Busy night - Emperor Jade Chicken and Peach "Uncrisp"

Picked a dessert that could work with peaches as I had a lot that were about to go bad.    Also, the dinner is a fairly simple stir fry with chicken and pineapple.    I made plans to go to Ikea (translation - The underbelly of Hell) with some friends, so I managed to get dessert and dinner prepped in the morning.  

Emporer Jade Chicken
4 large chicken breasts
2 cups fresh mushrooms
3 tbsp oil
2 cups sliced celery (only used 1 as I thought this was a bit much)
1 green pepper (used red)
1/4 cup sherry
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tsp garlic powder
2 tbsp corn starch
1 small can pineapple tidbits
1/2 cup green onion, sliced
1/4 cup slivered almonds
Saute chicken in oil until golden brown.   Stir in celery, mushrooms and pepper.  Book 3 minutes.  Drain pineapple and reserve juice.   To pineapple juice, add sherry, soy sauce, garlic powder and corn starch and mix well.   Add to stir fry and cook, while stirring, until thickened.  Fold in pineapple tidbits.   Serve with rice or noodles and add green onions and almonds on top.

Prepared at 10:00 am!

Dinner prepped ahead of time left more time at the worst place on earth!

Apple Crisp
In a greased baking dish, put 2 cups sliced apples and 1 tsp cinnamon.  Pour 1/4 cup water on this.   In a separate bowl, mix 3.4 cup flour, 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup brown sugar.  Pour over top of apples.  Bake at 450 for 30-35 minutes.

My sous chef at work

Results

When you serve dinner and one of your kids immediately says, "What's for dinner tomorrow?", it isn't really a good sign.   Despite the fact that Mike and I quite enjoyed it, I wouldn't call this a hit.   My kids just can't embrace stir fry.  If I served all of the parts of it as separate items, they would eat it.  But God forbid that I mix them up!!  I did it with noodles as we just had rice the day before, plus I was feeding Claire and Kate who aren't big fans of rice.   They both ate it without complaint.  I even turned Claire over to the "Fruit in main course" side as she said that she liked the pineapple.  (Kate, not so much)  

Not a Harker kid favourite, but good, nonetheless

The Crisp?   Well a few problems.   Did I mention I did peach instead of apples?  Since peaches seem so much more wet than apples, I didnt' add the water that was called for.   Also, since I had slightly less than 2 cups worth, I only used half of the topping and saved the other half for another dessert.   I think this was a big mistake as what came out of the oven was a sloppy goo and not a 'crisp'.  Claire thoughtfully told me that her mom has a crisp recipe that always turns out, so maybe I could borrow it?   Thanks, kid.   So, I figured, oh well, must taste good and I stirred the whole mess up and served it on top of the ice cream and re-branded it as "Peach un-crisp sundaes!".  

Houston, we have a problem!

SOLUTION!!