Christmas!!

Christmas was different this year - it was my first Christmas away from my family, my second major holiday away as well (this Thanksgiving I wasn't able to go home due to work).  Brent and I spent it by ourselves (oh, and Zeusy, too).  It was nice.  We had Papa Murphy's pizza on Christmas Eve and watched movies (Easy A and Salt - Both were VERY good).  We drank mimosas all weekend and I made Nog French Toast ("Nog" because I used Silk's "egg" nog).  Here's a few photos from the weekend.

Cooking stuffs!

New floor mats!

Of course, new socks (and undies, but no pic of those).

Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book!

Magic Mouse - he looks overly excited...

Zeus likes the paper :)

iTunes giftcard!

FUZZY SOCKS!

Mom gave us a bottle of wine

Keyboard

New cookware!

Troy got us "Despicable Me" on Bluray - This little dude came with it! :D

All in all, it was a good holiday.  I do miss my family, but being surrounded by my own little "family" and friends helped make up for it.

Project Life

Zeus's xmas gift for Dad :)

WooWooo!

I got to use my rice cooker!  I forgot to take pictures of my meal, but I made a FANTASTIC chicken stir fry.  The chicken turned out perfect!  It was tender and juicy, not at all like the tough chicken you get in a lot of stir frys.

I purchased a bottle of Kikkoman stir fry sauce and cut chicken into strips, about 1/2" - 1".  I put 1 tbsp of corn starch in a large plastic Zip-Lock bag and pouring some of the sauce in there, mixing it well and then tossing in the chicken, coating it.  Throw that in the fridge for about 30 minutes.

Heat up a large skillet with a bit of vegetable oil and throw the marinated chicken in there.  I cooked it through and removed it from the heat, putting it in a glass bowl.  Throw some of your favorite veggies into that skillet, pouring a bit of the stir fry sauce over it, cooking them until tender.   Mix the chicken back in.  Serve on top of rice.

It was soo good!  I was proud of myself.  Brent likes his with some of those crunchy noodle things on them, but I just put a bit of low sodium soy sauce on mine.

The only thing that sucked was the rice didn't cook quite right because it was my first time.  I was kind of a newb at all of this.  It was quite dry, but the soy sauce helped out a bit.

But, mmmm-mmmmmmmmmmmm!!