You know it’s funny…some of the best recipes I have from my friend Becky are from her either bringing us a treat or dinner, or my kids being fed at her house and coming home and saying, “Mom, you NEED to get that recipe from her! Dinner was so delicious!” She serves by feeding us, then serves again by giving me the recipe! About a week before Valentine’s Day this year her family brought over these most amazing sugar cookies. I’m off sugar right now and have been for months but I crumpled when I saw those chewy cookies with the thick pink butter-cream frosting. Why do treats taste better in pastel colors? They are truly THE BEST sugar cookies ever! Use a royal icing recipe for beautiful decorating like the examples below. Use butter-cream frosting for deliciousness….
School Lunches
Several years ago I told our children that I would make their lunches if they would be willing to eat healthier. They readily agreed. I love, love love the lunch ideas found on the site: 1oo Days of Real Food. …
Chicken Thoughts
Chicken photography by: Rolf Hagberg Photography
Over Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day weekend we were in St. George visiting Grandma and Grandpa Beckwith. We went to eat at a restaurant called Culver’s which serves high quality burgers. Anna ordered chicken tenders (we called them nuggets). She took a couple of bites and then refused to eat them complaining that, “They tasted too much like chicken and that she liked the ones that didn’t taste like chicken.” (ie: the dinosaur shaped ones)
Monday morning we woke up to a big chicken mess in our yard. As of Sunday we only had two chickens left out of our original flock. We have several predators around here that have a hard time passing up a good chicken meal including hawks, racoons, a fox that lives in a thicket on the other side of our fence and cougars (there are occasional sightings in our neighborhood). The chicken who lost it’s life on Monday was beheaded and disemboweled but left on our lawn. Rosie, the remaining chicken came over to investigate. As she was standing there looking over her companion Lizzie looked out and imagining that Rosie was feeling pretty sad said, “I wish chickens understood the Plan of Salvation.” I’m just glad that our children understand it well enough that they can feel hope even in the face of death.
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
I love this recipe any time of the year, but especially in the winter. It is so hearty and warming….
Pecan Maple Breakfast Cookies
Another amazing whole foods recipe from 100 Days of Real Food. We took the challenge about three years ago and I LOVED IT! (The kids were a little more reluctant.) During the months we were eating clean we felt great. …
Zucchini Bread, Whole-Wheat, Sugar-Free
This sweet, dense bread recipe comes from the 100 Days of Real Food website. This was a lifesaver when our family took the 100 day challenge to eat nothing but real food. It is so delicious! You can hardly tell it is sugarless. My kids thought it was the best treat ever. (Along with the Pecan Maple Breakfast cookies, and whole-wheat donuts found on the same site!)…
Happy Loventine’s Day
16 years ago today my sweet husband proposed to me. We hiked to the top of Eagle’s Crag outside of Zion National Park as the sun came up and agreed to spend eternity together. What a good decision that was! I love Valentine’s Day because I get to reflect on that blessed decision and the amazing years since. I love celebrating love. I love that I got to teach our preschool group this week (I’m in a co-op where I share the responsibility to teach with five other mom’s and so I teach once every six weeks), and our topic was “Love and Family” and “Mail and Post Office”. We read the book “The Seven Little Post Men”, made cards for a loved one and took a little field trip to a blue mail box where the children, with great ceremony, dropped their cards in. I love preschoolers because everything is so full of interest for them. That great big blue box was twice their size and more than one child asked what would happen to their letter, and how would the postman get it out?
We started our discussion about Love and Family like this:
Me: Can anyone tell me what holiday we will celebrate this week?
Sweet boy in our group: LOVENTINE’S DAY!
So, to all of you out there whom I love and who have touched my life, Happy Loventine’s Day!
Becky’s Creamy Italian Chicken
My kids absolutely love this. They actually love anything my good friend, Becky makes. This can be served over rice or noodles. I try to use healthy versions of the Italian salad dressing mix and the condensed soup. Both found at our local whole foods store. The substitutions cost more but I have less guilt….
Slow Cooker Lemon Pepper Chicken
All the meat-eaters in my family told me this was amazing! I served this with Au Gratin potatoes and salad. Photo and recipe courtesy of the Recipe Critic…
Viv’s Peanut Chicken (Or Salmon)
This is not a picture of Viv’s recipe but it looks close. Viv (my sister) made this one summer while we were all at Ft. George (family summer home on Pend Oreille lake in Northern Idaho). It looked so good I decided to try making it substituting the chicken for salmon. It was amazing! It is labor intensive, but perfect for a special meal or when you are trying to impress someone….
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