Joomla! site syndication http://www.adamandnicole.com 2010-09-08T21:17:33+01:00 http://www.adamandnicole.com http://www.adamandnicole.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2010-03-10T16:12:58+01:00 http://www.adamandnicole.com http://www.adamandnicole.com/content/view/75/28/ This seems to be the most popular recpie that Nicole makes... so for the non-facebook friends: Chicken and Quinoa (gluten free) (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=181177570177 1 index=2) Share (http://www.facebook.com/ajax/share_dialog.php?s=4 appid=2347471856 p[]=1216600424 p[]=181177570177) Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 8:56pm 2-3 medium chicken breasts, cut up small 1 cup dry quinoa or couscous 1 can chicken stock, separated into 1/4 cup and the rest 2 tsp balsamic vinegar or soy sauce, added to the 1/4 cup chicken stock water added to the remaining chicken stock to make 2 cups 1 medium onion, diced 2-3 garlic cloves, minced 1 can diced tomatoes (or about 1 1/2 fresh diced with juice) In medium saucepan, bring stock and water to boil, add quinoa, cover, reduce heat to low. (if using couscous, remove from heat and cover, set aside) In large skillet, brown chicken and garlic in olive oil. Don 't worry if chicken sticks, but make sure it gets browned not just cooked through. Remove chicken from pan and set aside (DON'T TURN OFF THE HEAT!!!) Immediately add stock/vinegar to pan and deglaze, unsticking anything that my be left from the chicken. Add onions and saute about 2 minutes. Add tomatoes and simmer about 5 minutes. Add chicken back in and mix to combine. Quinoa should simmer about 20 minutes, which is about the time it will take to cook the remaining stuff. if it takes longer than 20 minutes, just turn off the heat under the quinoa and let it sit until the chicken mixture is ready. If you're using couscous, it can sit until your ready. Once the chicken mixture is all done, combine with the quinoa/couscous and serve! This serves 4-6 people. If you wish to increase it, always use 2x as much liquid as quinoa for cooking. Most packages say 1 1/2 times, but I've found 2 is much better, less burning and softer grains. text/html 2009-03-27T15:45:54+01:00 http://www.adamandnicole.com http://www.adamandnicole.com/content/view/74/27/ Recently we got a new foster Ace, a 6 month old puppy with heart problems. Ace went to Purdue this week for surgery to repair the defects in his heart, and sadly he did not make it thru the surgery. When they opened up the valve that was blocked, his heart went into severe arrhythmias that they could not stop. Ace was a very sweet, special little boy who was far to young to have such a major issue, and we will miss him very much. We'll see you at the bridge buddy. text/html 2009-03-09T08:38:37+01:00 http://www.adamandnicole.com http://www.adamandnicole.com/content/view/73/28/ MB4Jd-CGhvo Adam is in St. Louis taking care of his mom, but he uploaded this before he left so I thought I'd post it. Here's hoping I did it right. It seems really slow to load, I'm sorry. I'll have hime fix whatever I did wrong when he gets back.After the first :30 you may want to skip ahead to 1:40 and then to 2:25. Thanks to camera person Damion for making the second half so much better. text/html 2008-08-29T10:15:39+01:00 http://www.adamandnicole.com http://www.adamandnicole.com/content/view/72/27/ Back in August, Adam posted this letter to Rod Blagovich from the people of Illinois. I offer it again with my edits. Official Letter of Reprimand to Rod BlagojevichRe: Failure to Perform Duties set forth by your employer - The People of the State of Illinois Dear Rod,This is to inform you that your actions as Governor of the State of Illinois are unacceptable. The duties expected of your position have not been fulfilled. We, the people of the State of Illinois and your Employer, wish to notify you that your Resignation needs to be filed within the next 30 days.List of Greivances:You have squandered your budget and spend money not authorized to you You have enabled criminals to continue their actions, therefor not protecting the citizensYou have refused to live in your appointed housingYou have billed us for unauthorized travel expensesYou refuse to work in the office appointed to you. We have not authorized Telecommuting.You have threatened to block access to public lands. We, the people of Illinois, own these lands, not you. You have blatantly lied on your statement of applications. Promises made have not been fulfilled. As is standard with applications for employment, falsifying statements can result in termination. When hired, you were expected to work well with others hired by us. You have failed to do so, up to and including open fighting with your co-workers.You have eliminated or reduced vital services that we wish to provide.You have billed us for unauthorized personal grooming expenses.You have been implicated in connections with Known Convicted Criminals. Your employer (us) can not risk an employee tarnishing the public opinion of the general population.Again, I restate, the People of the State of Illinois and your Employer, hereby notify you that your job performance is unacceptable. We expect your resignation letter shortly. We want to end this employment relationship as amiably as possible. No hard feelings, and we hope you find employment elsewhere and in a position that fits your skills and desires.Sincerly,Your Employer, The People of the State of Illinois Edit: December 12, 2008You have not only continued the actions listed in the grievances above, you have brought the utmost emparassment to the State of Illinois. You may have done irrepreprable damage to the office of the Governer of Illinois. We cannot stress the importance of your resignation at this time. We anticipate the reciept of your letter of resignation within the next week. This is our last offer to end this relationship amiably. If you refuse our offer this time, we reserve the right to proceed with impeachment and incompetency hearings. We will no longer be represented by a man of your calibar. text/html 2008-12-05T09:41:35+01:00 http://www.adamandnicole.com http://www.adamandnicole.com/content/view/70/27/ Yesterday, Adam came home from hunting in the morning and found that Cleo had puked in several places in the house. He let her out, and she couldn't pee. We took her to the vet and it turned out she has Bladder stones, one of which was blocking the urethra. She needed surgery to remove them, they were too big to pass!Cleo had her surgery this morning and came through it very well. We will be going to see her later this morning, but the vet says that everything looks great. They removed 12 stones from her bladder, the largest one about the size of a dime.Thank you to all our friends who have offered emotional support over the last 2 days. Those who know us know that Cleo is our baby.