Groceries and other things I feel the need to share with you

Monday, I crossed the 170,000 mile mark on my car. This is kind of a big deal to me, since I was the one that put most of those miles on it. Most people my age are not racking the miles up like I am! Here's the catch though. My radiator has gone out! There is a crack in the radiator and the fan doesn't work. So, while I wait for my car to get fixed, I'm driving my Meanie. I love my motorcycle. Since I've got no car and I needed groceries in a bad way, I decided to take a big bag and some bungee cords and make the best of it on my motorcycle.

Here's what that looked like...

And here's everything INSIDE the bag.

How awesome am I? Very awesome. That's 30 items. The bread didn't get squished and I got everything on my list except a few veggies because the veggies at the store today were DEPLORABLE!! I mean, the red potatoes were mealy and they literally had 6 regular potatoes. What the heck is that about?

Ok, I'll stop ranting now.

Here's dinner. You don't get a picture, because it wasn't cute...but it was delicious.

Chicken and Rice Casarole

1 chicken breast
1/2 cup rice
1/2 cup water
1/2 can plus 2 table spoons of cream of chicken soup
Seasoned bread crumbs
1/2 small can of peas and carrots
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 400

1. In a small glass baking dish (remember those pyrex dishes I love so much? Yeah, use them...) put your rice, water and 2 tablespoons of the cream of chicken soup and mix them together in the glass baking dish.
2. Add the peas and carrots and mix them in with the rice. Set your chicken on top of the rice and veggies, and salt and pepper it if you want.
3. Top the chicken with the remaining cream of chicken soup and sprinkle with bread crumbs...I think I used 2-3 table spoons. It makes it nice and crunchy :)
4. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the chicken is cooked when you cut into it.

This is CRAZY easy to make. It literally took 2 minutes to whip together. Maybe less...if you can't make this, you might not have thumbs or you might not have a can opener. Those are really the only 2 viable reasons you should have trouble with this.


Two things before I leave you: Cans.

1. The small half cup cans of veggies are perfect for cooking for yourself. Tonight I did only use about half a can of the peas and carrots, but throw some foil on them and cook them tomorrow or just chunk the rest. It's like twenty cents worth of veggies in the trash...you decide.
2. They don't make soup in the small cans. It's annoying. It would be really handy to have the cream of whatever soups in the smaller sizes, but I don't think they would make them for just me...

Oh well. Happy Cooking!

Amy