This was an experiment, but it came out really good. I measured very little…as usual
This is what I used
Individually frozen Chicken breast tenderloins
Corn Starch
Dried Rosemary
Garlic Powder
Salt
Pepper
White Wine and Herb Chicken Broth
White Wine
Water
Matzo Ball Mix
Sour Cream
I think I used about 8-10 tenderloins. You could probably use less, there was a lot of chicken in this. I seasoned them with salt, pepper, garlic and rosemary, then very lightly dusted them with cornstarch. I browned them in olive oil in a skillet.
While they were browning I followed the package instructions for the matzo balls, except I added rosemary, garlic and black pepper.
I poured the chicken broth into a 2 cup measuring cup and into a pot. It was just shy of 4 cups of broth. I added enough water to make it 4 cups + 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup of a dry white wine. I added more garlic powder to the broth and heated it to boiling.
When the chicken was nicely browned and crusted on both sides, but still a bit pink in the middle, I removed it from the skillet and chopped it into bite-sized chunks. I added the chicken to the broth…carefully, it splashed easily.
After the matzo ball mix had sat the 15 mins the package specified, I formed it into balls and dropped into the boiling broth. Then I reduced the heat to a simmer, covered and let it cook 30 minutes. After I removed it from the heat I gently stirred in 1/3-1/2 of a small container of sour cream.
This would probably good with onions, carrots and celery cooked in it as well, I just didn’t do it.
Been a lot going on behind the scenes. Not going into all that yet.
WoW-wise I have been doing PvP and helping Dan on his hunter and then Dan with his Priest and Rugal with his Warlock that they play together. Hard to believe they are getting close to being ready for Outlands. I almost have all my marks. I think I need 35 more Alterac and I’ll have the 90 I need. Honorwise I still need like 60 some thousand. But once I get my marks I am just gonna do the battlegrounds I really like. I will admit Alterac is growing on me. I like it when it goes smooth but hate when there’s like 10 afk people on our side. Or all but 2 people on offense or defense.
I am going to get Lumi in a different guild. I love Kamikaze Runners but no one is ever on. I understand they have other stuff going on, I just would like Lumi to be in a guild where I can help people and so if I need another person for an instance it isn’t a matter of “Do you have any tanks/DPS from your guild on we can get to help?” *me checking guild tab* “Uhm no, I am the only one on.” Dan’s main is guildless at the moment so we are gonna find a good one for both of us to join together.
Dan awesomely helped me last night. He helped me work on Argent Dawn rep (such a GRIND) and helped me get the Crusader weapon enchant. I thought it would take forever to get, but it took like 16 minutes with his help.
Other than the stuff I don’t feel like talking about there isn’t much going on. Oh my bike should be here this week. So then I am gonna start biking the 3 miles to work.
Well I am trying to get the Epic set for Lumi. I have done only battlegrounds this weekend. To get the set I need 65,250 honor, 30 Warsung Gulch marks, 50 Arathi Marks and 50 Alterac Marks. To get the staff and wand I need another 36,000 honor, 40 Alterac and 10 Eye of the Storm. Not counting the marks I need if I want a mount (30 WSG, 30 Arathi and 30 Alterac) . Oh plus if I buy gems in Hall of Legends…prolly need more lol. It all sounds overwhelming lol.
I currently have 10,611 honor, 21 WSG, 58 Arathi, 7 Alterac and 5 Eye of the Storm.
Dan kept telling me I needed to PvP before Lumi hit 70 so I could get the gear at 70 because PvP at 70 is hard without the gear. I have always been pretty chicken about Battlegrounds. Until last night the only one Lumi had been in was the Alterac Valley Dan took me in.
Now I could really kick myself for not getting that minipet!!!! (Yes Dan, you told me so >.< lol. It's my fault and mine alone)
Anyway, last night he had a lot of homework and was urging me to do PvP. It took me over an hour to get brave enough to queue up >.< This time instead of running out in the open in Warsong Gulch, I went to our flag room to help defend it. Anything red that came in I blasted. We won. So I ended up doing another Warsong, 1 Alterac, 1 Arathi and 1 Eye of the Storm last night. We won them all. I had a major adrenaline rush, so it took a while before I could go to bed. Man once it started wearing off though I was crashing!
