I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
Oooh, I have so many good bread recipes. But there is one that rises to the top as the dominant alpha male and continues to assert his authority by snarling viciously at the lesser breads. Viciously. Introducing… The Awesome Bread (a.k.a. Half-Whole Wheat Honey Oatmeal Bread with Butter Crust) (See the splatter spots on the [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on May 8th, 2008 | 20 Comments »
I have a confession. I tend to buy carrots and celery for one particular meal and then let them go bad in the fridge waiting for that meal to make its way back on the rotation. Because that meal only called for two stalks of celery or three medium carrots. And the bags of said [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on May 1st, 2008 | 4 Comments »
First of all, my apologies for completely spacing yesterday. Giveaways and What I Believe have wiped my brain clean of any intelligent bloggy thought. Hopefully you’ll forgive me. Second of all, after Thanksgiving this year, I posted three cooked turkey recipes I used to get rid of the mass quantities of turkey our family of [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on April 25th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Let’s just make a list of the average toddler lunch menu: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich Grilled cheese Hot dogs Lunch meat ______________ (fill in the blank) I started to really look into these foods to see what my girl was eating on a daily basis and found: [Cheap] Jelly has high fructose corn syrup [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on April 17th, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Seriously. Blue ribbons. I need to find me a state fair so I can win some. The Crust (For butter crust recipe, click here) Ingredients: 2 1/4 c all-purpose flour 3/4 tsp salt 2/3 c. shortening 8-10 tbs cold water In a medium bowl, stir together flour and salt. Using a pastry blender, cut in [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on April 9th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It’s savory. Oh, so savory. Josh insists on putting barbecue sauce on it, but I can’t stand anything covering the … the … SAVORY taste of this meat. This is by far my favorite crock pot recipe. Especially because I can easily freeze half for a later dinner. (And we eat a LOT.) (Also good [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on April 2nd, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Here’s a meal I’ve made… twice? Maybe three times. It’s, in my opinion, a culinary masterpiece. (It involves making your own sauce.) (Which I’m sure many of you do on a daily basis.) (So maybe this meal won’t be all Fancy-Schmancy for you.) But, due to the time involved, and the fact that everything is [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on March 27th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Oh. My. Goodness. This was hard. I asked my husband for a week straight what his favorite meal was. He had no answer. Or if he did have an answer, it changed daily. Or hourly. And sometimes even minutely. *Glee* He likes everything I make. His favorite answer tonight, though, was Cheesy Chicken Tortellini Bake. [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on March 20th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes my husband requires expensive dinners. His favorites include steak on the grill, pork tenderloin, and any-and-all roasts. However, that much meat requires an equal and opposite El Cheapo Dinner. Probably the most popular El Cheapo Dinner around here is quesadillas. Ingredients: Corn tortillas Mozzarella or cheddar cheese or really, any kind of cheese you’re [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on March 13th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
To be honest, I was a bit torn as to which recipe pile from which I should choose for this category. Because most of what I snack unhealthily on is not technically a snack. It is a dessert that I munch on throughout the day. But since a “dessert” is unhealthy and “something you munch [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on March 6th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
