The Ultimate Manly Breakfast Burrito!

This is the finished product:

Now, I will guide you through the delightful process of creating it!

Ingredients necessary for the Ultimate Burrito:

Green chili powder of your choice, or be lazy and buy Mark Schlereth's Stinkin' Good Green Chile.

Large yellow Onion

Sausage

Green Peppers

cream cheese

Velveeta

Instant rice

Frozen Peas

Eggs

Mushrooms

Large Tortillas (Softer the better)

First step: Combine your rice, 1/4 cup chopped onion, frozen peas, and a dash of chicken bullion with 1/2 cup of water.

The rice mixture is in the back, round pan. Make it by throwing together your instant rice, the peas and onions..you can "improv" on what you want in it. My friend adds black beans too. I add corn.
While it is simmering, saute your sausage, onion and green pepper with mushrooms on flat pan (the one shown in the front.) Let cook for about 6 minutes on low.

Next, Make the sauce for the top:

I use a very good green chili powder (or Mark's if I want it easy!) and combine the water, 1 Table. of flour, cream cheese and Velveeta slice on low as they mix together!

Using a whisk is helpful on this step. When it melts together, it'll be like this:

Creamy and delicious with a tad of a "bite." I added some of the cooked sausage to it. (It really is EASIER to use Stink's Stinkin' Good Green Chile!)

Now, Add the eggs to your sausage, onions and green pepper/mushroom pan:

Notice how the back pan has the tortillas sitting on top of the hot rice, steaming!

Now assemble by placing mixtures inside of warm tortilla and ladle the creamy cheese sauce on top!
 Here ya go!

You can always let your friends clean up for ya!
Hahahaha!

Max and Sadie!

Momma Mia's Spinach/Chicken Lasagna!

 Momma Mia’s Chicken/Spinach Lasagna

Purchase:

No-boil lasagna noodles

Sauce

Chicken strips (a package)

Onion

Garlic

Spinach (frozen) (two boxes)

Ricotta (large)

Eggs

Parsley

Mozzarella Cheese

Olive oil

Parmesan cheese

Steps:

1) Make ricotta sauce:                       

Mix together two eggs

One large container of ricotta

Parsley

Salt and Pepper

Parmesan cheese                                                 

2) Slice mozzarella in thin strips or shred

3) sauté chicken in onion and garlic with

       Tbls. of olive oil

4) Have sauce ready with spoon to ladle over

5) Boil spinach in water/drain well

Pre-heat oven to 350 now.

Assembly:

From the bottom up:

¼ cup of olive oil in bottom

place one layer of hard noodles on top

slather ricotta mixture (spooning it over thinly)

add chicken with spinach, onion and garlic on top

finish with sauce, then shredded or thinly sliced mozzarella

Repeat this step until you reach a half inch to the top of your long pan. 

Cover with foil, bake for 40 minutes tops.   

Finished product!                   

Sun Bird Logo

So, A friend asked me to design a logo and I must say, I had a lot of fun doing it.


Here is what I was given to work with. She is Lutheran Pastor and wanted to have something more stylized made from this picture:

The drape symbolizes a dove with it's head turned down....use your imagination now!

I knew I wanted to incorporate the bird into the logo. After studying it for three days. I thought of the logo name, "SunBird."

So, after a few sketches and many hours of deliberation, I came up with this:

 I like it because it's stylized and the sun's rays depict the logo name with bird. It can be used as a gray-tone, or black and white, without any color as well.

Making a FOOL out of Myself-Professionally!

My Latest Singing Telegram!

Yes, I'm a children's entertainer, but I also do singing teles for numerous local events. Check this one out and leave any message you'd like, nothing bothers me. LOL!

Oh MY! Facebook, blogs and twitter too?

I have SO much on my notes from FaceBook. I can't even fathom re-writing them all to a blog now.
Some of my better recipes, I'll go ahead and transfer over.
Name on facebook: Karen Mary Castranova!

Consequences!

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important it really is to you and to your company. This way of evaluating the significance of a task is how you determine what your next frog really is.
Okay, let's pose this question to Cutler. Your knee hurts, but it's a championship game....do you take yourself out or stay in?
Oh, and what do we suppose the consequences will be if we wussy out?
"Scent of a woman..quote..."The consequences will be dire and by dire I mean...." Cutler didn't want to "wussy out." He wanted to be there. He was hurt, broken, and disappointed. Not at all a quitter.
How do I know this?
I was married to a professional athlete for close to 20 years. I watched him get back in the game with a split knees-cap. When the leg swelled to enormous proportion, he was taken out by his coach. Culter knew he couldn't play anymore. For Christ's sake.....a 2nd degree MCL is close to being torn. I bet no one reading this can know what that must feel like. (Unless you've been a professional athlete and unless you've been hurt in that way.) Walk a mile in someone elses moccasins. Then go whine to the world, fans.

Guilt

Guilt is a self-imposed, negative emotion that is coupled with regret. To be completely guilt-free, one must not regret anything from his/her past. Is this too difficult to do for most?