I decided to call this ice cream cake Evil. It's way easy and pretty dang cheap compared to the DQ or Baskin ones. I'd post it on my blog, but I'm afraid I lure off my own healthy foodie fans ( Read more... )

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The one time this week we had meat- I started making stuff up and ...WOW.

Savory Garlic Coconut Shrimp Risotto
approx 2 to 2 1/2 cups frozen shrimp (pre-cooked, de-veined, tail off- as easy as it comes)
6 cloves garlic
1 1/2 cups water
Juice of 1 lime
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
1 tbsp coconut oil
2 cups pre-cooked brown rice
1 13 oz can coconut milk (you'll ( Read more... )

Some people are brought into our lives for some small purpose, a fleeting moment in the eternities that guides us ever so subtly on our path. Others effect us awesomely. They boldly help to mold our very beings, to fill chasms and coax us to expand ourselves. They wash in like a tidal wave, turning us on our ear and morphing moments of fear into ( Read more... )

Another recipe that turned out delicious just by chance ( Read more... )

As we are sitting together reading Talon's homework book together, Saia has his head on side of my chest ( Read more... )

In tribute to my mama, my favorite of her late summer zucchini recipes ( Read more... )

This morning betty25_boop called to inform me that our accompanist had called at 8:30 this morning to tell her that she'd decided the song was too hard for her. She wanted to know if we could just sing the plain old hymn! Well I just wouldn't have that and I put in a call to my favorite elle_cosette to see if she could rescue us. Like a glimmering goddess she rode in on ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I really got to sing. I mean, not primary talk/teach-singing, and not every other line of hymns whilst telling a toddler the words in between so he can sing along, and not singing while doing dishes and having my kids tell me to be quiet so they can hear their movie ( Read more... )