Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Eating at home.

We've actually been doing really good about eating at home and not eating junk... I just haven't updated my blog to tell you all about it :)

So I've got a good menu list made up and we've been doing pretty good about sticking to it. When we don't we usually are eating more leftovers than I thought we'd have, or skipping meals (bad, I know).

Lately we've been doing Poppy Seed Chicken (thanks to Aunt Donna), Pizza, Enchiladas, Quesadillas, Spaghetti, Pancakes, Lentil Ham Soup... and others that I can't think of.

Last night, I made Jesse pancakes since he's sick (he got bronchitis somehow... and so he's very tired). This recipe is based on Marilee's, written down and adjusted by Andrew.
Here's the magic Selin whole wheat pancake recipe:
Yield: Big! It's the WHOLE family recipe, I think... I cut it in thirds or two-thirds since eggs are hard to halve.
3 c. white flour
1 c. whole
3 large eggs
3 c. milk
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. banking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. sugar
1/2 c. oil
Directions: mix it all up and pour it on a hot skillet. That's all folks. I make it look sooo easy :)

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Made From Scratch.

Upon recent inspiration, I am going to try to be a better blogger :)
Also "inspired"/stolen from another blogger, I'm going to try to make all our dinners from scratch for a week. Not including if we aren't home.
But that doesn't start yet, we still have leftovers from last week to finish off.
I've also been thinking/dreaming up projects to work on -- craft-wise. Goodness knows, I ought to have the spare time... not working and all. The time just seems to slip through my fingers so I'm going to try to schedule it in.
Eh... I have high hopes but I'm too much of a realist to get excited about them.

Anyone want to vote:
Make a purse/diaper bag/satchel thing similar to this only less slouchy:
Or starting a quilt
Or some miscellaneous crochet project
Or do memo-boards to sell on etsy like I did for xmas (like this):

(P.S. note to self: I need to find my postcard collection...)