Our New Pet-venture

Okay, it's true.  I have a weak spot... for animals... and for my boys... and for well, okay I don't want to fill you in on ALL of my weak spots, you might call me with an offer I can't pass up!

Last week I got a text message from my mother in law asking if we would like 2 hamsters.  You might not know this, but I had hamsters as a child, I was fascinated of them - and terribly afraid that they would bite me.  I like them, but didn't REALLY want to touch them.  Yep, I'm kind of funny like that.

So, I said "Sure".  And that was the end of it.  Last night, our new pets: Peanut and Rhino came to our house.  Now, Peanut and Rhino are the names these boys came with.  We could not leave them like that.  Our boys quickly found much more um.. suitable names.  Manasseh wanted to name them "Nasa and Cash" after him and his brother.  Cassius wanted to name one "Chicken".

So here I will introduce to you Nasa and Chicken.  Nasa is slightly larger than Chicken.  The curious (hungry) cat?  That's Farlow.

Gluten and egg free chicken nuggets

Okay, so I cheated.  I started with chicken strips, just plain unbreaded strips, and I cut them into chunks and breaded them. I needed "bread" crumbs for my meatloaf too, so here is how I made the breading for both.

I pulled out my handy-dandy $3 mini-food chopper that I got at Wal-mart on Black Friday.  I put a hand full of corn tortilla chips into it, and let my 2 year old chop away.  He loves pushing the button and making the whirrring sound.  I did this several times. 

Once I had what looked like enough chips, I added a bit of Parmesan cheese and mixed it up.

I took my bits of chickens and coated them in the chip/cheese breading.. threw them into the oven at 400 for about 10 minutes.. and.. wala! Chicken nuggets.

Now, the chip breading doesn't taste quite like flour breading (because it's corn).. so in my opinion, they need some type of dipping sauce.. but overall, they're not too bad.

Do you have a favorite gluten/egg free recipe?