Recipe Rally! Chicken

Welcome to the second week of Recipe Rally! Thank you so much for participating.

Today's theme is chicken! Have you noticed that everything is supposed to taste like chicken? I probably shouldn't mention this, but wasn't frog and snake supposed to taste like chicken too? I don't really know because I haven't tried it. Why should I when I can just eat the chicken?

So, without further ado, let us bring out our chicken recipe. Be is easy and fast, or fancy and slow, let's get creative with chicken!

Duck Sauce Chicken (perfect for chicken thighs)
2-3 lbs chicken thighs (skinless or not)
Baking pan
1 16 oz jar Duck sauce (mild or spicy)
Seasoned salt to taste

Turn oven on at 375F or 190C. Arrange chicken in a baking pan, disposable aluminum foil is perfect, unless you're avoiding aluminum because of the Alzheimer scare. I am not sure what the latest verdict is, but last time I checked, it was inconclusive. Pour duck sauce over chicken until fully covered. Sprinkle with seasoned salt. Cover and put in over for 40 minutes. Bake uncovered for another 15 minutes.

This can also be prepared ahead of time and bake the following day. You may also bake potato and other vegetables while chicken is baking, that way you get two things done in one go.

Next weeks theme is: fish

Fabulous, Darling!

It seems anti-climactic for me to proclaim right off that I had an outstanding evening. I did. My husband took me out to dinner and then a movie. I had a beautiful morning and afternoon too. I get such a kick watching my 11 months successfully whisking off his diapers. DS4 was so happy go be allowed to go nekkid for a whole 2 hours. He peed twice on my floor, and went right on walking with whatever business he's got going. I can't believe he's going to be one year old in less than two weeks!

DS3 kept complaining to me that DS4 was nekkid. Ha! As if he had never done it when he was a whole lot younger! I played online Backgammon too. I am so ashamed to admit that a day hasn't passed by in which I didn't sneak in a game or two or twenty. What's to become of me now that I am thoroughly corrupt?

I used to be vice-free except for my infernal obsession with books. However, the almost-death experience with the last L&D glued me to the tubes. I used to pretend to sit with my husband while he watches TV. I would read my books or knit or crochet. Now, I am well-versed in shows such as House, M.D., Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, CSI, CSI Miami, Gilmore Girls…and I should really stop listing. All those times I spent watching TV when I could have been catching up on all those wonderful books I've yet to read and re-read!

Then at 10PM, we shanghaied my Mama and lit out of the house so fast, I think I skipped in my 3-inch heels. I will have to think of something nice for my mother. I have such a wonderful mother that my own daughter made me promise that I'll be the kind of Lola that my mother is to her. DH and I haven't been out to a movie in days! The last movie we saw was a fantastic contrast for Music and Lyrics. That was a love-story-musical while Frank Miller's 300 is blood-bath-epic full of luscious naked men. I am sorry if I don't get the history of it all. That is just too much to ask when...didn't I just mention naked men? Yeah, yeah, they're wearing leather undies...but really, they're naked and caped! OMG, what's with caped-underwear-clod men? Superman Return for example.


Let me just say that this movie? Ripped and nippled (is there such a word?)! I kid you not. For a second there, I thought they might be wearing a nipple extender. The oracle did a wonderful, seductive, demon-possession dance. My skin crawled when that gross-looking old man put his lips on her skin. Yikes. I sure hope he's lovely underneath those fugly make-ups.

Is it just me was Xerxes gay? I mean, I know they can switch back and forth, silahis, we call it in my dialect, in that time period. Wasn't that why it was so hilarious in Saturday Night Live when they made that joke about the "sea men entering the rear" skit?. I just have a feeling that Xerxes might be far from effete. If he'd won that many battle and commanded that many men. What's with Alexander the movie played by Colin Farrel guy? They're all slightly build, very womanish-man. I'd have thought someone that powerful would be manly and strong. No offense to my gay readers ok? We're just talking build here of some of most powerful men in the army.

Frank Miller's Sin City was one of its kind, and this was too. I thought that it wasn't well-done of him to shroud the whole film dark like that because it gets it the way of my ogling. Honestly, I cannot see a pot-bellied man in there. Surreal!

I think this one is NOT to be missed if only to ogle Gerard Butler. What else can I say, except that man is beautiful naked!
OK, I have to go to Netflix now and rent all other Gerard Butler movies. I mean, seriously, no one can expect me to do anything less.

Not Stranger than Fiction

Why is it that when there's so much to do, there is not enough time to do it? When there's tons of stuff I had to do, that's when I get an infernal addiction which makes my chores very hard to accomplish.

For example, I had a lot of business tasks I must do right when I got addicted to Gilmore Girls. It's an addiction that won't quit. First, I handled it by watching only on weekends, but my local library happened to have all the six seasons in their stacks. I had to rent it. I cannot resist.

I was happily getting involved with Lorelai, and Rory, and Sookie and Luke. I got excited when Rory finally have a boyfriend, empathized when a bad boy came along and suddenly the good boy she has seems really boring. Clucked my tongue when Rory threw a good thing away, winced when that same bad boy treats her horribly.

I was horrified when Rory lost her virginity to Dean, a married guy by now. Oh. My. God. What was that? Keep in mind these are fictional character. I still think Lorelai is rude to her parents. After five seasons under my belt, I can now conclude that Lorelai treats her parents unfairly.

It's true her parents are snob, and rude to people not like them, but it still does not justify Lorelai treatment to them. Her parents always came through for her. She is way too bitchy for her parents. I rejoiced when Luke and Lorelai finally get together; shake my head in wonderment when Rory rejected another boring good guy like Marty and picked a rich playboy like Logan.

Whew. Underneath it all, I was feeling guilty that I spent so much time watching TV. I have neglected my reading. I only finished 2 books in 3 weeks! It is a very fortunate event that my children do their homework with least amount of proding because Mommy's on vacation!

Hopefully, there will be no more shows to get hook to after Gilmore Girls. I mean, are there any other show out there that's just as good? Really?