The time has come

Well moving is slowing coming upon us. We have people coming to move the furniture this week!!! Ahhh! and Eeeeeeeeee!!!! You never really realize how much stuff you can have before you go to pick it up and move it to another location. My little car has been stuffed to the gills with things haha!

No cooking for me this week, so far the only thing that I have made is a box of mac and cheese. Its just to crazy to cook, I have been looking on Pinterest before I go to sleep so once I am settled in the new place you can bet your bottom dollar that I will be churning out some good stuff! I am so excited for this new kitchen, its bigger, and has way more cabinet and counter space...and an island!!! Eeeeeee!!! (hopping up and down!)

Anyways, the kittens have been growing like weeds (my how quickly the time flies) We will be taking them and getting them fixed soon (poor little babies)! They are each developing their own personalities, Moxie is a mommy's girl, she cuddles with me the most and most nights she will sleep with me. Luna is sort of a loner, but she is a jumpy little thing, just about everything scares her, but she is getting better, they both have discovered that they can make it to the top of the cabinets in the upper row of the kitchen, just like little man. Luna makes it up there and sleeps, but when it comes time to get down, I think she gets scared and she freaks out and starts meowing and crying and being crazy until you come and get her down from the top of the refrigerator.

I hope that all of you are doing well, I want to apologize that I haven't been a faithful blogger like I have been previously, but I promise that I will start back up when I have the time.


Thanks for reading this, here is a few pictures that will hopefully brighten up your day!

All Good News

It's all coming up roses or daisies (whichever one sounds right to you)!

Just a quick little backstory for part of the good news this month so far. Isis who was the grouchy little lover girl that we had that didn't like being confined to the apartment that went to stay with my parents ran away. She was gone for a long long time. She had never pent more than an hour probably total outside in her life previously to this time. We all thought that something like a coyote  or a bobcat or something got her. WE WERE WRONG!!!!! Hallelujah!!!! She came waltzing back onto my parents porch and just strutted inside when my Mom opened the door like the owned the place. She is very very skinny but otherwise she looks in good shape for being gone almost a month. The story of her going missing is that she knocked over one of those pretty thermometers with the glass bulbs filled with the different color liquid and got the kerosene smelling stuff on her. Isis being Isis ad the dainty princess she is didn't like this one bit. When my mom went to go let her other cat Cleo in the house Isis darted out and was never seen again until now!!!! But she is back and she is alive!!!!!!! I/we are so happy!!!!

See!! Isn't she beautiful!

Just so you can see the progress of the other little lovers ( I am animal obsessed I know!!)

I might as well just start a list of good things that have happened as well as the negative things jut to give you guys some perspective.

Pro
We are moving into a bigger place!
My beloved (David) had a birthday!
My health is going great so far and so is my family's (sans a poor little cousin with strep...sad face)
The little lovers are growing and being great
My Gerbera Daisy my sister bought for me that i thought died, is sprouting new leaves
I have a something else I want to add here but I don't want to spoil it in case if it doesn't happen. Don't worry its professionally related.

Con
I lost my job last week :-( I really enjoyed it there for the most part and I really loved my co-workers. They are wonderful and I wish each one of them the best of luck, love, peace, happiness, harmony and, any other good wonderful fantastic thing you can think of.

I have been applying to a ton of places so hopefully God will see me through yet another obstacle or as I am beginning to call them lessons/character building times. Prayers are appreciated.

So with just one con on the list I think that so far April might be amazing. I hope that all of you will be having an amazing April as well as the rest of the year. I am making a new resolution for May that I will be more diligent on writing this blog. I really enjoy doing it, but with everything going on so far this month it's been hard to find the time. I will add more recipes etc. I will be throwing together some old reliable favorites for the crock pot these next couple weeks while we move. If you have a recipe that you have tried and liked please feel free to leave a comment or to send me an email and I can feature it! landoffoodandkitties@gmail.com

Stay wonderful, happy and in love!
Rach

Live from the Deck

Hello everyone! Hopefully the week is going wonderful for you all! I am sitting in the sun on my back deck enjoying this glorious weather! Its beautiful here today, and yesterday, and I think the day before that!! I am sooo happy! Spring time is coming (well technically it is already here according to the calendar but you could have fooled me, ice and snow this past weekend, boo!) If you haven't been able to guess, I sort of really have an intense dislike for all things cold, and winter. I am a summer person, and spring. It makes me happy. Being outside is the best thing, especially when you are cramped up in an office all day long like a lot of people are around here. Makes me miss living in the country where you can be outside all of the time.


The recipe of today is something that I made some time ago but forgot to put on here. We were all starving so sorry that I didn't get a good picture before it got half demolished. This recipe is pretty easy to do, bakes up nicely.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

INgredients

1 whole Cooked Chicken, Bones Removed, Meat Diced Or Shredded (rotisserie Chicken Is Excellent, Should Be 5-6 Cups Of Chicken
1/2 pound of thinly sliced ham roughly chopped (I used Honey ham and it turned out great)
1/4 pound of thin sliced Swiss cheese

For the Sauce ingredients

 4 Tablespoons Butter
4 Tablespoons Flour
3-¼ cups Milk (I Used Whole Milk)
2 Tablespoons Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Dijon Mustard
1-½ teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoons Smoked Paprika
¼ teaspoons White Pepper

For the Topping
 6 Tablespoons Butter
1-½ cup Panko Bread Crumbs (I would recommend only using 1 cup. I used the 1.5 C and it was to much)
¾ teaspoons Seasoning Salt
1-½ teaspoon Crushed Dried Parsley


1) spray your dish with nonstick spray,
2) place the chicken in the bottom of the dish
3) then the ham
4) then the Swiss cheese

5) then you start on the sauce, melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
6) stir in the flour and let cook for a couple minutes until bubbling and smooth
7) slowly start to add the milk, cook until thickened.
8) add the lemon juice, the mustard, salt, paprika, and white pepper. Bring to a boil then remove from heat.
 9) pour the sauce on top of the cheese layer of the casserole.

10) to make the topping melt the butter, stir in the bread crumbs, the seasoning salt, and parsley. (I took away the seasoning salt and added Parmesan cheese instead)

11) place the topping on the top of the casserole. Bake at 350 until the top is golden brown and the sauce is bubbling (I baked mine for about 45 minutes or so)