The Call to Arms daily today was Arathi. I queued up in Arathi and Warsong before work hoping I’d get in one. Ended up in Arathi and we won. I think I am getting hooked hehe.
I wish I could eat anything other than soup without it feeling like it turned into a lead ball in my stomach. Haven’t posted lately it’s been a rough few days. Hopefully things settle soon. Keeping an eye on the storms in the Atlantic, Ike may be a problem a week or more from now. Not sure about Josephine.
I feel like I am constantly on the verge of an anxiety attack and today just has this very surreal feeling like everything is slightly off kilter or out of synch.
*faints*
I went to bed at like 9:30 last night and despite taking stuff to help me sleep I woke up at 1 am. I tried to go back to sleep and gave up after 30-40 mins. I logged on WoW and it was just in time to see Dan sending a mass whisper about raiding Southshore. I decided what the heck and told him I was on my way. Unfortunately it wasn’t a big raid…not many Alliance came, but he said there had been more earlier. It was still fun tho *evil grin*. I played Let the Bodies Hit the Floor while we were raiding. So then he said let’s do AV…so what the heck. We lost (so no dragon), but Lumi is no longer a BG/PvP virgin hehe.
Dan has been sending me links to music from the various Metal Gear Solid games. I love it. I haven’t played the games, but is making me want to. One of them is called The Best Is Yet to Come. That song is beautiful!
Well I just noticed my last mention of Lumine was June 29 and she was level 51 O.o
She is now 90% of the way to 67 …I took about a week off (well I would login and then end up spending most of my time sitting in Org or somewhere) and built up about 700k rested. I have about 200k left. so *maybe* it will get me to 68.
Enchanting is up to 301, Tailoring is 350. I did my spellcloth quest, I just need motes of fire and mana so I can make it. I have been finishing up Terokkar and questing in Nagrand. I got Miniwing…(purple and white parrot). I am gonna try to get into a BG and get the special dragon I haven’t done a BG with her at all so this may be interesting lol. I feel for the people I end up grouped with hehe.
I baked some chicken tonight and it came out really yummy. Heres what I did:
Took a package of 4 skinless bone-in breasts and dumped the following on each one:
little bit of lime salt
1/4 tsp smoked paprika
1/4 tsp good chili powder
generous couple dashes of ground cumin
3-4 dashes of Tabasco Smoked Jalepeño (aka Chipotle) sauce
I rubbed that all over the front and back of the chicken then added some salt and coarse ground pepper. I drizzled it generously with Olive oil and baked it at 375 for about 1 and 1/2 hours. 3 times I brushed the olive oil over the meat and I covered with foil about 1/2 way through. I added more olive oil if needed and would flip the pieces around in it to make sure they stayed moist.
I don’t like how I get/feel when my life feels like everything is uncertain. Something is gonna have to give and soon. So everyone bear with me…specially you Dan…you are the one I have gone into a million pieces with the most. I am sorry. I know I have been an emotional pain in the ass with all my mood swings.
I am so thankful for Diva and Dan and everyone else who has given me advice. And Peter…let me know if you and your family are ok. I am worried since you said yall have been having bad storms and I haven’t seen you in a week.
I never knew my father
I never knew his pain
Or that an empty home life
Would break him down again
So when I feel like running I have to look inside
I want to find the answer
I want to break my line
Fear falls down like rain
And it makes me whole again
Fear falls like rain
Take me as I am
I’m not broken
Pieces of my life are not tokens
I want to let you know that I’m still learning
How to love again and stop hurting
I want to roll my darkness into a million suns
I need to find forgiveness when all the pain is done
I want to hear I’m sorry, I want to let you go
I have to find my own life, I want to learn to grow
Fear falls down like rain
And it makes me whole again
Fear falls like rain
Take me as I am
I’m not broken
Pieces of my life are not tokens
I want to let you know that I’m still learning
How to love again and stop hurting
It makes me whole again
Take me as I am
I’m not broken
Pieces of my life are not tokens
I want to let you know that I’m still learning
How to love again and stop hurting
Most of my birthday money went towards bills but Russ’s mom gave me 20 and said I was not allowed to use it on bills. I bought Daughtry’s self titled CD with it. Russ bought me OneRepublic’s album Dreaming Out Loud. I also used $20 and bought 4 cds off Amazon. Sum 41 – Chuck, Stereofuse – All that Remains, Stereofuse – Stereofuse and CrashBox – CrashBox. I also eventually want Benny Benassi – …Phobia and Hypnotica as well as some of Default’s albums.
