Archive for the ‘Fun in the Kitchen’ Category
Corn!
I love sweet corn, love, love it! It is one of my favorite things about summer. I had the opportunity on Friday to go pick organic, sweet corn for a ridiculously low price. I was allowed to pick three dozen so I did. I read up on how to freeze it here, and learned a [...]
Ethiopian Food and Cooking
I love cooking, I love it more now than I ever thought I would. Yes there are nights I don’t want to cook dinner, but once I start the process my mood usually improves. I had never had Ethiopian food before we decided to adopt from Ethiopia. I quickly found out I love it. It [...]
Yet’ef Injera
Utensils: large pancake pan or large frying pan large pot deep mixing bowl Ingredients: 1.5 pounds teff flour 6 cups of water 2 pkt. yeast Preparation: Clean teff thoroughly by removing all foreign materials , grind to a fine powder (mine was flour already, so I skipped.) Sift into a deep mixing bowl. Adding water [...]
Making Injera
Tomorrow is our Family Day and I am making Ethiopian food for the first time (hope it turns out!). I am looking forward to adding Ethiopian food to our meal rotation, we all love it, plus it is easy to make vegetarian or vegan. Tonight we made the injera (a spongy bread made from teff [...]
Zucchini, Zucchini, Zucchini
Summer gardening season is upon us and if you planted zucchini you will more than likely have more than you know what to do with. Recently another gardener gave me about six pounds of zucchini and I’ve been working my way through it. I thought I would share a couple of recipes we really liked. [...]
Letting go
Yesterday I decided to let go of control, the control I had because I still fed the boys their breakfast and lunch. I decided it was time they could feed themselves. They’ve been feeding themselves dinner for a long time and I had been resisting letting them feed themselves the rest of their meals. Today [...]
When life gives you beans make hummus.
What you’re not familiar with that saying? This morning I woke up ready to can black beans for the first time. You see we eat a lot of beans around here and I am concerned about feeding too much BPA to my little cuties. I am sure in very small amounts our bodies could rid [...]
Adding Variety
The boys are (thankfully) still at the age where pickiness hasn’t yet developed. I am hoping to head off some of the toddler pickiness by adding lots and lots of variety now. They do have some food items they clearly love more than others, some healthy (oranges, carrots, sweet potatoes, applesauce) some more questionable (pizza, [...]
Making Baby Food
I promise not all our NaBloPoMo posts are going to just be quick photos and videos, but I will say those are so much easier right now! I have a lot I would like to share and get out of my head, but most days my brain is mush. I decided to make all the [...]
Pesto Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
I recently discovered this blog and was thrilled. I am learning to love my slow cooker more and more every week. It allows me to put meals together during nap-time and it doesn’t heat up the kitchen. When I saw this recipe I had to try it. I love sweet potatoes and pesto! I had [...]
Food Waste Reduction Challenge
More than 40 percent of all food produced in America is not eaten, according to research by former University of Arizona anthropologist Timothy Jones. That amounts to more than 29 million tons of food waste each year, or enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three days. Nationwide, food scraps make up 17 percent of what we [...]
Cranberry Sauce
Okay it’s half-time (Cowboys are winning!) so I thought I would share the cranberry sauce I made. It is yummy! I know some people prefer the canned version but I never could get myself to eat it straight out of the can, just not appetizing to me. Ginger & Pear Cranberry Sauce Good Housekeeping November [...]