Pressure Cookers Are Awesome: Roast Chicken and Veggies

Tonight's Dinner adventure features a chicken and a pressure cooker.
These two things are new to me.

First of all I need to say a big THANK YOU to my fantastic parents who gave us THIS pressure cooker for Christmas! You can go to QVC to purchase your own HERE.

Secondly, I need to let you know I've never touched a raw chicken in my life.

I've been nervous about this ALL day! I know it's something people do all the time, but the thought of touching a raw whole Chicken (Or Turkey) just totally groses me out!

I actually used some tongs to "fish" out the giblets from the inside of the chicken. One of the grosest things I've ever done. YUCK!

Nevertheless, I've overcome my fear in the persuit of DINNER!

Here is the result......



Can you say YUMMMMMMMMMM.

Ok, here are my ingredients:

1 whole fryer chicken
1 can chicken broth (I used about 3/4 of the can)
4 large potatoes
1 small bag baby carrots
1 onion (I used about 1/2 the onion)

I modified a recipe that came with the pressure cooker.
Here are my directions (modify as you wish)

1. Season Chicken (salt and pepper) I used McCormick Rotisserie Chicken seasoning! Turned out great.
2. Brown the chicken either on the stove top or in the pressure cooker (mine has a browning function so I used that).
3. Remove chicken from pressure cooker and add chopped onion to liquid (add garlic if you wish) Saute for about 2-3 minutes.
4. Add chicken back to pressure cooker and add largely cut potatoes and carrots around the chicken.
5. Close and cook for 25 minutes on the highest pressure setting (mine is 15 psi).

THE FEEDBACK: 10 out of 10! WAHOOOOO!

KID FEEDBACK: 8 of 10. "Kid-MO" really likes meat. He gobbled up the chicken. He wouldn' touch the potatoes or carrots, but he never eats those so that is not a surprise.

NOTES: I also cooked up some rice and served the chicken and veggies over rice! ForYummy.

UP TOMORROW: I'm going to use the leftover broth and some of the chicken to make chicken noodle soup tomorrow! Come back to see how that adventure goes!

Your Thoughts? :)

Walgreens deal

Thanks to www.savingwithamy.com here is a great Walgreens deal!

Get your $2.25 coupon from last weeks paper.

Electrasol 20 ct $3.49 (Get $1.50 Register Rewards when you buy 1)

$2.25/1 1/2 SS

Final Price= $.26 Moneymaker

Good luck finding this at Walgreens! My location was already out. :(

Free January Printable Subway Art! CUTE

Check out this CUTE and FREE printable!

It's brought to you by Today's Fabulous Finds. Go to their website to print out your favorite color variation. Or, save it to your desktop and send it to your local photo lab (like Costco) and print up a professional version. It would look adorable framed for January.


And, if you are "Mo" like me, you could frame one and bring it to your Sisters for Visiting Teaching with some hot cocoa!

Thanks to Moms By Heart for posting this cute idea! You can go to her blog HERE to see some more fantastic printables!

What do you think?

Hot Coupon Alert: Print these Coupons!

General Mills Cereal.

Albertsons is having a great sale on Cereal this week.

Print out these great coupons for any two General Mills cereals.. Save $1.50 on two!
Go HERE to print!

Ro Tel

Also, if you are going to try your hand at my "Fiesta Chicken" below, you will need 2 cans of Ro Tel! Go HERE to print a coupon for $1 off any 3 cans!

(Remember to hit the back button when you are done to print for a second time)

Babies R Us Sale

Babies R Us has some great coupons online right now.

My favorite is on page one. Received one free Reusable Tote and AN EXTRA 40% off all the clearance clothing you can fit in the bag! TOO COOL!

Click HERE for a link to the coupons!

(Let me know what great deals you find!)

Recipe: Fiesta Chicken *

I have to admit, I do LOVE to cook.
I love to BAKE even more. But, more about that later.

One of my 2011 resolutions is to PLAN better. For me that means planning ahead for meals and making less trips to the Drive-thru.

I'm still in my planning phase but my ultimate goal is to have 1-2 weeks of meals planned ahead with all of the ingredients on hand.

