Hi guys! Every week we get a box of produce from Hungry Harvest. The box that we’ve selected is a huge haul of various delicious and tasty fruits and veggies. Sometimes we get veggies that go super fast and sometimes others kind of linger around the fridge. It happened that we had four english cucumbers…
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Recipes and food related posts.
New Kitchen organization strategy. Will it work? Yes, We think.
In my house we cook. By we, I mean I. I cook. A lot. If I am home all day I cook several meals a day. The people I live with insist on eating three times a day and most of those meals come from my hands. LOL! My husband is a newly converted vegetarian,…
Summer is here! Watermelon Pops for all!
I just love watermelon. I hated it until about 5 years ago. It was just yucky stuff until, one day, it wasn’t. I’m not sure what made me eat it five years ago. I have no idea but I do remember thinking about how delicious that juicy cold fruit was. Mmmmm. I want some right…
$2 Lunches in 10 minutes.
Here is my mantra on homemade school lunches: Lunch should be simple, healthy, inexpensive and tasty. I am in the process of putting together an E-Book on lunches that can be made in 10 minutes for around $2. My lunch making process is more of an assembly rather than actually “making” LOL. The truth is,…
Bento boxes!
Hi guys, Here are a few recent bento boxes from our 4th graders lunch. I follow a simple formula for lunches that generally means it has four components: 1. Protein 2. Grain 3. Fruit 4. Veggie I work through these particulars when I do our meal planning for the week. This way my grocery list…
Throwback Pic of our Very 1st Bento Box! & Week 3 Bento lunches
Hi guys! Here are this weeks school lunch bento boxes along with a shot of the very first Bento box that I made. Our first Bento lunch was August 2012! Gabriel, our oldest, was in 3rd grade and Michael, our youngest was in 2nd grade. My, how times has flown by. 🙂 We’ve taken breaks…
Bento school lunches Week 2 + A weird birthday treat.
Hello everyone, We had an amazing week all week long! I hope your week knocked your socks off as well. Last weekend we celebrated Michael’s 9th birthday. We went laser tagging and then had a little party at the house. It was a really fun day. Every year for their birthday I make a weird…
How To Turn Regular Rice Into Amazing-Amazingness.
Hi everyone, Rice is a staple in our home so any chance to turn it into the main course is a win. This is an Italian comfort food, where rice is the star! Our family LOVES: Arancini di riso. This is simply stuffed risotto: over cooked rice when prepared at my house 🙂 rolled in…
School lunch item review + Week 1 (2014/15) Bentos.
Happy Friday. It’s been a busy week around here. The first week of school is officially completed and all the kids are talking about is sleeping in over the weekend. I would like to say that I am in 100% agreement with their weekend plans. I’m pooped and ready for some quiet time and a…
Waffle-wiches are Deli-ci-i-cious!
I discovered last night that sandwiches made from frozen waffles are delicious. Though it might sound a little crazy it’s absolutely a must try. 🙂 We got home really late last night and while the kids did their bedtime routine I made these: The recipe is from Rachel Ray (here’s the book). It’s so simple…
Delicious Shrimp Quesadillas.
I love Pioneer Woman and to be honest I have never tried a recipe of hers that wasn’t delicious! I was watching her show the other evening when she made Shrimp Quesadillas. I filed images of that deliciousness away for later. Well, “later” came this afternoon :). I realized I had tortillas I needed to…
Yummy and Delicious Thai Chicken Pizza
A few weeks ago I realized that I had a problem. I didn’t want to cook anymore. This was really huge for me because I am a cooker! I love the creativity that cooking gives me and I love the reward of eating something tasty. I had just completely run out of inspiration. I realized…
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