COOKED MYSELF STUPID

Where did these last few days go?? I vaugely remember being wacked out with to much to do, expectations to high, needing more sleep. This weekend was Middle Booger's Birthday. I had high hopes of themed decorating, lots of delicious and great looking appetizers and another gorgeous cake decorated by moi. Then I had reality and a mini nervous breakdown Friday afternoon. Screaming in the shower is therapy for the soul. God is working with me to lower my expectations, to relax, to know that a Wal Mart birthday cake really is OK. Gotta be careful though, I relax myself right into an I don't care coma. Will post more on Willy D's party later. Today, true to form we laid around a little bit, however I don't remember hearing the explosion to explain why my house looked the way it did this morning. So we cleaned til noon.

Rest of the day I spent cooking, I love to cook, I find it relaxing, until cleanup time, see pix further down. I bagged my first freezer meal, then started on my second
CROCKPOT BEEF AND BLACK EYED PEA SOUP
http://busycooks.about.com/od/hotsouprecipes/r/beefblackeyepea.htm
Here I have chopped my carrots, added garlic and pepper for each of the 6 meals, and chopped the meat for my first meal.

Here you see it all mixed, bagged, labeled and ready to go in the freezer.








Next I made a FROZEN PEANUT BUTTER PIE from a set of cookbooks my mom got me for Christmas, "Eagle Brand Classic Recipes"
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Frozen-Peanut-Butter-Cheesecake/Detail.aspx?width=300
I bought Cocoa Pebbles for the crust because I didn't read the recipe well at first, I don't think it matters.

I did not have chocolate ice cream topping so I made my own, and left the kitchen for a few minutes, mybad. I will try this one again though, it has perfect thick syrupy consistency. The pot however, is still soaking.
CHOCOLATE HOT FUDGE SAUCE
http://southernfood.about.com/od/dessertsaucerecipes/r/bl30621a.htm






The kitchen was clean at 10am, this is what it looked like at 4pm. sigh.
Fortunately, outside of some Rotel Dip for the playoff game (GO PACKERS), I did not cook lunch or supper. In this house, the birthday dude gets to choose each meal for that day.
Breakfast-Bagels with Bluberry Spread
Lunch - McDonald's
Dinner -Pizza Delivered (we don't eat out much, I love to cook, tough noogies)

Tomorrow is a holiday, I have great low expectation plans for tomorrow, no where to go but up!!

Tootles!!