Oh Nuts

For several years now during the season of Lent my family and I have done a specific meal on the same night of the week. On Thursdays this year the meal someone makes each week for dinner is called Melt In Your Mouth Chicken Breast* and it is delicious. We have baked potatoes and veggies with it as well. Because we enjoy this meal so much and since it is so easy to make I thought I would share it here. Photo by  Jonathan Melendez Melt In Your Mouth Chicken Breast Ingredients: 4 boneless chicken breasts, halves 1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated (we use pre-grated) 1 1/2 tsp seasoning salt 1/2 tsp black pepper, ground 1 tsp garlic powder Directions: Mix mayonnaise, cheese, and seasonings. Spread mixture over chicken breast and place in baking dish Bake at 375°F for 45 minutes. If you don't like mayonnaise a simple trade-off is simply sprinkling salt, pepper, Italian seasoning and garlic powder over...

--- 1 --- Last week on Saturday four out of six siblings had rehearsal all day for their upcoming Christmas play "The Conversion of Scrooge,"and Aaliyah was helping out at a food pantry in the morning. So it was just me, my mom and Amanda at home, so we decided to stop over at Hobby Lobby to do some shopping. --- 2 --- Even though I usually don't like to start my Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving I found some crafts to add to presents. For the three kids that I nanny I got them each an ornament that you could color, though I already did that. For the oldest girl that I nanny as part of her Christmas present from me I got a canvas bag and decorated it. But now that Thanksgiving is over I can start looking for the rest of the presents that I need. --- 3 --- At the end of August we started doing a clean eating plan thing and one of the smoothie recipes that you get with it is a peanut butter smoothie and I really like it so I decided to share it here ...