When QJ moves – Part 8 – Banana boxes
So it was brought to my attention that even though I posted an entire series on my move last year and how it affected our eating, I never did post the pictures here on the site that involved the banana boxes. I only posted them on Facebook, oops.
Oh the banana boxes….
So many of them! No, you don’t understand….we had dozens of them. The entire hallway was covered in them. Don’t believe me?
And uh, that actually wasn’t all of them. We had a wall built in the kitchen as well. Chiquita Bananas boxes rock…they’re heavy duty and even though both the bottom and the top had holes in them, the heavy paper inside was sufficient for covering them. Great for packing.
All work and no play….well, wouldn’t have been very fun, so we had to stop for some quirky pictures a couple times, too. There’s my helper, B* above. She was a cuter bunny that day, hehe.
Here’s some of the other banana box labeling pictures, too:
^ That was an attempt at drawing fire with a flat Sharpie.
I really need to post about the Monster Masher one of these days.
I already posted that picture in this post, but it was worth mentioning again because of the boxes.
Little tape, hehe.
Proof of the above and my packing skills:
I may have just restocked our bean collection before the move, oops.
You can thank my mom for the elephant drawing here. Yay for parents who indulge silly requests, hehe.
Smiley faces make everything better, remember? Everybody agrees:
I have a couple pictures from some non-banana boxes, too, that I can’t help but share while I’m at it:
Yay for gaming references. Leave me a comment if you recognize it. :P
I promise you she’s not trying to flip off the camera or attempting a funky peace sign. She had already taken off her bunny ears, but wanted a quirky bunny in this picture, too…..so meet the shadow bunny with the cocked ear, too. <3
And as a reminder, the rest of the posts about my big move can be found here.
Every smile is an awesome smile
Okay, so ignore the bad photo quality. I had to post them anyway for 2 reasons.
1. There were no kids in the house. That smiley face arrangement of tuna cake open-faced sandwiches is just for me.
2. The bottom picture was not mine. Isn’t it boring? I wish I could say they were aiming for a W…or maybe part of a pitchfork on the left. Or some Japanese symbol or art on the right. But no. Just plain, accidental ketchup and mustard piles. Booorrriiinnngggg. :P
Ladybugs on boats and bacon caterpillars – Tyson grilled chicken
I guess they’re more like rafts, since I didn’t add bacon sails like I considered, but still better than ants on a log.
Actually, my final dish is completely different than what I originally had in mind. Tyson and Foodbuzz sent me a coupon to try out Tyson’s new Grilled & Ready items. Turns out, my store only carries the chicken variety and not the steak like I was planning on, so those plans got scrapped.
Then I thought they were more stick-like and less flat, so my ideas involving various sized cubes wasn’t really going to look right. The next step I got mostly right, realizing they were larger pieces, but I was a bit disappointed to see that it wasn’t all strips like I thought it’d be.
See? There are a fair number of chicken strip type pieces but most weren’t very long and there were way more “bits” than I would’ve expected. Oh well. At least there were plenty of little pieces to taste test, I guess. :P
Ultimately, instead of the chicken becoming the main focus of the dish like would be typical of a review, the pieces were used as vehicles for my ladybugs. Had there been more full pieces like there should’ve been, there would’ve been way more ladybugs.
I wanted some bacon caterpillars, but wasn’t sure how well they’d hold up.
To get this little guys, I sliced turkey bacon into smaller strips, folded it onto toothpicks (skewers for the larger snake-esque ones, and just free form with the squiggly ones), and baked them on an greased baking sheet.
They slid off surprisingly well, but that left me with some holes to deal with. Which of course meant, more smiley faces. :P
It looks more like a ghost there, huh? Ooooooo.
While I’m at it, I had some other, um, odd turnouts. Before I settled on exactly how to make the ladybugs, I tried several variations.
Some were obviously better than others. When I was trying to cut the tomatoes the other direction, I got some weird lumpy ones, so I added smiley faces to those, too, and made ‘em look like something from Monsters Inc.
Alright, alright, enough pictures. Anyway, Tyson’s Grilled & Ready chicken was definitely tasty. L even said it was her favorite part of the dish, even over and above the bacon (*gasp*). It stayed tender and moist, heated up quickly, and the grill marks were a nice touch. I do wish the pieces had been more uniform in size and shape, but oh well, it tasted great and gave me a reason to split up the package into two dishes.
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