ITS Christmas Day

Its Christmas day and it is a quarter to five in the morning. I am watching A Christmas Story on TV. It is kinds of a tradition or at least it used to be. I am making Chicken Paprokash for lunch. I will soon check the chicken is thawed enought to cut ut into thin strips. The cutting boards tbat I have are ver small ehich is really irritating to me. I am at the lake of the ozarks in my own condo and couldnot get out and get a descent sized cutting board. My mom and dad really like the dish and I am pleased. It is a vary easy and quick dish to fix. I like it too and it is out of a diabetic cookbook.

I am still on a quest for great tasting diabetic recipes. I only hope that when I buy a few new diabetis cookbooks that I can find more great tasting recipes. I have ot have food that has the propers spices and herbs and a lot of the diabetic and Weight Watchers recipes are bland. It is rather irritating because I have spent a lot of money on those cookbooks and the recipes are either bland or the spices and main ingredients are so epenisive that it is hard for me to afford them on my extremely limit budget of $200.00 a week unless I asve up for them and that is hard to do. because many of the recipes I would like to try call for pork loin or por loin roast or expensive beef render loin and I simply cant afford them. It is now even hard for me to afford chicken.

But I will make an exception when it comes to cicken. I am going to be making my own bread. I can make my own bread two loaves of bread for the price of whaat one loave in the store. I will be tyring a recipe for white bean chicken chili substiting chicken with chicken flavored tvp to see what it is like and if it makes it tastes all right and I will make chicken enchiladas with it to see what is like. I am hoping that it wotks ok, but I will make an exception and buy chicken and see if I cna find some descent chicken recipes.

We will be celebrating our Chirstmas tomorrow. My sisters and most of their kids will be here tomorrow and they will be going home tomorrow night. My son Alan and his girl friend Olivia will be here later on today. Iam looking forward to seeing the family. It will be a nice Christmas day.