Odds and Ends...

This was from a few days ago (might have even been last week, I'm a little hazy on the details) but we had decided to make chicken parmigiana for dinner and I made a mistake. I'll bet you can't tell. Actually, it took me about 15 minutes to realize it. I'll give you a hint. That's not cheese on top of that piece of chicken. Yep. We had bought a Costco box of shredded hash browns but one of the (3) bags inside ripped too far and I had to put the hash browns in a gallon zip lock instead. That was a week or two before we made this dinner so I saw this shredded white stuff in the freezer and assumed that I had some shredded mozz sitting around ready to put on top of our chicken. I only caught on when it didn't melt after an extraordinarily long time in the oven and then being put under the broiler. Maybe I should mark the bag so I don't do that again...I'm pretty sure this was last week sometime, but we had made our roast beef hash for breakfast and Madison wasn't real keen on eating it. I had baked a small batch of cookies (keeping dough in the fridge all ready is so convenient) so that Steve and Kellen could have them in their lunches. I left them sitting on the stove top and they had cooled sufficiently that Madison felt they would be the perfect accompaniment to her breakfast :)
We have now taken to locking the fridge with a bungee cord because Madison has a habit of getting in there to take bites out of a few apples and then leave them around the house for me. Before we did that, though, I had opened the fridge one day to find a bottle in there. Neither of our kids require bottles anymore, and this one isn't even real! Madison had decided that her baby doll's bottle needed to be chilled, I guess.