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 :-)

GONE ORGANIC!!!

I have wanted to go organic for a long time, and we finally made the plunge! We are now almost completely organic! This involved giving ALOT of food to a food bank, which did not thrill the kids. But, After watching The Future of Food, I knew it was time to start feeding my kids real, healthy, clean food.

This is the BEST sourdough bread recipe Ive found so far, we LOVE it! And we had it today with hummas.

A few of the latest...

Dinner last Thursday night. Cabbage Rolls, Meatloaf, and Rice with mushroom gravy. Gravy wasnt loved.

Berry crisp. Kids werent crazy about it, but it was very pretty!

This is a popover, baked in a mini bunt pan. With a hint of powdered sugar and a scoop of amazing Breyers Caramel Praline Crunch Real Ice Cream! Yummo!