Last Friday was grocery shopping day. I planned my menu for the next 2 1/2 weeks, double checked the pantry, fueled the boys up on some Wendy’s and we headed to the store. When we got home from the store it was naptime for the boys so I decided to get wild and crazy and cook up 3 of the meals I had purchased, separate and freeze them providing us with 6 frozen dinners! Imagine Spencer’s surprise when he got home from work to a trashed kitchen, 3 different meals cooking and me telling him not to get too excited because frozen pizza was on the menu that night! haha

This first recipe is a frozen favorite of mine. My mother-in-law fixed it for us when I had Joshua and it was so nice to pull it out of the freezer, put it in the oven and not have to cook!

Chicken Caesar Casserole

2 C cooked and cut up chicken

2 C cooked penne pasta

3/4 C creamy caesar dressing

1/2 C chicken broth

1/3 C chopped green onions

1/4 C chopped red pepper

1 1/2 C shredded mozzarella

crushed croutons (if desired)

Mix your cooked chicken and cooked pasta with all ingredients except the croutons and freeze it! If it looks a little dry add extra chicken broth/caesar dressing. If you aren’t freezing it just top with the crushed croutons and bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. If freezing just thaw and then top with croutons and bake.

(I doubled this recipe and froze it in two dishes to make two meals. I also cut up the all the left over red pepper and green onion and measured them out and stuck them in a freezer bag to use in the future!)

This is what it looks like before it’s baked.

In my last post I talked about making a tutu for my niece’s 3rd birthday gift. On the website where I found the tutu tutorial (say that 3 times fast!) I also found some tutorials on adorable little hairbows! I immediately raided my stash of ribbons so I could try some out to send to my sweet niece Caroline!

I followed this tutorial for a loopy bow, but I am going to show you a quick version with pictures I took.

I started with five 8 inch pieces, four 7 inch pieces and four 6 inch pieces. (I had made one more layer but I thought it was going to be too big so I left one layer out.)

Using a lighter, heat seal all your ends. Take all your ribbons and stack them in the order you want and fold in half.

Take a needle and thread and run it through the middle of the folded ribbon.

Then fan our your ribbon in a star shape.

This is the tricky part. Pick up your ribbon and make sure that if you have patterned ribbon that it is facing down. Holding the center take one ribbon at a time and fold it in to create a flower shape.

Once all the ribbons are looped, take your needle and run it through all the ribbons a few times back and forth to make sure it’s secure.

Do this to make as many layers as you want. (Remember, I made four layers, but left out the largest one.)

Then just hot glue your layers together, add a decorative button and hair clip to the back and you have a cute loopy bow!

I am still on the hunt for a little buckeye button to finish the red and white bow so Caroline can sport it with her Ohio State gear this fall. Stay tuned for more recipes and the instructions for the korker bow in the above picture!

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