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Oh my goodness gracious! This is just Heaven on a plate I tell ya…
I read somewhere (clueless now where, so sorry!) that blueberries are fabulous to give your kids as they hold LOADS of the good stuff that most veggies do. And well, if you have kids (who me?) that aren’t huge fans of veggies (what? mine?) then you should go ahead and load up EVERY plate you can with blueberries. So I went out and bought a big box at Costco (not that my kids…
I love easy dinners. I’ve cooked a lot of nice dinners the past few weeks (nice = not hot dogs). Super simple dinners, but they’ve been above average dinners to end the day with…It always makes me feel better when I can put something good on the table, that makes me feel like I spent A LOT of time preparing it, but secretly know it took about 20 minutes!
This was our menu a few weeks ago (prior to all the road trip and vacation craziness!)
A couple of weeks ago our Plum tree was going CRAZY with ripe plums and I was desperate to find as many recipes as I could to use them up. I sent out a call for help (AKA – “Tweeted”!) for Plum recipes. To my pleasure a wonderful new friend, who I had recently met at the Thermador event in Arizona (yep, that’s a post I still need to write…), Maria from Two Peas and their…
This past Friday my guy and I were able to take a much needed date night. Love them Littles, but a night off with a couple great cocktails at Fashion Island’s newest restaurant, True Food Kitchen, was just what we needed!
To back this story up a bit, I was recently introduced to an organization with a TRUE commitment, Beckstrand Cancer Foundation.
Why is this organization a part of my favorites list?
Because of this…
“Beckstrand Cancer Foundation serves patients who are in the…
Sometimes you just need an easy dinner.
And by easy I mean, barely needing to lift a finger.
Do you have a rice cooker?
I found this recipe on Weelicious. And I’ve sung it’s praises before.
But now it has become a staple in our house.
It takes me closer to 40 or 50 minutes. My rice cooker is a combo deal, so I set the oven timer.
We love dessert in our house.
And I love to play the game of “use all leftovers, must.use.everything.in.the.fridge.and.freezer”
It’s a delusional game, but it gets me my jollies. I know, weird.
Anyway, I usually win.
Except this one time when my mother-in-law asked if I wanted to save grilled hot dogs leftover from an afternoon BBQ.
Me: “No, I think I’m gonna draw the line there. I mean, how many dishes can you REALLY use leftover hot dogs in??”
Ever since returning from Thermador’s Steamy event, I’ve been on a bigger than normal cooking kick. Plus because it’s Summer and the garden is bursting with great herbs and veggies to use, it just MAKES you want to cook. But it DOES NOT MAKE me want to clean up dishes, or be slaving in a hot kitchen when we are in the middle of a heat wave. So I’ve been searching out quick and easy dinners, that are super flavorful, AND that everyone in the family can enjoy.
I started…
Got Zuchinni? Got Squash? Need a recipe to help use up a summer bounty?? I know Momfluential does! Have you seen her veggie wagon!?!?!? My garden is not quite in that league, but we had a nice first crop when I got back last week, so I went in search of a recipe. This time it was Jamie Oliver that saved the day. Oh man was it good. Honestly, I couldn’t wait for the leftovers for lunch the next day!
(Image: Picky Palate – And please note, how amazingly PERFECT this looks!! Not so much for ours!)
I am on such a recipe kick these days! Must have been that Thermador event last week!!! It actually IS because of the Thermador event…I was surrounded by some of the BEST food bloggers in the country, along with some of the BEST cooking appliances in the country…how could I NOT be inspired to do more cooking??? That post is coming soon, very soon….but until…
Yep, it’s going to be a 3 post Friday. I don’t think I’ve ever posted 3 things in 1 day, BUT, if you had eaten what I’ve eaten today…
Which means A LOT.
Like WAY TOO much.
As in COULDN’T STOP MYSELF because it was all so good….
You might post 3 times too!
(I also know that when I fly home tomorrow, Hubs is going on a little guys trip, leaving me with a “girls weekend” except I will be the only one over the age of TWO. I’m guessing this wont leave…
You all know I’m a pancake lover. We make this pancake recipe more than any other recipe. It is THE Saturday morning, got it going on, gonna love ya forever, pancake recipe.
