I have finally gotten my classroom to a point where I feel like I can leave within an hour of school getting out (we are done-done around 4:45, so I usually end up being there until 7-ish). Today I left at 6 (it felt weird to see light outside). I decided that getting out early meant I could make an awesome dinner.
I get really annoyed with people who constantly Pin things on Pinterest, but just pin them to look at them and have something on their pin boards. So anytime I don't know what to cook for dinner, I pick something off my pinboards. If it's a Pin Win, I comment on it to say that it worked out. If it's fail (like the 2 cupcake recipe), then I delete the pin.
Tonight I made Chicken and Artichokes in a White Wine Sauce (note this also includes mushrooms). I was a little paranoid about making it because you have to coat the chicken in flour and then fry it on the stove, but the directions here were really easy to follow, and I did not burn the chicken or have raw chicken when I was done cooking. Everything was really great-I could have done without the artichokes, but Matt said he liked them.
Here is a link for the recipe: http://annies-eats.net/2010/08/02/chicken-and-artichokes-in-a-white-wine-sauce/
And on a side note-do not go to the grocery store after getting out of teaching small children all day on top of being hungry. I bought a ten-pack of Kit-Kats, chocolate chip cookie dough, Halloween cupcakes, a box of Nutter Butters, and the cinnabar bun things from the fridge section. Oops.
Funny things from my classroom:
My kids keep taking my markers and eating them or drawing on things. Today I fixed this by putting velcro on all the markers. Then I put them high out of reach. Take that kids!
Left my lunch unguarded to open a milk for a kid. I came back, a little girl had not only eaten my Lean Cuisine meal (I'd had like 3 bites) but she had also drained my bottle of water. Flash forward 2 hours: There is a bag of goldfish for snacks behind my desk (as in, a snack for me). Same little girl goes back there, gets my bag, and has 2 handfuls of my Goldfish in her mouth before I can stop her. I wasn't mad, all I could do was laugh!
