1. Cut up chicken breasts into thin strips, fry in olive oil.
2. In a separate pan, stir fry frozen “Italian vegetable” mix in olive oil with some garlic.
3. When the chicken strips are browned, season with lemon pepper and oregano.
4. Combine the chicken and vegetables into one of the pans; mix together.
5. Mix in your noodles (I used a small, curly noodle instead of linguine)
6. Add the juice of one whole lemon and add canned parmesean cheese to taste (about 1/3 cup).
7. Stir and enjoy!
While looking for my life manifesto today, I found these tips on placing a feng shui fountain in the home:
Wealth & luck = south-east
Good marriage = south-west.
Career = north.
Helpful friends = west.
Good health & family relationship = east.
Study & education = north-east
So perhaps this semester, you’d want to place it in the north-east for study and education! 
Now we just need a compass.. haha I feel that I need a feng shui fountain now! My online search for inner peace keeps leading me to feng shui fountains again and again!
After eating lots of sushi on our cruise, I think our next undertaking should be making sushi!
Plus, we can enjoy them with a Lychee sunrise cocktail – a perfect use for our newly obtained can of lychees!
Another use for lychees – Lychee nuts and pineapple chunks with mango sorbet! I love 30 minute meals - it’s the only show I watch on the food network.
My very creative family makes a “Christmas Craft” every year. As kids, we made things like cranberry and popcorn garlands, gumdrop christmas trees (mine broke! still trying to recover from that one), and many many variations on the reindeer christmas tree ornament.
We grew tired of the christmas themed crafts that we could only see once a year. So instead, this year we decided on decorative mobiles. We all went to Garden Ridge, which is basically a larger, Southern version of Michaels. While wandering the isles, we found a huge bag of tiny wood cut-outs. These became the key component of our project. We also obtained some wire from which to construct the hangers, and of course some tiny jewels and whatnot to adorn our modern sculptures.
After some experimentation, I found the following the best method of construction….
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Ditch that can
Thanksgiving is coming up and that means cranberry sauce! At our house, cranberry sauce is not in the same category as gravy or butter, but holds its own as a main dish. I recently did a taste test between canned cranberry sauce and homemade cranberry sauce, and let me tell you–there is just no comparison. The cranberries in homemade cranberry sauce are a whole different fruit. Homemade sauce is so easy to make, you should really give it a go this Thanksgiving.
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Creating atmosphere in a new apartment or room can be an ENORMOUS obstacle for us 20 somethings who lack da booty (aka dinero). Afterall, if you’ve only got enough money to buy meat once a month, you certainly are not going to spend your hard earned money on sprucing up your living room! So here are several inexpensive ideas that will help you transform your vapid room into a spectacular space!
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This is currently my favorite cookie recipe. It is SO easy and SO yummy. I am very particular about my chocolate…a recipe really has to provide a quality chocolate flavor to satisfy my needs, and this recipe satisfies me every time! Plus, it only has 7 ingredients that you probably have in your house already. I am providing the halved recipe, which is what I usually use as there are only two of us available to eat these delights.
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After years of doing cross-stitch for my mom, going insane counting gazillions of tiny stitches, I didn’t think I would ever be turned on to do needlework again. However, we could make tea towels that are so hot it would be silly not to make them!!
Plus, it seems pretty cheap. The towel would be the most expensive part. Haha. I sense a new motifa project!
I made a scrumpscious Halloween/Birthday cake last week and covered the top with rocky crags of spun sugar. It looks quite impressive, but I need to perfect the technique before recommending it as a Motifa-worthy process.
Cake
Waa La!
Tonight Laura and I made a variation on Chicken Breasts with Raspberry Sauce. Despite our lack of several key ingredients, it came out quite well (unlike some pumpkin soups that can go unmentioned…).
Anyway, we had blackberry preserves, so that replaced the raspberry. Also we had no thyme or sage, so I seasoned the chicken with pepper, oregano/basil, and some cinammon. Surprisingly enough, it all turned out very well except that the time the site said for actually cooking the chicken was very underestimated (it took half an hour for us compared with their 8-10 minutes).
Do you think you could use Nutella as a replacement for the fruit preserves!? Muah ha ha!