I love my pancakes with whipped cream, fresh strawberries and warm coconut syrup. I’m a little high maintenance that way. (I don’t do a lot of things the high maintenance way, but the ones I do, I really do, because I REALLY love them!)
But my pancake toppings of choice may have changed this morning. Or at…
Oh boy. I don’t even know where to begin. You may have seen my post this AM about the little adventure I’m on…
Or if you follow me on Twitter you probably saw about 200 tweets today (check for #steamythermador) on the AMAZING food we ate and the incredible kitchen appliances we were introduced to at Thermador…..seriously, I’m NEVER leaving.
Well, OK, maybe I’m already back at the hotel, but it doesn’t mean it’s beneath me to sneak back in tonight and set up camp…
My Genius Sister-in-Law, my Brilliant Sister-in-Law and I threw a baby shower for my ever so pregnant Fabulous Sister-in-Law this past weekend (Yep. That’s a lot of Sister-in-Laws!!). Now to say that I was really involved…kind of a stretch. I helped with the games. Genius Sister-in-Law was the amazing brain and orchestrator and Brilliant Sister-in-Law came up with a BRILLIANT gift addition to the shower. It was such a sweet and special afternoon!
This is my Fabulous Sister-in-Law. Her sweet baby girl will be grand baby #10!
And would you…
Wow, every week I think I will be closer to getting my act together, and every week seems like that light is further and further away…thank goodness for Readers.
Do you know what an RSS feed reader is?? I’m probably calling it by the wrong name it’s so new to me.  Sandy Heit first told me about them…and I think I replied with “Yeah, yeah, yeah…but I really like my daily blog subscription emails coming to my in-box so I don’t…
Today is a little different than normal. We may have a few extra friends stopping by to say “Hello” at My Favorite Everything because today is…My SITS Featured Blogger Day!
For those that have no idea what that means, SITS is a ridiculously, crazy supportive group that introduces you to other fabulously fun blogs, and today is the day for My Favorite Everything’s introduction! Talk about a Favorite Day! Thank you Heather & Tiffany!
I’m going to keep this short & simple I hope (if you know me,…
I’m slowly getting back up to full speed, well maybe half speed. It’s definitely taking longer than I planned. Not that I need to “recover”, it’s just the balance and finding the time. Normally I have evenings to work after the kids are in bed, but right now I have lost the ability to keep my eyes open past 8:30.
That’s A LOT of lost work hours!!
Plus the days I have our Right Hand working with me, she only has Addie & Hay, Piper is still with me…
OK, OK, it’s time to let the secret out of the bag…
If Kelly Ripa is going to be honest, I might as well tell you too.
For everyone that wondered how I had a baby and a few minutes later my hair was “perfect” …
(if you say so)
And HOW I can get it all done in a day???
You TOO can use this FAVORITE!!
(Disclosure, I found this video on the Whatever…. site when I was looking up a rainbow cake tutorial and could not stop crying, laughing! Regular post will be back tomorrow!!)
Happy Friday everyone! It’s our last family weekend with 4, come Tuesday we will be 5…and that just sounds like a BIG NUMBER! My husband is thinking plane tickets, ski lift tickets, school tuition, cars, and weddings…..I’m just thinking of shoes….
Just to let you know, next week’s menu and shopping list are posted. And I am hoping to post one for each of the weeks in March. We will not be making these menus in our house as we have been given a GIFT from SO MANY FRIENDS…
Happy Friday Everyone!!
So this Friday’s suggestions actually come from a reader that sent in a request for “Meatless Menus” for the next 5 Fridays in observance of Lent. Now if you know me at all, then you know I’m not a seafood eater, so typically when we go in the seafood direction I’m heading to Bear Flag Fish Company for fish tacos because they are AMAZING! Or to Gulfstream for their grilled Ono, YUM! Neither of these have any “fishy” taste to me and…
What to do for a birthday party when one daughter is turning 1, the other is turning 2, the budget is limited, and you have 2 weeks left before Baby #3 arrives????
SOCK HOP!!!
And thankfully the rain held out for us. It got a little chilly by the end, but I think both kids and parents had fun, and I honestly felt like it was the easiest party we’ve thrown. (BTW – VERY HELPFUL to have a very patient and helpful husband, and a fabulous…
ends Thursday, September 2, 2010
