I promised that I'd share my Wonton Taco recipe, so here goes with those...

I promised my friend Annette that I'd share my recipe for Chicken Wonton Tacos (my version of the appetizer @ Applebees.) So I am, and a similar one for Pork Wontons as making the wonton taco shells was horribly difficult, so today I am making pork wonton dumplings. Apparently, I am in a cooking mood today, this morning I made the kids and I fried apples and sausage gravy for breakfast, it was soooooo good. My nephew even had a bit. Anyway,

Chx Wonton Tacos
You need;
Soy Sauce
Teriyaki Sauce
Sesame seeds
bag of coleslaw mix (I used one that had broccoli and carrots in it)
Cilantro
grated ginger
garlic (1 clove)
Hot pepper flakes
limes or lime juice
Sesame Oil * I didn't have still was good.
Ken's steakhouse lite dressing- Asian Sesame with Ginger and Soy.
1 package uncooked chx breast tenders (boneless)
package wonton wraps

Okay, you should be aware, I cook to taste, I do not measure ANYTHING...sorry.
In a frying pan, add a tbsp sesame oil and cook you chx tenders. When they are done, remove and cut/chop well. Place back in pan, add your choice of soy or teriyaki sauce, I used teriyaki. About a tbsp or so? Mix well Add some of the Asian Sesame dressing too, as well as about 2 tsp pepper flakes, some grated ginger and garlic...Simmer until well coated. ...Now, dump your slaw in a bowl, add Asian Sesame dressing  cilantro and lime juice mixing well until coated, don't get tooo saturated.

Now, the taco shells, you'll have to do trial and error until you figure it out, I did mine by hand holding it in oil one at a time, one side at a time and bending it to shape as I did the other side, I think there is a special thing you can get to make homemade tacos, but I don't have one. Put it this way, it was sooo dificult, I am now making them as wonton dumplings instead LOL.


Okay today I am trying these as dumplings with pork roast. Do everything exactly the same way, but this time I am making it as dumplings. I will update when they are done.
Enjoy

Round 3~Treatment 3

Had my 3rd chemo treatment this past Friday (2/26/2010) <~ I think the date is correct, sometimes I lose track, but is it really any wonder?
Every treatment, I get a whopper dose of benedryl as a premed, hence I sleep through most of my treatment. The first 2 treatments were not horrible. I had some fatigue, a mild bit of managable nausea and that was about it, by Saturday evening, I've been fine and back to normal. Then the rash side effect came on my face, it's like horrid acne, it's actually painful. I started getting it cleared up and it started appearing on my abdomen and now breasts and it's starting to appear on my legs and arms. It wouldn't be bad if a few ofd the spots were not so painful, I have 2 different types of ointment for it. One for the morning and one for bedtime. Needless to say, it's annoying, but, better than alternatives, I suppose. SO this 3rd tratment this week, I seemed to be more groggy this time during treatment, I thought it was just my normal Benedryl Buzz, but, I seemed to zap out more yesterday Period. Just no energy and tired as hell. Today I felt better, I actually did quite a bit, went to Winchester to pick up Emily's Saddle Oxfords for Bye, Bye, Birdie that we ordered from Payless and went to Walmart to pick up ANOTHER prescription ( I am on more meds than all my family combined, RIDICULOUS!) and shop for the rest of  her needed Costume pieces...( bobby socks, a white button down shirt, old lady capris, and a cardigan, we ended up hitting  thrift stores for the white shirt and capris, we found a black cardigan at Walmart, hopefully it will do, her poodle skirt is orange and we found soft pink capris.) We also looked for wardrobe for her Share the Fun performance in March, and only found a pair of high heel boots at Goodwill. She is going to sing ' White Horse' By Taylor Swift, so anywho, it was a long morning, I just kind of vegetated all afternoon reading ' Scarlett- The sequel to Gone with The Wind' I'd just finished ' Rhetf Butler's people', (another sequel) at my chemo appt Friday before I fell asleep. Not much else to report, I see my Oncologist at my next appt before my treatment and I am hoping for a few weeks off treatment since I get it every week, Let the rash clear up a bit and my body rest...But I am unsure how this Urbetux stuff goes so we will see. I'll be sure to keep posting.
Upcoming events~
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Bye, Bye, Birdie! By Clarke County Public Schools-
J-WMS Friday 3/19 @ 7:30 PM ,  Saturday 3/20 @ 7:30 PM, & Sunday 3/21 @ 2:30 PM
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Clarke County 4H Leader's Association Sping Fling Basket Bingo
20 Regular Bingos **3 Super Bingos

Raffles all evening
* Door Prize Ticket with Entry
$25.00 for Regular Game Pack with 6 cards/game
$5.00 each 3X Super Bingo Pack
Silent Auction to be announced at Intermission.
LONGABERGER RETIRED BASKETS***SOON TO BE RETIRED BASKETS***AND JUST RELEASED BASKETS!!!
DINNER STARTS BEING SERVED at 6:30 AND BINGO STARTS at 7:45 PM AND ENDS WHENEVER WE GET DONE!
DINNER = Homemade Soups and Sandwiches*Chips* and Desserts, served by some of our outstanding 4Her's!!!!
Email hopehcather@aol.com or cll (540) 550-4277 with questions
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Clarke County 4H Share the Fun- Saturday March 27th, 2010 @ J-WMS 5:00 PM

Lost my blog for a bit...

