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Mild Chicken Apple curry

On October 23, 2012 By

My job has recently started doing food contests. It is a potluck style challenge with a theme item that you need to include in the dish. The first theme was apple. Most people made dessert, so there was a lot of sweets. I decided to be a bit different and make a dinner. Here is [...]

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I’m going to get the blog back on track… With food.

Food you say? But you’re a mom blog.

Yes that’s true but food is at the very heart of every family. And so I’m going to come back with a recipe.

Lately getting food on the table has become so much more difficult. On [...]

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This is an adaptation from a heart healthy alfredo recipe I saw on Oprah ages ago. This is the closest thing I have found to tasting like alfredo.

2 cups canelli, great northern or white beans

2 cups soy milk (original)

2 tbl garlic powder

3/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

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Big Brother is allergic to tomatoes so I have been experimenting with the uses of red peppers. I came up with a tasty recipe for Roasted Red Pepper sauce to use in place of tomato sauce.

What you’ll need:

2 jars roasted sweet peppers

1 1/2 cups of chicken broth (I make [...]

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Halloween Food

On October 7, 2011 By

Yay for October! I love Halloween. I love dressing up and getting candy, who doesn’t love that? My good friend Jamy has a party almost every year and with it comes the need to make some fun, creepy or just plain awesome food. I’m not really sure what I will do this year, [...]

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Angry Birds Cake

On May 23, 2011 By

Yes, you read that right! I can’t even believe it, but I pulled it off.

This week has been a birthday week. First we had our own little party for D at home. Just the three of us. It was a nice time. Then we had a friend party for D and J on [...]

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In our latest farm share box we were given Delicata squash.

I had never seen this before, so I went hunting around the internet to find some recipes. I came across some really yummy looking soups, unfortunately Little G is allergic to milk and therefore, we couldn’t use them. I was a bit bummed, [...]

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4 Minute Dessert Tortilla

On October 6, 2010 By

These are super yummy and super easy to make.

You will need:

1 tortilla butter sugar cinnamon chocolate sauce (optional for variation 1 and 2) peanut butter (optional for variation 2)

First you take a flour tortilla and spread a thin layer of butter (or butter substitute, as it is only used to help the [...]

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This came out AMAZING! I was worried about trying this, but it was awesome. Even my very skeptical D loved it. You should definitely try it at home.

I would like to thank Kristin from Peace, Love and Muesli for giving me the inspiration to even attempt this. [...]

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Hello Produce!

On June 7, 2010 By

Last Tuesday started our CSA. Man, oh man are we drowning in produce.

Check it out!

Thank goodness we are splitting our full share with a friend. We have eaten tons of salad this week.

Things I have learned/bonuses:

Salad Turnips are fantastic! They are mild and yummy. [...]

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