Hannah made dinner!

Hannah's creative dinner idea! Tortilla chips with tomatoes, chopped spinach, cheese and cream cheese! Was pretty yummy!

Cilantro is a salads best friend!

I recently discovered how amazing herbs are in a salad, expecially Cilantro!!!

1st Food Co-op Order!!

When I got here, I soon realized finding a health food store was not easy, and the two very smalls ones in the area are also very pricey :-( Then I discovered Trader Joes, which I LOOOOOOVE!!! But, I still couldnt get everything there, and wanted to buy in bulk. And I wanted organic. I get very reasonable prices on sugar, flour and oil at the Commissary on base. And the strawberry patch sells farm fresh local eggs. But I could not find things like organic dried beans. So, a friend reminded me of one resource I had found about a year ago, called Quail Cove Farms! It works kind of like a Food Co-op, so Ill call it that :-) That same friend posted a link on Facebook to a video called "The Future of Food", and after viewing it, I knew it was beyond time to go fully organic! So, we are about a month in, and cooking about 95% from scratch. (which isnt a big deal, we were already about 80%) So, here is my loot from my first order. Red Lentils, green lentils, coconut, oatmeal, black beans, provalone, a HUGE bag of garbanzo beans (we love hummas), and some extra virgin coconut oil for sunscreen, yes, sunscreen!

Sourdough starter!

I LOVE my sourdough starter! And I also love this cute jump cocoa mug I found to keep it in ;-)
I tried to make a sourdough starter about a year and a half ago, but failed. Then I found some really great videos that showed me what I was doing wrong! Here is a video I followed to grow my starter. My current starter is organic, and was started about 2 months ago.

Some favorites!

I am in LOVE with my sour dough starter!!! A friend shared this recipe with me, and it is the bomb! Really, hands down, the BEST waffles ever!

SOURDOUGH WAFFLES
1/2 CUP SOURDOUGH STARTER
2 CUPS WATER
2 CUPS FLOUR
MIX TOGETHER AND LET SIT OUT OVER NIGHT

THE NEXT MORNING ADD:
2 EGGS
4 TABLESPOON SUGAR
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 TEASPOON BAKING SODA MIXED IN 2 TABLE SPOON WATER
1/2 CUP OIL
MIX ALL TOGETHER AND COOK IN WAFFLE IRON

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Homemade donuts! I used mini bundt pans to make THESE. The older kids loved them. I gotta say they are awesome warm! But also good the next morning :-)


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The hubbys favorite cookies are oatmeal cookies. THESE turned out nice and soft, I had a hard time stopping myself from eating them all!



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Some cutie apple pies made in the mini bundt pans :-)