Cook with Cambell's

So I have been sucking at this lately. Two jobs, school, a wedding, fiance and new puppy don't leave a whole lot of time for blogging. Thank goodness for reading week!!!

I feel like I need to do a thoughts on Tuesday post because I have so much randomly floating through my head and I probably won't remember half of it by the time Thursday roles around!

I'm sure most of you have seen the new Cambell's campaign, advertising the cook with cambell's website. C and I have been diligently trying to eat at home because a) we don't have the money to eat out every night and b) this wedding is approaching quickly and I would really like to still fit into that dress I just bought in 15 months time. This means that I need to pull my weight in the cooking department as a lot of the time I'm home first and can have dinner finished by the time C walks in the door.

Enter cook with Cambell's. I've said this on here before and I'm sure I will say it again. I. don't. cook. C, on the other hand, is amazing in the kitchen. The boy can seriously look at a recipe, look at what we happen to have in the pantry at the time and wing it, and it always turns out perfectly. When I cook, it isn't like that. I need guidelines and directions, so naturally, any recipe that promises both quick and easy has my undivided attention.

So far, I have successfully made two recipe's from this site, both of which C and I loved, and both of which honestly didn't require a whole lot of effort on my part. LOVE.

I'm going to share my favourite of the two recipe's so far, and I will continue to share the ones that I especially like in the future.

2 Step Tomato Chicken Mozzarella

Ingredients

• • 1 tbsp (15 mL) vegetable oil
• • 4 (about 1 lb/500 g) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• • 1 can CAMPBELL'S^® Condensed Tomato Soup
• • 1 tsp (5 mL) dried oregano leaves, crushed
• • 1/2 cup (125 mL) shredded Mozzarella cheese

Directions

• 1. Brown chicken well in heated oil at medium-high heat in large skillet.
• 2. Add 1 can Campbell's^® Condensed Tomato Soup mixed with dried oregano leaves, crushed. Simmer, covered, until chicken is cooked through. Sprinkle with Mozzarella cheese.

I didn't take any pictures, but trust me it was SO simple and very easy.

If your like me and you really don't have the time or patience for the whole cooking thing I recommend checking Campbell's website out!

Wifely Duties

It has been forever since I last blogged! I apologize, school is starting to catch up with me, bring on Christmas Break!

I have so many blogs running through my head right now, so I think I'm going to break them up, hopefully blog a little bit more!

I'm going to start with New Moon. I have seen it, but I'm not going to write an entire blog about it. From what I have seen recently, everyone has blogged about it, so you, like me, have already gotten major plot points, problems, excitement or any other major emotion that those that saw it have felt, I don't think you all need to read anymore. So I leave you with my opinion that the movie was amazing, so much better than the first one and definitely worth seeing.

Moving on.....The topic of this blog has been running through my head for about a week now, waiting for me to find the time to actually write it.

With my upcoming wedding getting closer (less than 1000 days now!) I have been thinking a lot about wifely tasks, specifically those I cannot do.

I can't cook. I'm not even going to try to skirt around the topic, I literally cannot cook. Dinner to me is typically KD, maybe I'll get ambitious and make myself eggs or grilled cheese. C is the cook, typically picking me up from school, take me back to his place and come up with something for us to eat. This is backwards, I SHOULD be able to cook.

Last week, C picked me up from school, and I figured the night would be as usual with him making dinner. It started this way, he got out all the stuff and turned on the over, I sat in my chair with my book and waited to be spoiled with whatever yummy thing he was making. AND THEN......he finds that something has gone bad in the fridge and immediately turns into OCD "C" determined to fully clean out the fridge and find the problem. He is cleaning and cleaning, and there I am, sitting nervously on my chair, looking at the evil oven which is slowly burning my dinner.

This is where I developed a small accomplishment, and actually took over! Now as a side note: I'm not implying here that I managed to created a gourmet, five star meal. I mean lets be honest, on this particular night we were eating sausage rolls, mozzarella sticks and rice (microwaveable) but that is not the point. The POINT is that I actually managed to take over dinner, finish it, and manage to serve food that was eatable, while not burning the apartment down. Point for me! Granted, I did SLIGHTLY burn the sausage rolls on one side, but I flipped them all over, only showing the pretty golden brown, perfectly cooked side, and hoped he wouldn't notice.

Anyways, the point of this blog is that I really think this is a problem. C is joining the RCMP, and I'm figuring he is not going to always be home to cook for me and I cannot raise our children on KD and the occasional grilled cheese, that's just not healthy. Sp here is my blogger promise, I am going to learn to cook!

And I'm asking for your help. Do you cook? Any recipe's (go easy people please, I'm a work in progress) that you'd like to share?