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Monday, January 25, 2010

alphabet soup.

Two little buddies + magnetic letters + mixing bowls and spoons = perfect contentment.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

The other day my friend Sarah made me a salad.
It was delightful.
Can salads be delightful? This one was.

Sarah is a fantastic cook. She confessed to me that in college she would just sit and read cookbooks. It paid off.
AND, lucky for us, she is generous enough to share her recipes and techniques (rhrecipes.blogspot.com).

We recently tried Sarah's recipe for Popcorn Chicken and Creole Sweet Potato Fries:

And my picky kid who won't eat vegetables? DEVOURED these.

Next on the menu, Sarah's Cuban Braised Beef.

Try it. You'll like it!

Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Battle of the Vegetable

I have strategies.

I puree them and sneak them into sauces and sandwiches and mashed potatoes and pasta. I hide them behind things she likes. I dip them in Ranch Dressing. I let her see me eat them and make all kinds of goofy "yum!" faces. I've tried fresh, jarred, canned, and frozen. I've tried boiled and steamed and sauteed. I've even tried them in cracker form.

Not a chance.

She has tactics, too.

A few days ago I was so excited to see she had eaten her diced carrots.

But then I looked closer.

Smart kid.

all i needed was a little motivation. and a spreadsheet.

It's been hard to get back into the swing of blogging.

It's been hard to get back into the swing of anything, actually. We've all been trading off being sick since New Year's, and haven't had more than a few decent nights' sleep in two weeks. Maddi and I have spent a lot of time in our sweats, napping and reading and watching movies and not getting much of anything done.

Yesterday I'd had it.

I was tired of not being productive, but didn't feel like doing anything. Do Yoga, Micah said, that's usually motivating.

So I did.
And then I did this: