

The real depression glass is the Green Cameo Ballerina. I danced many years of my life, and have a degree that enables me to teach dance in public school...although I only student taught and substituted at a magnet school for a short time. So...anything with ballerinas catches my eye.  When I first saw this, I knew I'd be collecting it. 

The "new" depression glass is the Pink Madrid.  Although it's not real depression glass, it is about 20 years old. I also used some pink milk glass that I bought years ago.

I bought the teapot at an estate sale.  It's Homer Laughlin...but I'm not sure of the pattern.

It was also a great time to use my embroidery machine.  Baby, parents, and "Honey"...which by the way is also MY grandmother name...are doing well!