First I need to share a picture of Liam. I got him up from his nap and he had gone to sleep with his Redskins jersey on under a thermal gray shirt. Well, he's been obsessed with this "football shirt" so during his nap, he wriggled that thermal shirt off as well as he could. He didn't get it all the way off- he took the bottom of the front of his shirt and got it over his head.
Today was a late class day for Zachary so we had dinner on our own. I try to pick easy dinners for Tuesday nights for this reason and I had recently watched a Pioneer Woman episode with a recipe on hamburger soup. We had leftover taco meat from the midshipmen dinner so I just had to pick up some beef broth and veggies and made this delicious recipe.
I heated some up for Zachary when he got home and he was a fan!
Most of the time I feel like we eat a nice variety of meals. This may be compared when we ate the same 5 things every single week. However- it seems like every time I sort through my recipe cards, I don't get excited by five to six already existing options so we have started trying a new recipe most weeks. I came across a recipe for orange chicken which is our favorite from Panda Inn. At the commissary they have a tiny food court made of Panda Inn and Subway so sometimes when we don't have a lot of groceries (hence the need to go to the grocery store) and I'm too hungry to wait until we get home, we stop at Panda Inn- this probably happens once a month. We were excited to try the recipe and see how close it was to the food we get in the food court. And it was pretty darn close! We served it with fried rice that Zachary learned to make that we usually pair with our crockpot honey sesame chicken.
We also got Christmas presents from Aunt Pat today and Liam had a blast taking the paper out of the box and dragging it all over the house. Here's a blurry picture:
