it's turning into a ground chicken kind of week

...shopping the specials and eating the specials.

so - extra lean ground chicken was on special last week and i stocked up...over 10lbs worth. i don't have a deep freezer, the packages with their ground contents needed to meet other ingredients.

so far this week i have made:

• my chili, but replaced ground beef with ground chicken
• my pad thai and replaced SHRIMP with ground chicken - this turned out...really well - am still kind of surprised. i did add 2 extra tbsp of fish sauce and i had run out of peanut pieces so smashed up some unsalted cashews instead (delish!)
• my pseudo-shepherds pie

3 for 3 - a good week and a heckuva lot of protein to usher in spring.

irish person of the year - write up

this is the short, abbreviated version of the many things that led to my mom being awarded the irish person of the year (click on the pages below to make them bigger)

and a link to the photos http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=637817&id=766555721&saved#!/album.php?aid=637817&id=766555721&fbid=10150433140185722

mom's letters for irish person of the year

am veering away from the typical use of this space and am using the blog to post some of the letters my mom received as irish person of the year. clicking on the letter individually will make it slightly larger...