Chicken Fried Rice ^_^

For dinner tonight Maeve and I decided on yet another asian dish....we eat a lot of asian food in this house...which is only now becoming apparent to me. lol (Stir fry, orange chicken..fried rice..) Its either asian or barbecue. Anyway. There were some requests on Facebook, that if dinner tonight turned out good that I should share the recipe. So...here goes..because dinner was AMAZING. I never really used to like fried rice, I didn't like the egg. I always would try to pick the tiny pieces of egg out and then gave up because that just took forever. Since Maeve was born though my taste for eggs has returned. I ate scrambled eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner when we came home from the hospital. Yum. Alright, I'll shut up...recipe!!

Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients
1lb Chicken breast
1/2 cup sliced green onion
1/4 cup chopped bell pepper
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
3 cups of long grain rice, cooked and chilled
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 large eggs
Stir fry sauce (optional)

Note:  Alright so I decided to make this on a whim tonight...I didn't have an onions in the house, and I didn't have any ground ginger. So I didn't use them. It still tasted amazing though. The stir fry sauce was not on the original recipe, but everything tastes good with stir fry sauce, so I added some. I also used and entire green pepper, not just 1/4 cup. Maeve really likes peppers so it won't go to waste. 

Alright...

Step 1: Find the recipe. (No...it's not in that book Maeve)

Step 2: Put your baby on your back. (Go beco go!)

Step 3: Add rice and water to rice cooker and turn it on. (If you don't have a rice cooker....go buy one. It will make your life so much easier. If you don't want to buy one...then get a pot of water and cook your rice.)

Step 4: Cut chicken breast. (You can cut to strips or chunks. I like nugget sized chicken personally.)

Step 5: Cut pepper and onion and crush garlic. (I didn't have an onion, remember)

(well this looks pleasantly like something disgusting!)

Step 6: Heat about 2 tbsp of oil in a large skillet or wok.

 Step 7: Cook chicken on medium high heat until cooked through.

Step 8: Add 2 eggs to the bowl...

Step 9: ...and scramble.

Step 10: Once chicken is cooked, remove from skillet and set aside.

Step 11: Add pepper and onion to skillet, cook until crisp and tender. 

Step 12: Add garlic to skillet, cook and stir for 30 seconds longer. (I also added in about a teaspoon of butter at this step. Totally optional though.)

Step 13: Add cooked/chilled rice and soy sauce to skillet. (My rice was not chilled and I used a heck of a lot more than 2 tbsp of soy sauce)

Step 14: Blend all together, coating all rice with soy sauce.

Step 15: Pour in scrambled eggs, mix together and cook until set. 

Step 16: Return chicken to the skillet and cook until warm. (This is also where I added my stir fry sauce...and more soy sauce.)

Step 17: Serve!

Step 18: Take lots of pictures of an adorable baby trying to eat rice.

Enjoy!

How freakin' cute!

I had some extra fabric from a shirt that I had made for myself...(I'll post about that monstrosity later)...and I decided to make a skirt for Maeve. I bought 2 yards of this fabric for that reason. I planned on making her a dress but I used more fabric than I planned on for my shirt. Anyway....
I made her a skirt tonight and it is so freakin' cute!

Check it out!

I love it!...and I think Maeve does too!

I used the skirt tutorial from Dana @ MADE

Oh no!

Maeve has learned how to climb the steps. I was sitting with her in the kitchen when she decided to crawl over to the stairs. I didn't think she knew what to do yet...but she went right up to the landing.
She won't go any further than the landing though, I guess she feels like it is too steep...which I'm totally fine with. She can keep her butt on ground level. lol. I posted a video in the "Home Movies" page.

Enjoy

Maeve meets the Bunny!

I took Maeve to see the Easter Bunny today! She did great! She smiled real big, after the Easter Bunny pulled her hand out of her mouth anyway. lol. She is so stinkin' cute I can't take it!

Here's my beauty queen!  (If I don't stop calling her that I'm going to have to put her in pageants lol)

Maeve's Bedroom!

As most of everyone knew, not having a bedroom set up for Maeve was one of the hardest parts of living in Jersey for me. As much as I wanted to have my own house again, I wanted Maeve to have her own bedroom even more. This was the very 1st room we set up when we moved in. Literally...we got the keys on a Friday and Sean painted her room that night. lol. I've been meaning to take this pictures for a long time since this room has been on the only room done since we moved in...but I'm lazy. Anyway, I finally took them. I love her room...my favorite room in the house!

Here you go!

My Sewing Room!

Well today is Thursday which means Sewing/Computer room is on the cleaning schedule. Since I haven't posted any pictures of the house yet and now that everything is unpacked and put away, I thought I would add some pictures when I finished tidying up!

Here ya go!

Talking away...

Just wanted to leave note that I have added 2 new videos to the "Home Movies" page and that I've posted the March newsletter from CGC Midgett!
Check it out!