OneRepublic is easily becoming one of my favorite groups. Their sound is so varied. Right now their song All Fall Down is on. I love the rhythm of it.
Pieces was my favorite song by Sum 41, but after getting the album I like almost all the songs a lot.
My mood is a little better today. Probably because it is Saturday. Still tired though.
About the only thing I would change is the 23 to 33
Pardon me while I burst…
A decade ago,
I never thought I would be,
at twenty-three, on the verge of
spontaneous combustion. -Woe-is-me.-
But I guess that it comes
with the territory,
An ominous landscape of
never-ending calamity.
I need you to hear,
I need you to see
that I have had all I can take and
exploding seems like a DEFINITE possibility
to me.
So pardon me while I burst
into flames.
I’ve had enough of the world
and its people’s mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn
and rise above the flame.
Pardon me, pardon me…
I’ll never be the same!
Not two days ago,
I was having a look
in a book
and I saw a picture of a guy
fried up above his knee.
I said, “I can relate,”
cause lately I’ve been thinking of combustication
as a welcome vacation from
the burdens of
the planet Earth.
like gravity, hypocrisy,
and the perils of being in 3-D…
but thinking so much differently.
Pardon me while I burst
into flames.
I’ve had enough of the world
and its people’s mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn
and rise above the flame.
Pardon me, pardon me…
I’ll never be the same!
Never be the same, yeah…
Pardon me, while I burst into flames…
Pardon me, pardon me, pardon me.
So pardon me while I burst
into flames.
I’ve had enough of the world
and its people’s mindless games.
So pardon me while I burn
and rise above the flame.
Pardon me, pardon me…
I’ll never be the same!
When we went to the store yesterday to get stuff for dinner I spotted these “Dove Desserts: Tiramisu Silky Smooth Dark Chocolate Promises”. I am a Tiramisu fanatic even though I don’t let myself have it that often. So I splurged and got them.
I do love Dove Dark Chocolate. It is so smooth and yummy and has an awesome mouth feel, BUT they kinda messed up on the Tiramisu bit. Not that these taste bad, but it is not Tiramisu. Tiramisu is light and fluffy and tastes of cream, Mascarpone cheese, rum, coffee and chocolate with ladyfingers or sponge cake. These chocolates of course taste of chocolate, and also coffee and almost a buttered rum. They also used caramel instead of a cream filling. So, I like them but they will not stave off a Tiramisu craving.
All Dove Promises have these little sayings on the inside of the wrapper. Since I am having an identity crisis I paid closer attention to these than usual. In the 24 hrs since I bought these I have had 5. In order here are the messages I have gotten:
Scott Stapp - Surround Me lyrics
They say no man's an island but I tend to disagree
I guess they've never seen my island,
And where it lies at sea
I'm lost inside my memory.
I'm still in disbelief.
If I could paint a picture for you this is what you'd see
I'm down on my knees
Begging you to rescue me
Please stop me
Don't let me run
Surround me...Surround me...now
A wounded man sounds desperate when he's lost all his belief
Can you look into my eyes and say you won't betray me
Where running out of time
How precious time can be
I'm counting all the moments of the times you could have helped me
I'm down on my knees
Begging you to rescue me
Please stop me
Don't let me run
Surround me...Surround me
I'm down on my knees
Begging you to rescue me
Please stop me
Don't let me run
Surround me...Surround me
Surround me now
Song lyrics | Surround Me lyrics
(Video is not the best)