So, I havn't posted in a while...things have been insane, sorry.Like I said before I spent 2 weeks in the hospital January 20- February 3rd with complications from my Colon Cancer, which sadly is now Stage 4. My oncologist pissed me off with his attitude this time and honestly, I wasn't expecting him to be so defeatist and negative...basically he told me to get my affairs in order, tell my kids I only have so much time, and that I needed to make arrangements for hospice. I had a stomach tube inserted (that has been fun I'll get into this in a bit) and was told I would NEVER eat again, and that having TPN through the tube was not beneficial that there was no proof that having Tpn made anyone live longer than not having ANY nutrition. Hmmmm...somehow, that don't ring right to me...basically it was like " Go home, starve and give up" Luckily, I had a consult from another dr from Pallitive care, who agreed with me about the nutrition and questioned the statement that there was NOTHING they could do for the intestinal blockage issue because surgically I am very iffy at the moment as far as being able to heal well, and he started me on steroids...Guess what? When I was in the hospital on clear liquids only I was fine, when they switched me to heavier liquids it made me sick, but then they switched me to soft foods and I was fine and finally discharged, since I've been home, I am back to pretty normal diet, I just try not to eat things that would be hard to digest. Yes I still have the stomach tube, though I want it OUT. It was inserted only to relieve nausea by draining my stomach contents if needed, and thanks to the steroids helping clear my intestinal inflamation it's not needed. Now, here's how they screwed me up THIS time...The stomach tube it had bumpers, special tension sutures, I could have sworn the Radiology Surgeon said would need to be removed (I  was groggy from pain meds so i wasn't sure), guess what, they weren't  and I was sent home with NO follow up appt made, and NO mention of removing them, even though I questioned it at the hosp. and twice once I saw my Oncologist....it was eating into my gut and tearing the tube incision open...so it got infected, NICE, I went to my dr, showed him or a nurse several times, ASKED weren't they supposed to come out and was told " Oh no, they leave those in to hold the tube in." WRONG.  So after another painful 24 hours where it went from being still halfway out of my flesh that night to being completely INBEDDED that morning, I called the nurse and asked to get an appt to see my surgeon. I go, they look and my surgoen was LIVID, I have never  heard a dr say such stuff about another dr or nurses not doing what they are supposed to, he fixed it (but left the tube said he can't remove it without an order from my oncologist) and sent me to wound care...so it's MUCH better and healing better than we expected. So once again, a medical screwup was made on me...that's what now?  OHHHHH wait, I forgot, the port that was put in at UVA- my surgeon fixed that too, because they placed it incorrectly (and he flat out said so when he fixed my tube issue) and it broke off, so that is 3 fd up ports I've had ...I think I'd be a millionaire if I ever got anything for all the screw ups, talk about malpractice suits!?!

Anyway, I started Urbetux (chemo) at my insistance, have had 3 treatments now, and aside for the lovely painful acne rash it causes on my face and gut, it hasn't been bad...I feel pretty good, pretty normal, I seem to be as healthy as I was before my intestinal flare up, and I am determined to defy his single digit months expiration date he gave me...Speaking of which I just kinda broached that to my girls last night...Emily mainly I made realize that I will most likely not ever get to see get married or have kids, we cried together, I apologized to her, and told her I didn't plan on following the dr's assumptions, that I planned on proving him wrong, but that it was out of my control...great, now I'm crying.

Anyway, that's my update for now.
Gwen

Chemo,Round 3, Treatment 1.

So yesterday I had my first chemo treatment of this round...and I felt great during treatment and for a long while after, then it stopped playing nice...ugh, I'd forgotten this blah feeling. At least this treatment isn't making me as sick as the last one we tried...This time I am having a new treatment option, it's called Urbetux? Here's hoping that the 10 % chance of it helping me stick around longer works...The outlook this time is not great, I am now stage 4 and am overwhelmed by all the stuff drilled into my head in the hospital the last 2 weeks, I am still a bit miffed at my oncologist's attitude this time, it's like he's given up on me...but, that's okay, because that just makes me that much more determined to prove statistics and him wrong, and stick around for much longer than is expected...I have 3 kids dammit and things I want to do and see. And I intend to make sure I do. Like I said, I was in the hospital for half of January with a serious intestinal blockage, lost 20 lbs about, had a broken port removed, a new port replaced and a tube inserted into my stomach, so now that I am ready for battle, it's time to kick cancer's ugly ass away from me again. I intend to see my children all graduate from high school even though I was told my time left is in the single digit months, it's like that one commercial for Cancer Treatment Centers, last I checked I do not have an expiration date stamped on my ass.Well now I am sleepy again, so stay tuned for my next installment. (They won't all be so depressing I hope)
~Gwen