Advice

If someone is talking in your ear about someone else. They are talking in someone else's ABOUT you.

Odee

Advice

Always....Always....Always... Do it Jehovahs way!
Odee

Book suggestion: What does the bible teach?
http://www.jw.org/

Kids Stuff- Reading

Today, sit down and read to your children for 30 min. Sit on the counch or somewhere close together. Odee

Get in Shape

20 squats, butt down below knees! no hands!
Odee

Advertising

Any ideas on FREE ADVERTISING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!? Please leave in comments!

Odee

Recipe

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/lee-bros-country-captain-recipe/index.html

Juan and I made this one some time ago. Long recipe but well worth it!!!!!!!!

Lee Bros. Country Captain


Recipe courtesy Lee Brothers

Prep Time: 30 min Inactive Prep Time: -- Cook Time: 1 hr 30 min Level:

Easy Serves:

4 servings Ingredients

1/2 cup chicken broth

1/2 cup dried currants or raisins

1 tablespoon curry powder

1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more for seasoning

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more for seasoning

1/4 pound slab bacon or fatty country ham, chopped

12 chicken thighs, skin on, trimmed of excess skin and fat (I only did 6 chicken thighs, and had leftovers for lunch)

1 large flavorful dried chile, such as guajillo or pasilla, split, seeds removed (1 TBS Chile powder)

2 1/3 cups peeled and sliced carrots (1/4-inch thick rounds), about 1 1/4 pound bunch weighed with tops

2 cups diced yellow onions, about 2 medium onions

3 cloves garlic, unpeeled (peeled)

1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes, with juice

4 cups cooked white rice

2/3 cup slivered toasted almonds, chopped (unchopped)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.



Pour the broth into a small saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Put the currants in a small bowl and pour enough broth over them to cover. Set aside. In another small bowl, combine the curry powder, salt, and black pepper and reserve.



Scatter the bacon in a 4 to 6 quart enameled cast-iron pot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Stir the pieces around occasionally until the bacon is firm and just golden brown, about 5 minutes. With the slotted spoon, transfer the bacon to a small bowl and reserve.



Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of fat from the pot, reserving the excess fat in a small bowl. Brown the chicken thighs in batches over medium-high heat, taking care not to crowd them in the pot, until they are golden brown, about 5 minutes per side. Add the reserved bacon fat, 1 teaspoon at a time, if the pot becomes too dry. Remove the chicken and reserve in a medium bowl. Did the browning of the chicken as the last because I don't like raw chicken just sitting out!



Add 2 teaspoons reserved bacon fat to the pot (if there is none left, use 2 teaspoons canola or vegetable oil). Add the chile (toast the chile in the fat, about 30 seconds per side, until very fragrant.)



Add the carrots, bell peppers, onions, and garlic and cook until slightly softened, about 6 minutes. Add the tomatoes, spice mixture, ginger, and the currants and their broth. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until the tomatoes have cooked down to a puree and the sauce has thickened around the vegetables, about 8 minutes.



Nest the chicken thighs gently in the vegetable sauce so that the skin side faces up and is above the surface of the gravy. Tent the pot loosely with foil and transfer to the middle rack of the oven. Bake until the country captain resembles a roiling stew around the chicken thighs, about 20 minutes. Remove the foil and bake until the sauce has thickened further and the chicken skin is just beginning to crisp, about 15 minutes more.



Remove from the oven, skim any excess fat from the surface, and season to taste with salt and pepper. Discard the chile. With tongs, transfer 3 thighs to each of 4 wide, deep bowls filled with 1 cup hot white rice. Spoon the sauce over the chicken and the rice and garnish with the reserved bacon, almonds, and parsley.



This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant. The FN chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.

Enjoy this was so good!

Odee

Advice

A friend of mine had two friends that would fight my advice...let them, don't take sides, it is not your responsibility to control their emotions.

Odee

Get in Shape

Do cruches on the couch. Sitting on the edge. Suck stomach in. Legs paralell to the floor. Move legs up and down, never dropping below the paralell line!

Odee

FUN!

Go back to memory lane and do something you thought was fun as a child.
Roll down a grassy hill.
Re-Read a fav childhood book.
Odee

Recipe

Chocolate cake:

Cooking Level: Intermediate

"Super dark chocolate cake.

Prep Time:15 Min
Cook Time:35 Min
Ready In: 1 Hr


Original Recipe Yield 1 - 9x13 inch or 2 - 9 inch round pans

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup chocolate syrup
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans or one 9x13 inch pan.

In large bowl combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Make a well in the center.
Add eggs, coffee, buttermilk, oil and vanilla.
Beat for 2 minutes on medium speed. Batter will be thin.
Pour into prepared pans.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes, then remove from pans and finish cooling on a wire rack. Fill and frost as desired.
 
Odee

Advice

Since I have no followers I can't give any advice yet.

So note to self: Although you are very very angry today, you love everyone around you enough to NOT take it out on them!

Odee

Kids Stuff

Checkout PBSkids.com "cool beans!"
Odee

I dare you

I dare you to do a movement ecersize in a public place.
Like Jumping Jacks in a Wal-Mart.
Odee

Get in Shape

If you have never exercised before try starting with 10 min a day.




Research simple stretches and cardio (print them out if you have to)



Week 1

Stretch 5 min.

Cardio 5 min.

10 min. Daily



Week 2

Stretch 7 min.

Cardio 7 min.

14 min. Daily



Week 3

Stretch 10 min.

Cardio 10 min.

20 min. Daily



Week 4

Stretch 15 min.

Cardio 15 min.

30 min. Daily



Remain at 30 min. Daily



Odee

Fun

I actually play club pogo on-line and I love it. Good for when I am not busy,(a sarcastic haha) Up in the middle of the night for no reason, and /or trying to ignore the dishes!  Odee

My Plan

I post plan schedule (tried and tested by me or a good friend) ok or something that just plain sounds good:

Monday: Recipes
Tuesday: Books
Wednesday: Fun
Thrusday: Get in Shape
Friday: I Dare You
Saturday: Kids Stuff
Sunday: Advice

Odee

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this book! You must read it.

Odee:

I have a three year old and a two month old and a crazy husband...