Tuesday: Company coming!

Today was a fun school day....C worked ahead so he can have his birthday off! Smart thinking huh? Don't you wish you could do that in the real world?

Science started a new unit about food and nutrition so you KNOW that mom is involved in that one! We had a stack of books all over the table, didn't take a picture of that though, of "supplemental materials" that I just happened to have around! He had to learn the different classifications of food: Protein, lipid, carbohydrate. He then had to make a collage of the different categories with pictures from magazines. That was a fun project!

For reading he read a story called "How the Cat Played Robinson Crusoe". For anyone with kids who like cats, that is a GREAT adventure story that has lots of advanced vocabulary words in it. Well worth reading. It is in "Classics for Young Readers" edition 6 but I am sure it is its own book too. The author is Charles G.D. Roberts.

Then for supper the workers came over, Cheri Fisk and Stephanie Kinney. C wanted to make something different so we did. Thanks to April for the recipe that turned out to be VERY YUMMY! and very pretty too.

It is called Peach Salsa Chicken and preparing it gave a cooking lesson and also a math lesson since the recipe was for 1 4oz serving and we were making 16 oz of chicken!

2 bell peppers (we used yellow and red for color) diced finely












16 ounces of chicken cut into chunks













All the ingredients ready.














The finished product! YUMMY.













Peach Salsa Chicken:

*2 cups of canned peaches (yes, we used our home canned ones!) diced and save the juice off of them.
*16oz boneless skinless chicken breast cut in chunks
*4tsp olive oil
*2 medium bell peppers (any color you choose)
*8T chunky salsa
*4T unsweetened orange juice

In large skillet heat oil and cook chicken till no longer pink
Remove chicken from skillet
Add bell peppers to skillet, reduce heat and saute for 2-3 minutes, stirring, until pepper is tender. Add reserved peach juice, salsa and orange juice to skillet and bring to boil, scraping up browned bits from the bottom of the skillet. Add peaches and stir until hot. Add chicken, stirring to coat with sauce.

We served this with zucchini and summer squash with tomatoes, one of our favorite summer veggie dishes.

Saute onions and garlic together and then add sliced zucchini and summer squash and cook till tender, then toss in tomatoes and warm.
















Dinner was delicious and C did most of the work by himself! I might not be needed anymore!

Tomorrow is C's birthday and he is very excited to have the day off! We had cake and ice cream and sang happy birthday with the workers so that was his "party" at least the most formal one he has.