February Monthly Cooking Weekend

Monthly Cooking Weekend got off to a great start!  Friday night Peyton and I put in a chicken, made a batch of oatmeal, granola bars, a pot of rice and a batch of chicken chili. 

Saturday morning my stomach was growling before I even got out of bed because the house smelled so good!

Peyton went to Aunt Joann's house to play for several hours on Saturday and I had planned to knock out the whole list of foods for February.  I wanted to stop by Goodwill for a couple of old sweaters I could use for making leg warmers.  While I had a childless morning.  Then I was supposed to go home and finish cooking.

I got a little carried away. 

I DID find some great sweaters that will make great leg warmers.  But I also found a pair of jeans that retail for around $200, a jacket, a skirt, several shirts, shoes and a ring and bracelet. 

I also found a few shirts for Peyton.

And I got so excited about all of my sweater projects that I started cutting parts off of the shirts to see what they would look like.  See my first bracelet?  Used to be a collar. 

At some point, I stopped playing dress up and got back to cooking.  And by some point, I mean much later that night.

I think the only other thing I accomplished that night was a pot of chicken broth. 

Sunday I continued to cook and when we decided to have a few people over to watch the Super Bowl (last minute, as always) I made salsa, spinach artichoke dip and queso. 

None of those things were on the list...  :(  But they were pretty good!!  I could pretty much eat an entire batch of salsa and spinach artichoke dip by myself. 

I'm not sure when I made it, but I made a batch of dishwasher detergent also.  I've used it several times (you have to wash dishes A LOT during monthly cooking weekend) and so far I like it.  It made A TON- I'll see how long it lasts.

I'll pick up on the cooking next weekend.  The month may be over by the time I finish the list!