Chicken with Yellow Rice

Cooked a family favorite tonight. I forgot how good and easy it is!!

Chicken with Yellow Rice

3-4 chicken breasts

1.5 cups yellow rice

2 cups water

1 cup tomato juice

1 teaspoon salt

1 clove garlic, minced

1 bay leaf

Chopped onion and green pepper (optional)

Dump dry rice in the bottom of a casserole dish. Lay uncooked chicken on top. Mix all remaining ingredients together and pour on top of chicken. Bake, covered, until chicken is done (about an hour) at 350 degrees.

Megan & Adi

So, the engagement I hinted at below is Megan and Adi's!!!

They were in Bosnia visiting all his family that Megan did not know so I wanted to wait until their return. He popped the question while they were in Croatia after the family visits. They have been together since high school!!

We are so happy for them. They move to Chicago next week for Adi to start the MBA program at University of Chicago. We are already excited about going to visit!

No wedding details yet. They are just enjoying the engagement!

July recap

Wow - it's been awhile since my last post huh? We have been busy so here is a quick recap. I will try to be better with pictures and more posts the second half of the year!

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new king bed, flat screen tv, dining room table and server

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hosted first Augusta Supper Club

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dinner at the Rigsby's for Dozier's 32nd birthday

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another wonderful 4th at the lake at Dozier's

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dinner at a new place, Frog Hollow

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Beth Raley Neal is pregnant!

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other friends engaged and pregnant - announcements soon!

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Megan and Adi are in Bosnia and Croatia visiting his family

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Father's Day with the parental units - kebobs on our new grill thanks to Megan and Adi

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marriage celebration this weekend for Jason Capito

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read Lost City of Z - great

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read last two books of Millenium trilogy - eh

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started Banjo on arthritis meds - :(

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Summer bash at the club

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yummy couscous recipe

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dinner at TakoSushi, met Doc Rivers

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looking forward to Levi's return from NM August 10

Wedding slideshow!

If you haven't already, check it out!!

The Shinglers

So, now it is back to real life. While not St Lucia, it is still exciting. We have been busy getting settled and putting everything in its proper place. Our house is already too small. : )

We added a king bed and large tv this past weekend. We will order a dining room table and server tomorrow.

I think this is some sort of hibiscus. It is growing right out our front door. Beautiful!!


This is the mess we made opening gifts on Saturday when we returned to Augusta. Geez...

If you were at the wedding, you remember these bottles that guests signed instead of a guestbook. We opened and drank this Dom on Saturday. We will open and drink 'Big Red One' on our 1st anniversary.

We went to dinner with Megan this past Saturday at Pizza Joint. Here Brad is showing her his grill. He has some fake front teeth from a soccer mishap (I think) and she was checking out Dr. Allgood's latest spruce-up. Dr. Shingler approved!!

I am thinking of changing the blog title to 'Shingler's List.' What do you think???

More honeymoon

I left out the most important part - FOOD!!!

It was stupendous. Although, since it was included, I ate way too much. And then couldn't ever finish dinner. Yummy....

Risotto at Cap Maison.

Oh and one more shot of our room at Ladera. This does not do it justice!

Dinner at Ladera. I had some sort of steak and Brad had mahi.

Honeymoon - Cap Maison

After three nights up in the mountains (see below, Ladera), we went across the island to Cap Maison. This place was amazing as well. It was different in that it had A/C (upstairs) and a beach. We were spoiled with the view and our own pool at Ladera for sure though.

The entrance to our abode.
The beach was cool. Small and private. We staked out some chairs under an umbrella and chilled. We did go snorkeling and that was really cool. We went out maybe 20 feet on one side before we started seeing fish. We saw some cuddlefish, a blowfish, tangs, parrotfish and lots of sea urchins. I was impressed it was that abundant right there at the beach.

A shot from kitchen into the living room. We had great views over the ocean on both balconies. Upstairs was the master suite.

Kitchen. Downstairs was not air-conditioned so we weren't down there much. Except to enjoy breakfast on the veranda.

Rain coming in from Martinique.

Beach shot from our lofty perch under the umbrella!

A private dining area that you can rent. Your food and drink goes down on a zip line. Pretty cool!

Chilaxing...

A hammock they had hanging over the reef. We never did go try it out. : (

A view from our lunch spot.

Our shower upstairs. Very Spanish.

Our bedroom. With A/C!!

A view of the pool from lunch. Very refreshing!!

Piton on the beach.

We had a jacuzzi on the upstairs balcony. Not quite a pool but it was nice nonetheless.

Beach from our balcony.

View from the restaurant out towards reception. This place is only 1.5 years old. It is a Preferred property, as was Kiawah, so I knew it would be nice.

View from the beach of the bar and our room.

Another balcony view.