Quick and easy fried chicken with mushroom brown gravy

Yesterday I was so busy with gathering up materials for the Cub Scout meeting and planning for the Cisco Kids 7th birthday party in about three weeks. After a long day working on those two things I still had to cook dinner. I wanted to make something easy, quick and good. I thought fried Chicken breast with mushroom brown gravy. I have never made this before and when the Chief says.... This is a keeper, I know he really likes it.  So I thought I would share this simple recipe with you. 

Two chicken breast
1 cup of seasoned bread crumbs
1 egg scrambled
2 cups of chicken broth
1 tablespoon of butter
2 cups of sliced mushrooms
1 cup of frozen peas
1 tablespoons of corn starch in 1/4 cup of water
1/8 cup choped fresh parsley
2 cloves chopped fresh garlic
salt and pepper to taste.

I took a Chicken Breast and dipped it into a scrambled egg then covered it with seasoned bread crumbs. I then gently pan fried it in about 1/8 cup of olive oil. Once the chicken was cooked I removed it from the pan and added one tablespoon of butter. I added two cups of sliced mushrooms, garlic and parsle to the butter and sautéed them. Once the mushrooms were cooked I added one cup of frozen peas and two cups of chicken broth. Simmer until the peas are heated through. Combine one tablespoons of cornstarch with 1/4 cup of water and pour into simmering broth while constantly stirring. Salt and pepper to taste. I put the chicken breast on a plate and poured the mushroom brown gravy over the top. Add parmesan cheese and serve.
Serves 2.

The Pinewood Derby car race is on or maybee not!!!!

We are very excited about January 23rd. This is the day we enter our car into the Pinewood Derby for the first time. We got our kit last night and it is not what I thought it would be. We literally got a block of wood with four wheels and four nails. the guys will have to literally carve the car out of this block of wood. This should be interesting!!!!!!!

These are some examples of what was carved out of that block of wood.  The chief is a modeler.  I think he can pull this off.  The Cisco Kid has not chosen what he wants his car to look like yet.  If I would guess I would say it will be a fire truck or a police car.  We will see.....I will post the progress of our Pinewood Derby car creation.

Working on renovating a room

I will be making up dated posst about my transformation of my guest bedroom to scrapbooking/craft/guest room.  Over the weekend we have made real progress towards completing the room.  We completed the installation of the wood floors. We also got a couple of book cases from target and they are so cute. Target calls them shabby bookcases. We also made a small work area for The Cisco kid. I needed a table that would fold down to save on space. His collapsible table came out really great.

The shelf brackets fold in so the table can be lowered. 

Shabby book shelves from Target.

I hope to be in the room by this up coming weekend so I could start catching up on my Scrapbooks.

Getting closer to getting the Tiger Cub badge.

The boys have made some real progress with all their achievements to receive their Tiger Cub badge. They have completed Making My family Special, Where I Live and Keeping Myself Healthy and safe Achievement requirements.
Right before the holidays we completed, Keeping Myself Healthy and safe. For the safety category I had them plain a fire drill and practice it at home. For the healthy category I made a gigantic nutrition pyramid so the boys would get a real sense of the nutritional value of each category. I brought in a bag of plastic fruits, vegetables, breads and plastic Mc Donald’s food. They picked something out of the bag and placed it in the category they thought it belonged. Oddly enough they all picked the junk food and they really knew that it went right on top with the oils. We discussed how those things were not healthy and we started throwing them off the pyramid and vowed to eat less of the junk foods and more healthy foods.

Last evening we played bingo and I thought it would be a great confidence builder to let the boys conduct the game. They did such a great job taking charge and taking turns at the wheel.  They were all winners and received a toy.

Their homework is to discuss with a parent about what to do if they should become lost or separated from their family in a strange place. All we have left is How I Tell It and Let’s Go Outdoors.