Dilettante triathlon in a week ( Read more... )

My MIL makes turkey soup with dumplings after every major holiday. I personally am not a huge fan of poached bread product, but DH loves the dumplings, so last year I attempted... and failed miserably. The "dumplings" were just drop biscuit dough, and they simply dissolved into the soup ( Read more... )

For Thanksgiving this year, we stayed home and invited another family to join us. My friend and her husband have two kids close in age to our two, so it worked out well ( Read more... )

So when I bought 14# of meat a few weeks ago, part of that was 2# of sirloin. I finally cracked into that this weekend, and Brian and I are going to have it for dinner after laying the kids down early for bed. Stay-at-home date night! It just so happens that tonight is a special day for us, too, as we started dating on the 18th of February a few ( Read more... )

Last night was Friday Night Pizza, and I made a batch of chili and cornbread, plus some oatmeal muffins, for a mom in my MOPS group that recently had a baby. I found out she just became a SAHM after being a working mom with her two-year-old, so I think we're going to try to get together, and I offered her the best advice I got when I became a SAHM ( Read more... )

Monday everyone had off, so we spent it together as a family, including the grocery shopping ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a package of several different cuts of meat from a local butcher. Tonight I finally tackled the pork chops! I had a major craving for some homemade mac and cheese, so the chops ended up just seasoned with salt, pepper, and sage, then panfried. I made a quick sauce by deglazing the pan with white wine, adding some ( Read more... )

We were out of town for a week, got back Tuesday evening. Consequently, we had practically nothing in the house. I ended up taking the kids out for breakfast on Wednesday, as Walgreens (the closest store) had no eggs when I went to pick up milk for K's bottles on Wednesday night ( Read more... )

...and this is why I've started posting what I make! I was able to go back through my posts and find the broth-less black bean soup I made that turned out so well.

Tonight will be black bean soup and corn bread.

We're leaving tomorrow morning for Chicago. Bus, train, plane, car - it will be a day of transportation!

Tonight was another variation on egg bake. I didn't have any green pepper, so I used some orange pepper I'd diced and frozen a while back. I tried pre-cooking the shredded potatoes, we'll see how it turns out!