Baking Day

Ok so I had big plans - but realized that I really needed to do a bit more cleaning and tidying and a little less mess making.
I had planned to make the following:

Diced Italian Chicken (for my salads at lunch)
Baked Oatmeal
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sweet Potato Choc. Chip muffins
Whole Wheat French Bread Rolls
Pizza Dough

I actually got to do the chicken, oatmeal, and cookies. Those were the "important" ones anyway. Hubby doesn't much care for muffins (at least not the healthy ones I make...) and DD doesn't LOVE them so no biggie.... I have no idea whats going on for dinner this week, DH is working some crazy hours and he doesn't even know what they really are yet. He'll be gone next week from Saturday until Friday so no need to cook anything elaborate for this week or next.
So my recipe for baked oatmeal is quite simple:

3 cups old fashioned oats
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup applesauce(in place of oil/butter)
2 eggs
1 cup milk

mix all ingredients in a small bowl
pour into grease pan (I use a 9x9 square)
bake at 375 for 30 minutes
until lightly browned on top and sides

makes about 4 servings

I usually cut it into squares serve in a shallow bowl and pour a little milk over. Mine gets strawberries and brown sugar and Kaleigh's gets what she chooses...usually raisins or chopped almonds, sometimes nothing. Her i mash a lot more Mine I leave a bit more "chunky" - I wish I had a picture but I was far too hungry for that this morning.....LOL

Here's my chicken (well 1/2 of it - I had already eaten the other half in my salad for lunch.....is there a trend here?)

I just diced up some white meat pieces from a rotisserie chicken I had gotten on markdown at Kroger and sauteed it in a little (free) Kraft light italian salad dressing. Yum!

My chocolate chip cookies were a new recipe I used from the bag of Pamela's Baking & Pancake Mix. I use this for pancakes all the time, but I figured I'd use up some extra chips I had in the pantry (the were the swirled ones) and try the cookie recipe.
One of the best Chocolate Chip cookies I've ever made....it was well worth it!!!

Again recipe made about 2 dozen....obviously they are not all here - lol.

So that was my exciting day of baking - I'd take a picture of the rest of my day but you don't want to see piles of dirty socks and underwear do you?

Stay tuned for a pregnancy update later this week - and hopefully some ultrasound photos!

I'm baaaack

Ok so a tidbit of news.....I'm 23 weeks pregnant (today actually). I fell off the face of the earth as soon as I found out I was expecting because I was barely able to take care of myself and my daughter most days. I lived on the couch and the bed as much as one can with a two year old.

But I'm commited to giving this a go once again.

I'll start off slow and see what works and what doesn't as the weeks go by...I just hope everyone is inspired to stay with me and provide feedback via comments and e-mails!!

Coming up later today...results of my meager baking day.