Just a Mom, HA!

APEricots Giveaway from “For the Love”

Anyone ever hear of APEricots?  It’s an adorable site that offers super-cute and organic baby clothes with lots of fun designs (or an option to design your own).

This is the link for the cutie-pants website: http://www.apericots.com/ where you can browse the merchandise, read up on the products/company, or just gawk at the little angel models that they use (I just wanna kiss those cheeks, don’t you?).

Now, what’s even better than cute baby clothes?

FREE cute baby clothes!  The Mommy blog, For the Love, is hosting a giveaway for a $25 Apericots gift certificate.  Even if you don’t have little kiddos, this is a prize worth winning for grandkids, baby showers, all kinds of things!  Here’s the link to enter to win: http://sarandtrav.blogspot.com/2010/02/apericots-giveaway.html

Good luck! This contest ends on 2-29.

Another Approach to my Stuffing Casserole

I love hearing back from people who try my recipes.  It tickles my heart just as much as the food tickles my taste buds!

This past week I got an email from my sister-in-law who is a self proclaimed “tentative, fledgling cook.”  With a goal to make a new recipe each month, and a diet consisting of little chicken or beef, she took my recipe for Stuffing Casserole and tweaked it enough to make it her own.  What even more encouraging was that it was delicious!

Here’s her message, idea for the recipe and picture:

Hey Kim, I finally got up the courage to make one of your recipes, so I thought I’d give you a detailed report. Given that we’re not big meat eaters in our family–especially not chicken for some reason–and because we are trying to eat more veggies, I adjusted the recipe a little and I’m happy to report that it turned out edible! Even “great” according to ["Perfect" Bro]. But I think I may have tweaked it a little too much because it was a little spicy.

Despite having a bit of a kick to it, I think the overall result was a success. Here’s what I did:

1. Instead of 4 chicken breasts, I used 2 free-range turkey breasts.
2. I used a small onion, b/c B doesn’t like too much onion.
3. I made up for the lack of meat by adding 2 cups of organic frozen peas and carrots, instead of 1 cup.
4. I also used Stove Top’s turkey stuffing (also left over from the holidays), but was concerned that since I was using turkey instead of chicken that the cream of chicken soup would clash with the turkey on our taste buds. And since WholeFoods–where I did my shopping for this meal instead of the sub-par NYC grocery store in our neighborhood–didn’t have the soup you suggested, I decided to take a risk with organic cream of mushroom soup instead. I thought it would add more veggies, too, and make the dish even more tasty. I think that’s where I went wrong and where the “spice factor” came from.
5. I also added a little extra ground pepper and ground sea salt, which may have been too much considering the 1/4 teaspoon of pepper i already added and given that the stuffing is probably already salty. Not to mention the soup.

Considering this was my first casserole and that we both had 2 servings at dinner, I consider it a success.

Thanks for your contribution Dub-Dawg!  Good luck on next month’s endeavor!