Posted on

February Kitchen Adventures

As I mentioned last month, I am a Recipe Reviewer for ReadySetEat.com, a new website from ConAgra Foods.  It’s a great spot where you can find all kinds of recipes, search for specific ingredients, and read reviews of these recipes.  It’ll help you decide “what’s for dinner”.  What’s even better is that these are all simple, easy, FAST recipes you can throw together quickly!  This month I reviewed four recipes, and I chose two of them simply based on what ingredients I already had in my pantry.  They all turned out great!

My favorite recipe I made this month was the Honey-Mustard Pork Chops. YUM!  I never thought that I could love Gulden’s Spicy Brown Mustard (I generally shy away from anything with the word “spicy” in the title), but it is GOOD in all these recipes! This is the third one I’ve used it in, and I am now a fan! Anyhoo, these pork chops were absolutely amazingly delicious.  And they were SO fast and easy to make.  I was rather impressed with myself!

This is ReadySetEat's picture. Because I forgot to take one. But mine looked JUST like this. 🙂

The other recipe I reviewed this month that really surprised me was the Italian Chicken Packets.  I usually like my chicken dressed up a little fancier (read: heavily marinated or breaded) so I was afraid I wouldn’t like it.  But it was REALLY tasty and so simple.  The ingredients in this are Hunt’s diced tomatoes, broccoli, chicken, and lite italian dressing.   And you cook them in FOIL.  Seriously, it could not be any easier to make OR clean up.  And the mix of the veggies with the dressing was SO tasty! And healthy too!  I’ll definitely be making it again!

I forgot to take a picture of this one too. And mine was NOT this pretty but MAN it was tasty!

Also this month I discovered the “Recipe Box” feature of ReadySetEat.com.  I love, love being able to save my favorite recipes there so I don’t have to search for them each time I come to the site.  So convenient!

So tell me, have you checked out ReadySetEat.com yet?  And if so, what’s in YOUR recipe box?

____________________

I am being compensated by ConAgra Foods for my role as a Recipe Reviewer.  My opinions and on the recipes are all my own.

Post to Twitter

Posted on

Review: Sleepy Wrap carrier

One of the very fun things about having a new baby is getting to review some excellent baby products.  The Sleepy Wrap is one of those products I was very happy to review!  It’s a very versatile, comfortable way to wear your baby.  It’s just one big piece of fabric that can be worn multiple ways, and is ideal for your baby’s first year of life, although you may wear it much longer as long as you and your kiddo are comfy in it!

I am not intuitively good at figuring things out, but the Sleepy Wrap was easy to put on and put Jonah in once I watched their great instructional video a couple times.  And it is SO comfortable to wear.  And he LOVES being in it.  I’ve had to take him out of it a couple of times because he was so sleepy and comfy I was afraid he wouldn’t sleep at bedtime!

I love the way the Sleepy Wrap evenly distributes the baby’s weight so it doesn’t hurt my back, my shoulders, or anything else.  The fabric is a really high-quality knit and feels great.  I got brown, a nice unisex color, so Bobby can wear the baby in it too.  It’s a one-size fits all wrap so we can share baby-wearing duties!

Wearing the Sleepy Wrap I can do dishes, laundry, vacuum – all kinds of things and also have a happy baby!  Not to mention it is great to wear him in anywhere I need to go.

I love the Sleepy Wrap!  To check out more of it’s great features, just visit the website.

_________________

Sleepy Wrap provided me with a wrap to review, and all opinions on the product are my own.

Post to Twitter

Posted on

Who are the People in Your Neighborhood?

Do you remember Sesame Street’s “Who are the People in Your Neighborhood?”

It was a series of songs that introduced kids to people in their neighborhoods in the late 70s. I bet a lot of you are singing it in your heads right now!

Teachers, fire fighters, librarians, police officers… the songs introduce them to kids as friends and neighbors.

Some people in Ohio, though, have decided that public employees in our neighborhoods are not actually our friends and are working hard to take away many of the rights these people deserve.

If you haven’t heard about Ohio Senate Bill 5, I encourage you to do a little research and figure out where you stand. Here’s an article that sums it up pretty well, and a lot of information can be found on the Ohio Education Association website.

It’s not a partisan issue – while every democratic senator in Ohio opposes the bill, this article from the Columbus Dispatch discusses the republican senators who think it goes too far as well.

So, Ohio friends, read up on it and then see what you can do. I tried to call Governer Kasich himself yesterday, but his voicemail box was full. (If you want to give him a piece of your mind tell him your thoughts, his number is 614-466-3555.)

As Jenny’s brother and sister-in-law wrote on their FB status this morning, we (public employees) are not the enemy.

We are the people in your neighborhood.

Post to Twitter