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Easy Chicken Parmesan
Jan 31st
With both of us working so many hours, we often don’t have a lot of time to spend on big fancy meals – especially since it’s just the two of us eating them anyway. So we’ve come up with lots of shortcuts for simply, easy meals that look and taste a lot fancier than the preparation would suggest.
Here’s one of our favorites that literally only takes about 5 minutes to prepare: Easy Chicken Parmesan
What you’ll need
- Frozen Chicken Patties/Chicken Breasts (we like Tyson, but any brand will do)
- 1 jar of prepared pasta/spaghetti sauce (e.g., Prego, Ragu, whatever you like. If you have left over sauce of your own, use that instead!)
- Parmesan cheese, shredded or grated
- Mozzarella Cheese, sliced 1/8″ – 1/4″ (we like fresh, whole milk mozzarella ourselves, but you can use any kind you want. Buffalo, skim-milk, low moisture, prepared slices, whatever works for you)
- Optional: Pasta for side dish (Spaghetti, Fettuccine, Angel Hair – try the fresh pasta’s in the cooler section of the grocery store. They cook super fast and taste amazing!)
- Optional: Olive oil (or regular vegetable oil if you don’t have olive oil) for the pasta
Before you are ready to start:
First, if you are making pasta to serve with More >
Catching Up
Jan 31st
Wow. So much has been going on in my life, I just realized that this blog – which I had such high hopes for – has pretty much been abandoned. Ahh, the best laid plans!
So, before I move on to more current matters, here is a quick catch-up on what has been happening since my last post.
Southland
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or totally ignore television altogether, then you should already know that TNT saved Southland and it began airing on January 12th with the original episodes from NBC. They will start airing the unseen episodes on March 2nd.
This has, in fact, been a large part of what has taken my time over the last couple of months. Since the announcement that TNT saved the show I created a new Fan website at SouthlandTvFans.com and it has taken off like a rocket! We just recently passed 5,000 visits and over 10,000 page views for the site in just over 2 months. I was also able to (surprise!) wrangle an interview with one of the biggest stars of the show, Michael Cudlitz, who plays gay cop John Cooper.
On a personal level, the site has led to Chris and I meeting several More >
Southland Canceled?
Oct 12th
OK, NBC Universal is officially brain dead and off it’s rocker. Yeah, that’s redundant, I know.
Just two weeks before the show Southland was due to return for its second season, the executives at NBC Primetime Scheduling have – in their infinite wisdom – decided that the show is “too expensive” and canceled it. Of course, Warner Brothers has already shot 6 new episodes, they are 4th in ratings (of 5 broadcast networks) and they are so far gone that GE is trying to sell them off.
If you haven’t seen it, Southland was a cop show that takes place in Los Angeles with the LAPD, but unlike any cop show you’ve seen before. This show was REAL! The characters, the stories, the emotions – this was finally a show on NBC that was worth watching that wasn’t Seinfeld wannabes or Sci-Fi. It was also one of the few prime time shows that had a realistic depiction of a gay character who was NOT a drag queen, a femme, a fashion designer or any other sterotype. At the same time, that same character’s “straight” partner was played by a known (and much loved) out gay actor. Added bonuses for an excellent prime time drama!
The More >
New Domain!
Oct 12th
Looks like I lucked out for once!
Not that anyone was particularly looking for this blog by the old subdomain, but we were looking for and registering some other domain names tonight, so I figured “what the heck – might was well check” and go figure! Turns out “BobParker.me” was available after all!
So…the blog is now officially www.BobParker.me instead of the boring and hard-to-remember bob.bobandchris.com!
Not only that, but the aforementioned kitty cats will soon have their own website, where they can show off their adorableness to capture the world. Yep, that’s right – coming to an “internets” near you soon, it’s DelennAndCoco.com, alternatively known as CocoAndDelenn.com (so they don’t get jealous), BobAndChrisPets.com (to include the fish), ChrisAndBobsFamily.info or BobAndChrisFamily.info! Yes, we’ve been around the biz for a while, so we know the value of domains and Search Engine Optimization. That, and our faulty memories, so we can’t remember which name comes first.
Stay Tuned!
True Love – A Family Story
Oct 4th
Anyone who knows me knows that there are two true loves in my life: my husband and my cats. After over 12 years together, there are indeed times I would be hard pressed to tell you which one is THE true love in my life.
Just kidding! Of course Chris is my One True Love! The cats, however, are a close second. We’ve never, ever given a first thought, much less a second one, to having children so they are the closest thing we would ever have to the pitter patter of little feet running around our household.
Not long after we first got together, we were sitting in the living room one evening and there was a knock on the door. One of the old ladies that Chris hung out with at the mailboxes asked him to step out with her. About 10 minutes later he came back in the door with a cat carrier in his hand saying “can we?” with the most gorgeous little lady I’d ever seen in my life. Little Misty was a Ragdoll, a breed famed for it’s beauty and gentle temperament, and her owner (a 93 year old woman) had just had a stroke, so More >