TUTENESS

  As promised, I took more pics of the kids today than food.   You’ll see that my shuttercal for today was an easy one – green monster!  Done and done!  I soooo didn’t cook today and we coasted on leftovers.  I love days like this!  Anyway, here are the pics of the kids from today:

Dylan doing a paint by numbers.  He does, um, okay?  LOL!  Staying in the lines is for suckers anyway!Avery, showing off her hair being done.  I asked her if I could take a picture of her pretty hair and she immediately assumed the position.  

She and I match with our little baby hairs coming in.  Moms will know what I mean.

Hammin’ it up for me.

Just love her little hands!  So TUTE! I suggested a mini photo shoot and you know Dylan was all over it.  Anytime he can get his hands on the remote, he’s all for it.  Again, I mentioned a picture and Avery got into place all cute (or TUTE)-like.  

I am admiring her tuteness.

Ahh, they make me happy!  

Uh oh – but I don’t like this!  Who made Avos mad?! Ahhh yes, she is mad because Dylan can fold washcloths and she can’t.  Seriously.  That’s why she was mad.

 

He folded that WHOLE stack there!  He’s totally hired. Finally she calmed down enough to listen to a little tutorial.  I don’t think I’m going to hire her yet.  

Well, I’m gonna go watch tv  ahem, work on the 2009 picture book project. Later!

Chile Verde

Good morning!  Check out what we had for din din last night.  Chile Verde.  It was pretty darn good, I must say.  This is from the Williams-Sonoma Slow Cooker: Food Made Fast cookbook that my mom gave me for Christmas.  It was pretty easy to make.  Only bad part is cutting up the meat.  I HATE cutting up meat.  But oh well.  This time, it was worth it (nothing worse than cutting up a bunch of meat and having it turn out just so-so).  Here’s the recipe (and I’m typing this out out of the goodness of my heart, so you better be trying it, peeps!):

Chile Verde

William Sonoma Slow Cooker : Food Made Fast

8 oz canned roasted whole green chiles
3 lb boneless pork shoulder, cut into 1 inch pieces

2 cups chicken broth (make sure you do low sodium – I think it would be much too salty if you did regular chicken broth)
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp dried oregano
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp white pepper
Steamed white rice (brown rice is better for you, Williams Sonoma! Clearly, we did brown rice.)
Sour cream

Cilantro
Whatever else you want to put on top – avocado, tomato, etc.

1. Put the chiles and their liquid in the slow cooker, tearing the chiles into coarse strips with your fingers (I just did chopped green chiles – much easier!).  Stir in the pork, chicken broth, garlic, oregano, 1 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp white pepper.  Cover and cook on the high heat setting for 4 hours OR on the low heat setting for 8 hours (we did the low setting for 8 hours – meat was fabulously tender!). 

2. Ladle the stew over steamed rice and serve.  Top with sour cream, cilantro, etc. 
That’s all for now!  I need some pics of the kids today.  Avery FINALLY is letting me pull the hair out of her eyes and into a ponytail so I should probably document it.  I’ve just been so consumed with figuring out what will be my Shuttercal pic of the day.  I’ve forgotten how hard it is!  At least doing this project will remind me that I still have to finish my 2009 book documenting my 2009 Shuttercal project.  I better get on that!  Maybe I’ll do it tonight!  Yes!  Way to set goals, Trishy!

Later!

Shuttercal.com

So I'm trying something new!  My very cool sister in law Renae started doing this picture a day thing (in an effort to take more pictures and get better at taking pictures - not that she needed help, but she would like to upstage my brother I think) and posting the pic on a website called Shuttercal.  At first I said, "You're nuts!  Everyday?!"  But now that I've seen her calendar for January filling up with fun pics - I thought it DID seem kinda fun!  So I copied her and made one too.  Mine is a little sparse compared to hers, but it will fill up and become more fun.  So bookmark it and check back!  

http://shuttercal.com/calendar/DylansMom/

Here is a link to Renae's too, if you wanted to see a more "decorated" Shuttercal.  

http://shuttercal.com/calendar/renjkson/