Freezer Cooking first: Teriyaki Chicken

I'm taking a meal to a sweet family with a new addition.  Build your own tacos to be exact.  You know, meat, taco shells and all the fixin's.  I decided I would take them something to stick in their freezer too.  I mentioned this website in an earlier post and pulled it out finally to use this weekend.  The recipe makes two bags {read: batches} and was oober easy to throw together. For two batches: medium - large bag of carrots (I used 3 large handfuls of carrots for each bag) red onion cut into large chunks 2 large cans pineapple, undrained 4 garlic cloves (I used a heaping teaspoon of garlic for each bag - I was running low!) 4 chicken breasts (I added an extra  small chicken breast to her bag since it was going for a family of 4, not including precious baby :)) 1 cup teriyaki sauce 2 gallon sized freezer bags Directions Prepare your two bags.  First, write directions on the bag. (Add 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce {or water} to crock pot. Cook high for 4 or low for 8.  Serve over rice.) Then split the ingredients into each bag.  Shake it up.  Remove as much air as possible. Seal.  Put in the freezer.   To use from the freezer:  Remove from freezer the night before you want to use.  Let it thaw in the refrigerator over night.  Then prepare in the crockpot. Hers is ready to be delivered to her today.  I kept it in the refrigerator so that she could decide whether she wanted to place it in the freezer or not. Mine has found a home in the freezer for future use! The Verdict To be determined...  I'll let you know how it tastes! As far as ease of preparation, I'm super stoked at how easy it was! I've never made a complete crockpot meal to stick in the freezer before.  The lady from the blog swears by it and freezer prepares her meals a month in advance.  Wouldn't it be nice to have that much freezer space! Stay tuned!

Couscous Salad with Salmon

Enter Daylight Savings time and you'll get a big fat helping of laziness on my part around here!  So much so that I let the tomatoes I bought on Wednesday go bad... I had planned out a freezer friendly recipe to cook on Thursday.  Yeah, I froze the chicken thighs and used the ingredients I'd bought for other things.  I was going to use the tomatoes tonight in the couscous salad.  Boo.  Anyway... it turned out quite tasty this time around!  You really can add just about anything to couscous to make it your own.  And that is exactly what I did.  The best part... it took just minutes to have dinner together thanks to some salmon I had already cooked on Friday.

Crockpot Shrimp Stir-fry

Holy Moly, what a week.  I've missed you guys!  Sorry I didn't post, like, at all.  Yeah, super sorry.  We're still trying to recover from no sleep with baby.  He's fiiiiiiinnnalllly on a better schedule.  Yep, between 10 and 11 at night he's down.  And that's WAY better than the 2, 3, or 4 am play-fests we used to have. I pretty much laid around and tried to rest last week.  I felt like I had a newborn again.  My husband and I were staying up late even after the baby was asleep, just to hear the silence.  Well, and a little Super Mario - just like the old days - for Wii was played until 12 or 1:00.  We're to the LAST castle, round 2.  We've already beat the game once and we're about to beat it again.  Ahhh, the old days.  My DH and I have finally realized that we need some more sleep.  Ha.

So, needless to say, last week I didn't make it to the grocery store.  My kitchen sink was overflowing with dishes.  We ate out more times than I'd like to admit.  And one day I had the exact same salad for lunch AND dinner.  It did, however, make me realize how much I like the new schedule on the fridge.  It makes everything run like a smooth operation.  Tomorrow, we're headed to the grocery store!  Annnnnnd, we're baaaaaack.