Cranberry Goodness

So I was all geared up to sit down here and write about my weekend activities and the phone rings.

Me: Hello
Dave: The washer repair man is on his way.
Me: PRAISE GOD! ( because I have a laundry running out my ears!)

Yay I'm getting my washer fixed I'm bouncing around because now I can wash all those dirty clothes (yes I do get excited about the little things) The man walks in and says. "It's dead... " I'm standing there looking at him like... Noooo.. (because it is brand new it can't be dead!)but it must of been more like. "I want to kill you" because he asked me nicely not to murder him. My brand new washer is dead. I love this machine. It beeps at me when it is almost done, just a small 'Hello Leeann I am almost done with your family's washing, and is sooo silent as it does it's work. I've had it a month and It's been wonderful until it just stopped spinning and washing... the man says it's brain is fried. A week.. I gotta wait a week before it will be fixed. (Parts delivered... then he is only in our area one day a week... because I love in East Bumble). So now my mood is sour, because I gotta go to the laundromat to do my washing... UGH! I don't wanna!

I said a little prayer and now I'm gonna claim that God has adjusted my attitude and I can write here about my great weekend. A weekend that I wound up cooking away. So sit back, adjust your seatbelts and here we go.

First I just gotta show you these beauties that my Mamaw Massengale let me clip and bring home! Look at those colors, BRILLANT!

So now on with the Blog! Let's start with Saturday, which I think has become my cooking day I don't know why... don't ask. I cook every other day of the week as well but it seems on Saturday I just get this bug to do something awesome and new and grand and this weekend it was Cranberries!

First: Cranberry Chicken you can find the recipe here.

Here is the little goodies that will make this very simple very scumtiliumpious meal.


Blend them all in a bowl it should look like this.


Next Pour it all over the chicken you have chosen something like

Slide into the oven.. Cook time could varies mostly because chicken well you know thickness and bone or no bone. I let mine cook about 1.5 hours because those breast were thick. In then end, you get this..


Doesn't that just make you want to eat it up? My family loved it. Savanah's BFF hoovered it down.. I swear that was the quietest she has ever been out our table..EVER.

On the side we had Spinach Citrus Salad. You can find the recipe here. I made my own Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing and you can find that recipe here.

I hope your family enjoys it as much as mine and Cori did!

That was round one of cooking on Saturday. Round two came as I dove into making all the yummy dishes I had promised my sister I would bring for my mothers Birthday Dinner. Yes, it was a beautiful Sunday with family in Tennessee, as well a really awesome day in church for Teagan's dedication.
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I could not resist. Isn't he so adorable in Savannah & Patton's arms! He can't help that his mother and father make him wear such an ugly bib!

Pistachio Marshmallow Delight recipe here. Now this dish always screams Mamaw's to me, mostly because I can remember (once again) standing at the counter in her kitchen this time it was the night before Thanksgiving and the two of us blending this really easy really yumtastic sweet up. It was all gone, yesterday, so that tells me it really still is a truly awesome hand-me-down from my Mamaw.
Ready..set.go. The ingredients super easy right? You seriously just blend them all in the bowl in order of the details of the recipe. Then you put it into your dish, spread over the cool whip and slap cherry on top!!


(Except I had to slap eight on top because I wasn't about to have one of those babies saying.. "I didn't get a cherry Aunt Lee!")

Next a salad that was my Aunt Katie's. If we had family dinners I was always running to the table and looking for this dish. It's simple.. and easy but yum is it good. I even hate peas and look at this! It is full of them. I have to say, I wish I would have gotten the exact ingredients from her before she passed away, but I did not. I do though think I made it pretty close and I even added my own spin on it with the spinach which my mother said was 'great'. You can find the recipe here. I won't bore you with the detail pictures because really it is the same.. you add it in order of the recipe and Tada! Seven Layer Salad!

I also made Green Bean Casserole with a twist... no french friend onions, this had stove top instead... it was great....and I'll tell you how great it was... they dug into it eating it before I could get a picture..but still the goodness is here. ENJOY, because this is me saying time to get creative with Pumpkin!