Health, In the Kitchen, Photos

Success in the kitchen

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I made quinoa for the first time last night. It turned out beautifully. It’s my new favorite, grain… plant? What is it? I love it.

I have my menu plan all set out for the week in advance, and I knew last night was salmon night. I was thinking of having basmati rice, cooked in chicken stock. But then I remembered I have yet to attempt quinoa.

All I did was follow the instructions on the box, and wouldn’t you know, it actually turned out okay! I did have to drain a bit of the stock out, as it was too watery even with the recommended amount. But whatevs. No biggie.

Supper served with a salad, garlic bread, lemon pepper salmon with a side of broccoli and chicken stocked quinoa. Mmm-mmm! Doesn’t it look deeerrrrricious? :)Halloween is coming up on Monday, is anyone dressing up or going out this weekend? I’m sure there’s tons of you out there. I haven’t dressed up in literally years. But my co-workers and I are all dressing up on Monday for work. I don’t own any costumes but my co-worker has a tickle truck full of goodies. Just like Mr. Dress-up! She let me borrow something. I can’t show you what I’m going to be until Halloween, and I was going to show you a sneak peak, but then the outfit is so simple that you’d definitely guess it right away. Ha. 

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Pulled Chicken Sandwich

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I woke up Saturday morning with basically a full blown sinus cold. I was miserable and wanted the pain in my nose to go away. I ended up taking some over the counter sinus med’s all day Saturday and on Sunday it was still there, but not as bad as the day before. Monday morning I woke up and coughed all day. I did go to work yesterday, because I had a TON of stuff to do, regarding the campaign I’ve been organizing for Breast Cancer Awareness, so I needed to go in! Maybe I’ll post more about that later in the month. It’s totally fun and I was contact companies for some “goodies” for the staff I work with.

Today is the first day that I’m starting to feel like myself again. Finally. It’s been forever.

Anyway. Onto a recipe blog post, since I haven’t done one in a while.

I’m not a fan of pulled pork sandwiches. What I am a fan of – is pulled-CHICKEN sandwiches. Mouth watering and derrrrioucous in my mouth.

I made them a few weeks ago. I photocopied a recipe out of a Campbells Soup cook book I found at work. I didn’t end up using it because it consisted of way too many ingredients for my liking. Apple cidar vinegar, brown sugar… so what I ended up doing was just pan cooking the chicken, and shredding it with two forks. Took it away from the heat and dumped in some of my favorite BBQ sauce: Peppercorn found at Save On Foods in Western Canada (BC is where we bought ours).

Pulled Chicken Sandwich “recipe”, and I quote that word since it’s the second easiest thing I’ve ever made. First thing being Kraft Dinner. Oh yeah.

As I said, I’m not the hugest fan of pulled pork sandwiches since I felt the meat was too wet and slimy on my palette. So I decided to go for a better option!

While the chicken was cooking on the grill I heated up some of this BBQ sauce I purchased in British Columbia at Save On Foods. Since we don’t have one of those grocery stores here in Ontario, I still  can’t seem to find a substitute for it at Zehrs or Sobeys! I’ve also used Diana Honey Garlic Sauce for this as well and it was scrumptious.Open faced sammich. I like mine pretty dry, but I may have needed to add something to it since it may have been too dry with the panini bread I used with it. My Boyfriend usually adds more BBQ sauce to his. Lotsaflava.I serve it with a simple salad! I’ve bought all kinds of different variety packs of salad spicer-uppers at Zehrs and I kinda like this one, but the Mexican one is better (and hotter/spicier).

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A raised issue

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I don’t have a skin disease, I’m still peeling from my San Diego sun burn.

See that bump on my shin?

It’s been there since before August.

I assume it’s a bug bite, but I obviously could be very wrong. The night before it swelled up I swatted what I thought was a fly in the bedroom, with my hand. BAM! I didn’t look to see if it died, I immediately went to bed. I woke up with a lump on my shin. I ignored it, since it wasn’t itchy or painful. Just felt like a bruise if I pressed on it.

I wasn’t too worried about it for the first little while until a co-worker mentioned that it’s been there a while. I decided to take myself to the drop in clinic next to my work to have it looked after. The Doctor there ended up giving me some potent antibiotics. I say potent because when I went to the pharmacy to pick up the drugs, the pharmacist said “Wow, that must be some pretty bad bug bite!”. Great.

I took the 5 pills for 5 days and they didn’t do much, except for make me very happy. The Doc said that’d happen, or the complete opposite. I’m glad it was the happy-feeling… but it was really weird.

Friday afternoon I drove back over to the drop in clinic, since it was 4 days after I took the 5 pills, so 9 days since I last saw the Doctor about my leg. (Are you with me?) He recognized me right away because I’ve become a regular at the clinic (since I had an ear infection in July, and needed to go back twice!!).

Well it doesn’t seem to be getting any better, does it? He said.

Nope. And I’m going on vacation next week. Let’s get this fixed man.

I was ordered to get some x-ray’s done on my leg, as well as a blood and urine test. He wanted me to go Friday so he’d get the results that day. I’ve yet to hear from him but then again – it’s the weekend, and he said he’d call only if there was anything wrong with the results. I’m looking forward to any type of news, just so I can get this ugly bump off my leg. I kinda want to cover it up by wearing pants (or maternity clothing) … but it’s summer and I love wearing shorts!

Here’s hoping I get a phone call tomorrow!

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