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I was REALLY not feeling up to cooking tonight, so Jason and I pulled together enough fruit to make a couple of smoothies. It’s bee years since I pulled out my smoothie machine (no, it’s not a regular old blender – which I wish I had – it’s a specialized machine just for smoothies and mixed drinks . . . → Read More: Fruit Smoothie I came up with this recipe after attempting a Sandra Lee recipe. I decided to delete a few ingredients because I didn’t like some of the items (mushrooms, onions, and baby corn). I also bought only one can of the cream soup instead of two. Lastly, I didn’t have any fresh or dried thyme, so I . . . → Read More: Monterey Chicken Last week we came up with 15 of our family’s favorite meals. This week’s challenge from The Happy Housewife was to add another 5 meals and list our favorite side dishes. My first list of meals from last week included our absolute favorite main dishes. This week I’m adding a few meals that we like to splurge . . . → Read More: Menu Planning 101: Assignment 2 I was really not in the mood over the weekend to menu plan. We had a couple of unexpected expenses pop up last week and our grocery budget suffered. We’ve got plenty, but I wasn’t really up for an “eat from our pantry/freezer” challenge quite yet. So, here’s what I came up with for this week. Not . . . → Read More: Menu Plan, week of August 24, 2009 Last week, The Happy Housewife challenged her readers to an assignment. She’s starting a series on how to menu plan and this first assignment was for each reader to come up with a list of 15 meals that their family wanted to eat. Now, I’ve been menu-planning for just about a year now and have really enjoyed . . . → Read More: Menu Planning 101: Assignment 1 I don’t know why it’s been so long since I’ve made these Jell-O Cookies. From the archives of my old journal, it appears to have been since Thanksgiving! According to Jason, we need to make these every day. I am inclined to agree. Each batch makes about 4 dozen and they last about 4 minutes after pulling them . . . → Read More: Jell-O Cookies “Morning” sickness my butt! I’ve read all the WebMD, mommy blog, and website posts I can handle. Even the What To Expect… book says it: “morning” sickness is grossly misnamed. It’s all day sickness for me. When I was pregnant with Jeremy, I had absolutely no morning sickness. Almost unheard of for a first-time mom. The only . . . → Read More: Pregnancy Sickness Wow, I have had very little tolerance for cooking these past few days. Breakfast is whatever I can fathom would stay down, lunch is similar, and dinners are planned but I usually need Jason’s help to cook it. Raw meat (chicken, beef, pork, anything raw) is just more than I can take right now. Hopefully this . . . → Read More: Menu Plan, week of August 17, 2009 I have to give credit where credit is due… I did not make up this recipe on my own. It started with a recipe that my ex-husband’s step mother made one Christmas. She gave me the recipe from an decades old church cookbook. Over the past three years or so I’ve made a few changes of . . . → Read More: Potato Cheese Casserole Jason informed me just this afternoon that we are having friends for dinner on Saturday. I haven’t met Jason’s work friend or his wife, but I’ve heard nice things about them. Apparently the guys worked together in San Diego (my husband’s last unit which we just moved from) and the couple are still newlyweds (though longer . . . → Read More: Friends for Dinner… Help!!  |
    
 
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