It’s Definitely A Baby.

So yeah . . . it’s definitely a baby. And all signs lead to it being a spaz like me me with a heartbeat of 172 beats a minute. Due date October 26th. Don’t forget to follow Anna’s journal at littlebitbrown.wordpress.com.

Also, you may want to add me as a friend on Twitter. Because if not, you won’t be able to follow my experiences at the OB-GYN. For those who missed it, here are my tweets. To be read in reverse order.

Now if I can just convince Anna to let me tweet from the delivery room we’ll be in business.

More Lomography Pics.

I took some pictures while were in New Orleans over New Year’s with my lomo camera. I didn’t edit them at all outside of adding some frames around them. This camera is a love/hate deal. I can take 1 photo and it comes out incredible fuzzy and then I can take another shot immediately and it might come out bright and popping. It really is unpredictable. Here’s my full lomo set on Flickr and here’s my previous post on lomography.

Recipe Share: Green Chili Chicken.

I made Green Chili Chicken tonight. It’s not a chili. But is chicken with green chilies. Anna ate hers with some orzo and I went solo with some rosemary rolls. Once again the recipe is courtesy of the great cooking, social networking site GroupRecipes.com. And Anna would like you to know that she had some 2 buck chuck from Trader Joe’s that was good. I think she’s going to have a headache in 5 minutes. The recipe gets a 5 out of 5.

Ingredients:
4 chicken breast halves
1 cup of chicken broth
2 tbsp. of chopped cilantro
4 oz. of chopped green chilies
1 cup of heavy cream
4 oz. of chredded monterey jack cheese
2 slices bacon
2 cloves of minced garlic

Directions:
1. First you want to preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Now take a skillet, you can now fry the bacon until crisp.
3. Drain on paper towel.
4. Now saute chicken in bacon fat turning only once, till brown.
5. Remove chicken, but you need to keep warm.
6. Then add the chicken broth and simmer until reduced to half (we didn’t do it long enough so our sauce wasn’t as thick as it should have been)
7. Now put chicken into an oven dish.
8. Now add the garlic, cilantro, undrained chilis and cream.
9. This needs to bake uncovered, until chicken is done approx. 30 minutes.
11. Take the chicken out and add the crumbled bacon and cheese to chicken and put in the microwave to melt.
12. Serve.

Sorry but the only picture we got was with it cooking. We inhaled it as soon as it came out of the oven. But basically the chicken was underneath that. And Anna poured the sauce over the orzo and cut up her chicken and put it on top.

Recipe Share: Garlic Chicken Pizza.

I made a garlic, chicken pizza tonight that was amazing. Obviously we’re 80 year olds since it’s only 6 o’clock and we’ve had time to cook, eat, and blog about it. Once again the recipe is courtesy of the great cooking, social networking site GroupRecipes.com. I modified it a bit to our taste. It gets a 5 out of 5. I’m with the Tall Skinny Kiwi though, I’d die for a brick oven.

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons softened butter
2 cloves minced garlic
2 tbspns chopped green onion
1 skinless boneless chicken breast half
1/2 tspn dried basil
1/2 cup chopped cilantro (a 1/2 cup of cilantro leaves, finely chopped)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
2 diced roma plum tomatoes
1 cup mixed cheese
1 8oz can of tomato sauce
1 10 oz can refrigerated pizza crust dough (we used a pre-made crust from Whole Foods)

Directions:
1. Put your chicken breast in a saucepan with enough water to submerge it. Bring the water to a boil and cook until the chicken is no longer pink (and the juices are clear…approximately 20 minutes). Drain the chicken then cut it into medium-sized strips.
2. Preheat your oven to 350 F (in hindsight I might push it to 400 F).
3. Melt the butter, garlic, basil, cilantro, sauce, and onion in a skillet over medium heat. Pour this sauce into a dish and refrigerate it until it sets.
4. Now roll out your pizza dough nice and flat. Place it onto a baking sheet and evenly spread your herb butter sauce over the surface (the back of a spoon works nicely). Spread the chicken strips over the pizza then sprinkle with cheese. And finally finish the toppings off with slices of tomatoes, cilantro and Parmesan.
5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the aforementioned preheated oven. The pizza crust will brown when it is finished. Let the pizza cool before slicing and serving.

And no recipe would be complete without pictures to verify it’s deliciousness (full set here).

Surf Mocumentary.

Yesterday Anna and I went down to The Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge which is basically a 15 mile strip of beach that is protected from development. This is where we usually go when we’re down here because there are usually a total of about 6 people for as far as the eye can see. Plus the beach is teeming (yes I just said teeming) with wildlife (birds, crabs, clams, jelly fish, rays, dolphins, etc). The dunes haven’t been touched or knocked down and the beach is actually covered with shells and sand dollars so dense that if you’re not careful you’ll cut your foot open. Anyway . . . we went walking for a couple of miles and took some pictures and then watched the sunset. I edited some pictures to make them look like a vintage surf film or just old beach pictures. I even overlaid some of them with over-saturated pictures (here and here) I took of the shoreline. You can see the normal set here and the old school ones here. BTW Mom – I’m smoking Cloves and not wacky tabaccy.