What is at stake? TIME, MONEY, FAMILY & HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

This will take me a while to build my "supply" of meat and ingredients that I have on hand but in the long run the TIME I will save from running to the grocery store will really pay off. I will also save my family a lot of MONEY by cooking at home more during the week. We will also eat a lot more HEALTHIER and enjoy FAMILY time together at the table.

Along the way I'll share my recipes and my family's feedback.

Up this week: Fiesta Chicken

I found the recipe online HERE


(photo by Amy)

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil
8 chicken drumsticks or thighs (8 drumsticks = about 2-1/2 lb) (I used 6)
1 cup long-grain white rice, uncooked
2 cans (10 oz each) Ro*Tel® Original Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies, undrained
1 can (8 oz each) Hunt's® Tomato Sauce
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions, divided
1/2 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

Directions:

1. Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook until golden brown on all sides, turning occasionally. Remove chicken from skillet; keep warm.

2. Add rice to drippings in skillet; stir to coat. Cook over medium heat 3 to 5 minutes or until rice browns a bit, stirring occasionally. Stir in undrained tomatoes, tomato sauce, water and about half of the onions; blend well. Bring to a boil. Top with chicken; cover. Reduce heat to low; simmer 20 minutes or until drumsticks are no longer pink in center and juices run clear (180°F).
3. Sprinkle chicken with cheese and the remaining onions; cover. Cook an additional 5 minutes or until cheese melts, liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.

THE FEEDBACK: Too Spicy! Rating 2 out of 10

NOTES: I think that the Ro-Tel "original" with green chilies was what made this too spicy for us. If we make this again, I will tone down the recipe by using just one can of Rotel Mild mix.

TIPS: When making this meal, I found that my Chicken Drumsticks were bleeding during the browning stage! YUCK! I did a quick GOOGLE search and found that if you soak the chicken drumsticks in Salted Water prior to cooking you can avoid this! WOOHOO

HERE is a link to more ideas to stop the chicken from bleeding via Yahoo Answers.

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Walgreens Purchase 2011

Here is my first visit to Walgreens in 2011....

Walgreens is not one of my traditional weekly stops. I really only go there if there is a great deal going on.

This week I had $2 of Jingle Bucks to use that was going to expire. Also, Biore cleaning products and Diapers were on sale (and I had coupons).


Here is what I purchased:



1 Package Diapers
3 Biore Face Cleaners
1 Christmas Clearance Candy

Total Spent: $21.53
Total Saved: $18.55

I also received $5 in Bonus bucks to use on my next purchase.
I think I'll go back this week and purchase some more diapers while they are on sale! They will nearly be free!

First Target Trip of 2011

Here's my first big Target purchase of 2011!



The key to a good target deal is to use their Target Coupons from the Target Website. You can use one target coupon and one manufacturer coupon on each item.



Target typically puts out a coupon for items that are already on sale! For instance, I purchased Market Pantry Frozen Chicken Breasts on sale for $5.94 and they had a printable coupon to save $2 on the purchase of two packages! Not bad



So, I stocked up on frozen chicken breast this trip!

Here is what I purchased:

(keep in mind that this purchase included THREE Containers of Formula! ) :)

4 Packages Frozen Chicken Breasts

1 Package Frozen breaded chicken

1 Package Jennie O Turkey Burger

2 Packages Oscar Meyer chicken

1 Frozen mixed vegetables

1 Kraft Cheese

2 Lunchables

1 Frozen pizza

1 LARGE Similac Infant Formula

2 Infant Formula

1 24 Pack Scott Toilet paper (not pictured)

2 12 pack Mountain Dew (not pictured)

4 Rolls Christmas Wrapping paper (not pictured- 20 cents each!)

And... my "splurge" for this day...

1 Halo Infant Sleep Sac - on sale for $15

Total Spent $85.57

Total Saved $68.37!

Now... a word about my "splurge". The infant Sleep Sac has been the BEST purchase! My 7 week old baby boy actually slept for FIVE count em, FIVE hours straight the first night we tried this! WOOHOO! I'd pay $15 for a good night's sleep anytime! I recommend it to anyone!

And, if you purchase it at Target this week it is on sale for just $15. HERE is the link.

New Fry's Coupon Policy

"Effective 12/29/10 Frys will be ending our promotions of accepting grocery competitors coupons and all manufacturer coupons equal $1. We will continue to be the home of double coupons. For coupon acceptance guidelines please visit store for details."