Salsa Chicken (Mel)

So I thought I would contribute to this even though I wasn't really INVITED, but whatever I have the password and stuff so I can write about whatever I want. Last night I made Salsa Chicken and I wondered why I had never done it before. Tim loved it and it tasted so good over hot rice. And it's so EASY!
In a crockpot put as many pieces of chicken as you're going to eat and dump enough salsa over it to cover the chicken. I put in hot sauce on top of the salsa because we like things a little spicy but you don't have to add that, if you don't want to . I let it cook for about an hour on High and when we got home all I had to do was cook some rice and throw some frozen pepper strips in on top of the salsa and chicken which was already cooked. When it was all done I served it over rice and topped it with cheese and sour cream and it was delicious. Easy and tasty is the best way to cook at my house.  I would have a picture but we ate it too fast to get the camera out. Whoops!:)

First Dinner (Steph)

For our first dinner in our new kitchen on our new dining set I decided to go with a comfortable favorite that I knew the Kevin and I would both enjoy.  I made Chicken and Broccoli Casserole with rice and chili garlic brussel sprouts. Of course I was the only one who would eat the brussel sprouts, even though they were pretty good.

I made a half recipe since it was just the three of us (two of us really) who ate and I added sour cream to the mix as well.  Does anyone else do that?  I like it.

The brussel sprouts are made just how they sound like with trimmed, halved brussel sprouts, crushed garlic, crushed red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and a little butter.  Then I just zapped them in the microwave for a couple of minutes (because I heard that cooking them in water makes them more bitter tasting) and that's it. 

As for books, does anyone have any suggestions on books to start with?  Should we all try to find something new to read?   I found this website that has plenty of suggestions. 

http://www.bookmovement.com/

Introduction (Steph)

A few of us were sitting around this morning after a walk around Mom and Dad's neighborhood and decided it would be fun to have a family blog that we could all share and contribute to.  But, since some of us have our own family blogs we thought we needed to have a theme or something else to set this one apart.  It was easy to think of something that we all have in common... food!  We all like it.  Most of us like to cook it.  And we all have had some zany adventure in cooking or baking.

We also decided it would be fun to have a book club in our family and a blog would be a great way to coordinate and share.  We'll have to discuss this one a little more, but I thought we ought to get the blog up and running to start.

Any one of us in the family can contribute and post or change anything you'd like, just make sure to put your name in the title (see above) so we know who's goofy story or intellectual insight we are reading.  Happy cooking/reading/blogging!