dinner on us!

Jill came over yesterday so we could cook up some dinner. My mom and i picked her up and while we were on our way to Shop Rite, we looked through her cookbook and found a great recipe for dessert and the entree'. the salad was our own concoction. =) we spent like an hour in the store, trying to get everything we needed without the aid of a list or my mom (she went around the store by herself and picked up some reg food). jill and i were able to find everything except corn starch and green onions. i didn't even know green onions existed! okay, fine. you can think i'm dumb but seriously all i heard of were red and white ones. the corn starch was nowhere to be found. i don't know why but the only one we could find was something from the healthy aisle and jill didn't want to use that because "it has organic crap in it". the only question i have is: why in the world is corn starch in the health food aisle? doesn't that defeat the purpose of it being a health food aisle when you have STARCH among the organic products? ehh. that's jersey for ya. haha just kidding. love jersey!! moving on...
instead of being able to get green onions (they were out...) we used a red onion. my mom said we already had corn starch so that was great. there were some really cute guys in the store and we spent the rest of the time, trying to go down the aisles with the cute stacking guys to see if they would pay us any attention. yea we're dorks. but it was fun!
we came home and began to cook. we decided to do the dessert first since it took 25 minutes to cook. by the time it cooled, we would be done dinner. we made a peach, strawberry cobbler with honey bunches of oats with almonds as the crunchy topping. yumsters! we finished that and put it in the oven while we turned our attention to the main dish. we decided on a chicken teriyaki with snow peas, red onion, and red peppers over some white rice. quick and easy. only 25 minutes for the entire thing, including prep time. the chicken was kind of hard to cut because it tried to slide away from the blade. oh well! we got it done. Jill was in charge of the skillet while i cut up the veggies for the salad. spring mix with grape tomato halves, yellow and red peppers, onions, and kraft cheese crumbles on top. everything was ready in about 2 hours. not bad for the first NE friends' cook day =)

the result--everyone loved it! my dad had two servings which means it's very good! Everything was cooked to perfection and the best part was not having my mom cook for once. she could just sit, relax, and enjoy the meal. also, cooking with jill is so much fun! we're planning on going over her house and cooking for her mom....so all in all a great evening spent. =D

"i do not understand"