My 9 year old made dinner tonight…gluten free chicken nuggets and steamed veggies, with a recipe she found online herself. I was impressed not only with the quality of the meal, but also the research she did to be sure to make something her little brother could eat. It’s always fun to cook.with her, not [...]
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Spinach Pesto
Traditional pesto is really made with pine nuts. But I am allergic to pine nuts, and loving the taste of pesto, decided to come up with my own. (I also had an extra head of fresh spinach and an overgrowth of fresh basil….) This is a very simple recipe, that yields about 1/2 a quart. [...]
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I don’t in general believe in making a separate meal for the kids. Once in a while though, typically when I make something kind of spicy, I do decide to go on and bite the bullet and make something else. When I make my Red Curry Thai Chicken, I tend to go ahead and make [...]
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The other day I started thinking that, ” Jeez my kids really love kale chips.” And although I’m growing kale, it’s not ready to harvest yet. So what other kind of veggies could I get into them by calling them chips? So I decided to create carrot chips. The girls in our family loved [...]
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Is it hot where you are yet? Here in Georgia, in May, it’s so hot that I keep thinking the air conditioning is broken, in spite of its very best efforts. AND IT’S ONLY MAY. Obviously, we can’t totally depend on the air conditioning to keep us cool, and need to devise some of our [...]
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Since I’m starting a new job this week, I will be focusing on some easy, how-to types of recipes and food items, worthwhile, but not as involved as my regular posts. I’ll be back to the regularly scheduled program next week, so please hang in there. So the other night, I think I mentioned, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Cooking and Saving Dried Beans
If you haven’t noticed by reading my previous posts, I like many other Americans (and indeed global citizens everywhere,) am concerned with saving money. I also try to avoid BPA as much as possible in foods, which canned beans have. If you’re on a low-sodium diet, cooking dried beans can help you avoid the salts [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Split Pea Soup
Making the split peas and rice last week and making the comment about humble split pea soup really got me thinking. See, when I was a kid, Split Pea Ham & Bacon soup from Campbell’s was my FAVORITE. My mom thought I was weird. But anyways, I started thinking and I have [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Lamb Steaks
Eating lamb for dinner goes back almost as far as the domestication of animals. Yet, it’s not a very popular meat here in the US. Folks over around the Mediterranean eat it all the time. But why in the heck, you may ask, am I talking about Lamb on Cinco de Mayo? Because, silly, I already posted [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Garlic Split Peas & Rice
The humble split pea is so often sentenced to soup that I felt it deserved a chance at another fate. I also like to sneak veggies in with rice these days since my 2 year old has decided to go on strike. (I will not be defeated!!) Since I’m making a curry chicken dish, I [...]
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