The clip the title of our blog came from, for this week:
LOL.
First exciting news of the week: Christian's grants and scholarships came in!!!.... at a very, very opportune time. He got a Pell grant, a subsidized Stafford loan, and an Academic Competitiveness Grant. This will be extremely helpful in paying for school and other things. :) We're really happy and blessed.
D, the autistic boy I shadow at school, didn't have school on Thursday because of a "fall break" (I'm so jealous...). And Christian didn't have class. So on Thursday we both got a much-needed chance to sleep in. It was soooo nice. We'd been sleep deprived for a while, due to late work hours and homework. It was amazing to finally get a good sleep-in.
On Thursday afternoon, we got a knock on our door, which is actually unusual because you need an entry code to even get in to knock on our door. We answered it, and it was the plumber. He informed us that every time we drained water out of our kitchen sink, it released noxious gases out of our neighbor's bathroom sink (!?!?!). But he said he wasn't going to come fix it until Monday. Figures. So now apparently we are to avoid draining water from our kitchen sink for 5 days. Since we don't have a dishwasher, if we want to do the dishes we pretty much have to run (and drain) water in our sink. It's been really obnoxious trying to do the dishes without killing our neighbors with poison gas. We tried to do dishes in the bathtub, but it was gross and didn't work too well. So now we have settled with plugging the drain, filling our sink with water, and letting our dirty dishes soak in the water. There are only two of us, but we have a small sink and our sink is filling up fast. The plumber had better come tomorrow if he knows what's good for him. It's getting gross around here.
On Friday we both came home from class and conked out again. We slept from about 3 til 6 in the evening. It was a great nap, and then we woke up and went to the temple and did some sealings. It was nice to be reminded of our wedding day and do service at the same time.
On Saturday I had to work, but Christian got together with a bunch of his roommates from his freshman year at BYU. They had a great time reminiscing, eating chips and salsa, watching the football game, playing video games, and watching homemade movies. I was glad he finally got some interaction time with them; he's been missing them a lot. When we both came home we went over to Chris's house (Christian's friend) and hung out there for a while. We made dinner there. Note for all to remember: Never buy the 99-cent big family-size packages of store-brand egg noodles. We figured it was a good deal, and so we bought it, thinking the 99-cent kind of noodles couldn't be that much different than the regular kind; noodles are all made from the same basic stuff, right? We found out that apparently it can be VERY different. Those noodles turn straight from crunchy to slimy soggy mush. There is no in-between. It was kind of gross and we ended up throwing the leftover noodles away.
Now.... *drumroll* are you ready.... for the most delicious, mouthwatering meal that I have eaten in a VERY, VERY long time???? It made me want to do the scene from What About Bob, where he just keeps saying "Mmmmm... MMM!!! Mmm. Mmmmm, mmmm!" (clip is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvVKFCP5cCA) I just couldn't stop raving about how yummy it was!!! And it was super easy and only takes about 5-10 minutes of prep time, and you only bake it for 35 minutes! Start to finish in 40-45 minutes... AWESOME! You'll definitely want to add this one to the family cookbook once you try it. Behold.... the recipe for....
Chicken Parmigiana!!!
(courtesy of our "Taste of Home" cookbook... is it legal to re-type this?)
Ingredients:
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
3/4 tsp Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 oz each)
1 jar (26 oz) meatless spaghetti sauce
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 375. In a shallow bowl, combine the bread crumbs, grated Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning, garlic powder and salt. In another bowl, lightly beat the egg. Dip chicken in egg, then roll in crumb mixture.
2) Place in a 13x9x2 baking dish, coated with cooking spray. Bake, uncovered, at 375 for 10 minutes on each side.
3) Pour spaghetti sauce over chicken; bake for 5 minutes. Sprinkle with shredded cheeses; bake 10 minutes longer or until chicken juices run clear. Serves 4.
Our Alterations:
Instead of 3/4 cup mozzarella and 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan, we bought a bag of shredded "Italian Five Cheese Blend", which included mozzarella, provolone, romano, asiago, and parmesan, and just used a cup of that. We also used Italian-seasoned bread crumbs. Both were divine!
Believe me, guys, this recipe is to DIE FOR.
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Anyway, now that I'm done ranting about that recipe, I'll call it a blog. Hope everyone's doing well! Love you all!
Brittany and Christian
I'm sinking zis food zounds quite goot!
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