Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?

We love the show...watch it when we catch it on...fun to play along...well, my friend's daughter has the game for her ds nintendo hand held...i looked it up, only 20.00...I want to get it for my kids, what a fun educational game!
I played with my friend's daughter for a long time.....

Tennis in the Parks

My kids and I take Tennis lessons at the local parks dept...these pics are from last years lessons....they are so reasonably priced (25 dollars for 8 weeks of lessons!). We had such a blast last year, so we took it again this year and we are going to take the advanced class in Aug also. I have to take updated pics this year, as my kids have grown, both of my sisters and my nieces, and also my mother in law all signed up this year so I want some updated pictures. Tennis is fun, and free (plus gas lol), if you play in parks. We met up with some friends to pay king of the court and we all had a blast...we love playing tennis.


Alex

Brian and one of my nieces and her friend

My Wolfgang Puck Appliances

I haven't posted for awhile, as I have been busy, both in my life and in my groups. I run a few yahoo groups and figured, I would write them up here today to at least get something written in my boring blog that has not had any activity for awhile...

My favorite kitchen tools (next to my hands) are my Wolfgang Puck Pressure Cooker, Rice Cooker and Immersion Blender. Don't get me wrong, I love my professional kitchen aid stand mixer my hubby bought me...but as far as use, Wolfie's stuff gets used the most. Wolfgang, Deb Murray (cook book author and food stylist for Wolfgang Puck and also Suzanne Somers, and Marian Getz, Wolfgang's pastry chef are awesome people and I adore all they do for the group, to help us get the most out of our appliances....

If you want to join my WP Pressure Cooker group, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WP_Pressure_Cooking_Recipes/?yguid=9577836

If you want to join my WP Rice Cooker Group, and this is a large group, go to

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ricecookerrecipes/?yguid=9577836

and I also have a

WP Panini Grill group, its small, just starting out

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Paninigrillrecipes/?yguid=9577836

I run these groups and when Wolfgang, Deb and Marian are on HSN selling, I get extremely busy in group with people talking about it, and newcomers joining us.

Planet Green

Wow, I love the new channel Planet Green....Living with Ed has to be one of my fav shows...I used to watch it on demand when they had some episodes on...now I have my dvr set to record the series....what a fun show!
I loved the recycled glass counter tops they got put in...I am having my kitchen redone, hopefully in this decade lol...seriously....its been torn up a long time....time to get it done....I want those counter tops she got.....

Parakeet, snapping turtle and bald eagle

Sorry, been MIA again.

We had that parakeet in our yard for two weeks. Then for the past week and a half, we have not seen it.

We were outside removing this snapping turtle from the road yesterday and a neighbor from up the street came by and stopped to tell us about the bald eagle that was up the street last week. It stopped traffic. Everyone wanted to get a picture of it.

Shannon

Chicken Burgers from scratch

Wow these were so good, I could eat one now. My friend Kelly does not eat beef or pork and she is here alot with her son... I am always searching for creative things for her, and we love to cook out. We have fish a lot and chicken breasts etc....even veggie burgers, which we really do like....just want variety. I made these the morning of the wine festival and froze them ...and we had them when we got back....

I bought a family pack of Chicken breasts. I chopped them up in the chopper bowl with the immersion blender into a ground chicken. I added....garlic, chopped onion, chopped green peppers (actually red and yellow)....chopped mushrooms, about 2 T avocado oil (olive would do, avocado has high heat point) a bit of celery seed and ground pepper (I add that to everything lol)....I think that is it..again, "me no follow recipe, little this little that" lol....
I mixed it with my best kitchen tool, my hands and then made big meatballs, placing them on wax paper on a baking pan....then, cover with wax paper and put another baking pan on top and smush the meatballs into burgers. Freeze for a few hours (or longer but at least a few hours).
Grill and add cheese if desired and serve on a bun, or for you guys who are Atkins followers, no bun.... (bleu cheese and hot sauce is what we added, once it was cooked, with lettuce and had celery sticks on the side, well, Brian had Barbq sauce on his, he isn't a hot sauce kid)....Yummo!

I used a family pack of chicken breasts (about 10 or so) and made about 16 burgers, so we have more for next time! I am going to grind my own burgers from now on, both beef and chicken, it was soo good and quick and easy to do.

Parakeet 6 days

Tomorrow will be one week its out there. We caught a Red Breasted Grossbeak, a black capped chickadee and a blue jay in the cage, but that little parakeet is not going to be caught! Not much we can do. We tried everything. Its the fastest bird I ever saw since road runner lol.