It has been A WEEK. I barely cooked because my kitchen was under attack.
Tuesday mid-afternoon, my youngest jumped out from underneath our kitchen table and told us that he saw a mouse running across the floor. A mouse! Going very fast! We've never had a mouse issue in the 2 1/2 years here, and my sweet kid DOES tend to exaggerate a little, so we sort of took it with a grain of salt.
A few hours later, I started making falafel for dinner. Halfway through frying, my husband jumps and says "OMG there IS a mouse in here! Ran right by me!". Whereupon I promptly left the kitchen, leaving my husband to turn off the stove and put the half cooked dinner away. I did not come back to the kitchen.
My friend, who deserves all the flowers, gave me a House of Death trap and a bottle of wine. It helped, a little.
Wednesday morning the amazing crew at PestNow came out, and informed me that the putty sealing our gas line had crumbled, leaving a nice Mickey-sized hole in the front of the house. Mouse was running along the gas line, straight up under our kitchen island, coming out beneath the refrigerated drawers. They caught one in the gas line, we caught another in the House of Death, and the hole is sealed. Hopefully that is the last one we EVER see in here. (We still have glue traps in front of the drawers for now, just in case.)
I can deal with snakes, cockroaches, baby lizards. I CANNOT DEAL WITH MICE.
I am still jumpy, but managed to make dinner tonight. This is a long, slow cook.
Ingredients (enough for 7 plus leftover)
2-3 chicken breasts
6 russet potatoes
1 cup baby carrots
4 yellow onions
1 small can tomato paste
2 cups chicken broth
BBQ sauce
Salt
Pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 275 º
Cut up potatoes, onions, and chicken breasts into chunks. I cut a little on the small side for the kids.
Layer half of the potatoes and onions in the bottom of a dutch oven or an oven-friendly large pot.
Add 1/2 cup baby carrots.
Add half of the chicken.
Thickly drizzle BBQ sauce over the stew mixture.
Add 1/2 of the can of tomato paste.
Season with salt and pepper.
Repeat layering with ingredients.
Add the 2 cups of chicken broth.
Cover and bake for 4 hours. Stir halfway through baking.
DID THEY EAT IT? ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Mr Picky didn't touch it, as usual. He was happy with challah and Brussels sprouts. My youngest was full after the matzah ball soup, he didn't want anything else. The other 3 dug in happily. I'm going to count this a success, because most of us were happy and I'm pretty sure the little one would have eaten it if there wasn't any soup. (The gravy is DIVINE)
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