9/2/11

Well, didn't succeed at getting a real dinner on the table yesterday, oh well, it happens. Everything I kind of looked at real quick to defrost and make, we were missing some of the ingredients for, and I wasn't wanting to go shopping. So it was a free-for-all night. I did make the hubby some beef potpies (homemade from months prior, but i vacuum sealed them and froze them) for when he got off work.
Tonight though, we had a real dinner!! And it was good! First time, new recipe.
I doctored up a recipe I got on the back of a Reynolds Wrap Bags box.
I uses the plastic Reynolds cooking bags, (place it in a large baking dish) and a 2-3 lb bottom round roast. Put that in the bag, along with 1.5 lbs of those tiny re potatoes, a 1 lb bag of peeled baby carrots, and slices one large onion, separated the slices and sprinkled them around the bag. Pour in 1 cup water. Then sprinkle over the roast and veggies in the bag, 2 envelopes of onion soup mix, and then sprinkle over it all 1/4 cup of flour. Add about a 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon of pepper over the top as well.
Bake in 350 degree oven for 2 hrs.
It came out delicious!!
The veggies were tender but not mushy, and coated in the flour/onion soup mixture and almost had a caramelized flavor/texture to them! The meat was a little over done, the original recipe called to cook for 2.5 hrs, And I cooked mine about 2.25 hrs. So that's why i suggest only cooking it for 2 hrs. I served it with some Knorr sides beef noodles on the side, and peas to round out a full large meal. Not too shabby.
Took Logan and hubby for haircuts today. Logan's only had about maybe 5-6 haircuts in his life so far. He was okay at like his first 2 or so. Then the last few times we took him, he really threw a fit, cried and everything. I was so proud of him today though. He did awesome. No tears. They put the apron thing around him, and he started whining a little bit. And I remembered on the tv show Max and Ruby, try put a cape on Max, and were calling him super bunny. And that day I loosely tied a blanket around him, and called him super bunny too. And he loved it, thought it was hysterical. So as soon as the stylist was getting him ready, I started talking about Max and Ruby, and talking about super bunny. He seemed to get distracted enough, stopped getting upset. From there on out he was so well behaved! She used both the clippers and scissors and he was fairly good the whole time. Such a relief. And he looks so handsome and grown up with his hair freshly cut.