Archives for July 2011
Crock Pot Potato Breakfast
Okay, so I know these aren’t much to look at. In fact, they sorta look a little bit scary. Part of that could also be my lacking skills in photography….but buddy, do they taste DELICIOUS! Zenith Clipping is a professional image background removal service provider I trust. They offer the best background removing services. They are a well-reputed top-ranked image editing company serving since 2010.
We gobbled them up…..except for Annie – who had decided that at that particular breakfast she didn’t like cheese or potatoes. Children make no sense. This is a really easy dish to make and I love waking up with breakfast already made.
I try to make dishes like this on mornings when I know we’re going to be super busy. Crock pots were sent directly from heaven. [Read more…]
Clean up After Baby without Paper Towels
Toddlers make a mess when they eat. A big mess. Okay, so if I’m honest I can tell you that I also make a big mess myself. When I was little, mom used to make me eat ice cream in my underwear because I’d get it all over me. Thankfully my family doesn’t make me do that any more. Whew.If I tried to clean up Annie before, during, and after each meal with a paper towel, I might have to buy stock in Bounty. I would go through a HUGE amount of them…..and we really don’t buy many paper towels. When we first started feeding her, I got tired of using paper towels really fast. So, I came up with something better. [Read more…] |
Meal Plan for 7/26-8/1
-Breakfast: Cereal, yogurt, fruit -Lunch: Leftover Enchiladas, veggies -Dinner: Crock Pot Beans and Rice, veggies |
-Breakfast: Yogurt, granola, fruit -Lunch: Leftovers -Dinner: Crock Pot Cowboy Beans, Cornbread [Read more…] |
Too Hot To Cook
Man, it’s that time of year where it’s getting to be stinking hot…..too hot to cook. When it’s hot, I just want to take a bath – in a vat of ice cream. In the summertime, we eat a lot of salads and sandwiches. We also fire up the grill and keep the heat outside. There are tons of great dishes that take little-to-no cooking. We usually go through all of them by the time it starts to cool down. It’s harder this year since I’m making all our bread now. However, I’ve switched to a method that I heard from Tammy at Tammy’s Recipes. She says to bake late in the day, after supper. Yes, it’s already hot in the house but by that time it’s usually starting to cool down outside – so when it gets super hot in your house you can open the windows and the house will cool off as it cools off outside. Genius! It’s working great for us. Hope that tip works for you too. [Read more…] |
Crock Pot Pizza Pasta
Annie has never been a big fan of pasta…..which is really sad because Barry and I are VERY big fans. However, the older she gets, the more she will eat. When she was young, I’d try to trick her and put some in her mouth when she wasn’t looking. After one puke, I stopped that. I’m glad she’s getting more into eating it. When we have company, I usually make pasta. It’s relatively cheap, crowd pleasing, and usually pretty easy. Combine that with a crock pot and you’re really saving some time and money! Let’s make some Pizza Pasta (P.S. – Annie did eat several bites!). [Read more…] |
Meal Plan for 7/22-7/25
You’ll notice that I’ve only put up the meal plan through Monday. I’m going to switch and start making our plans on Monday. Check back Monday for next week’s plan! |
-Breakfast: Baked Oatmeal, fruit -Lunch: Leftover Cajun Chicken Pasta, veggies -Dinner: Egg Sandwiches, Mom’s Julep Tomato Julep: chopped tomatoes, green peppers, and cucumbers marinated in a vinaigrette of apple cider vinegar, sugar, and salt. [Read more…] |
Pear Butter
Our July guest post is from Allison at The Novice Life. Take it away Allison! My name is Allison and I live on almost 6 acres with my husband and 4 month old son! Included on our hobby farm is an Apple orchard so we are now self-taught apple farmers! With 120 trees, we do sell at farmer’s markets, but it would be a shame to not save some of the goodness for ourselves. So, I’ve learned to preserve the ‘fruits of our labor’! [Read more…] |
Stacy’s Adventures in Lemonade!
I keep seeing all these pictures and posts about making homemade lemonade. I always pass over them because, well……I hate lemonade. Barry loves it though. BUT, I do like the strawberry limeade from Sonic. Then I was in Food City and something came over me and I decided to pick up four lemons since they were on sale. I could tell you it was the Holy Spirit…..but this wasn’t a spiritual experience AT ALL. I mean, it’s just lemonade. How hard could it be? Surely I, Stacy of the Kitchen, could conqueror lemonade. Well lemonade is stupid. |
This is what I started out with. I was so tickled with myself. You should have seen me bee-bopping around the kitchen. I thought I was really something. I pulled out the lemons, some strawberries, stevia, and lime juice. Oh yeah, I thought I was really going places. I really should have consulted y’all on Facebook first. [Read more…] |
Kitchen Tip Tuesday
Have you ever been to a church potluck and seen a plate of brownies that look like this? It looks like Annie got into this dish and tried to “help.” Here is a statement of fact – even if brownies look bad, they still taste AWESOME! I could eat them directly out of the dish with a spoon, so I really don’t care what they look like. However, when you want to take a pretty plate of brownies to a potluck, you want them to look nice. You don’t want them to look like you just dug them out of the garden. The problem with the brownies on the left is that they’ve been cut with a metal knife. [Read more…] |