Archive for the ‘Raising Kids on Read Food’ Category


Spanish Tortilla Recipe

This Spanish Tortilla Recipe could also be titled, “I have used all my food budget for the month and I have no idea what to make” or “Something fast, healthy, easy and that no one will whine about.” Either way it’s good and my husband makes it for me. I have to admit, I have […]

Easy Sweet Potato Soup Recipe

This is another recipe from my head, but it is so simple that even if this recipe is not exact, it will be quite yummy at your house too. This is an Easy Sweet Potato Soup Recipe from me to you! Easy Sweet Potato Soup Recipe Makes one pot, almost full Ingredients: 2 large or […]

Why Thank You, Chickens

Thursday, December 16th, 2010 in About Me, Nature, Raising Kids on Read Food

This past week we got 3-5 eggs every single morning. The kids and I haven’t been able to go out and collect them because my husband is way too excited and runs out to do it himself. Behold…. We had a special breakfast to celebrate. Let me tell you something about these eggs…you don’t add milk…you […]

Raising Kids on Real Food FAIL

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

Well it *WAS* a fabulous idea, but trying new foods doesn’t always work out… At the Farmer’s Market a local farmer told me I should try turning the persimmons into chips. He said they are very, very sweet and kids love them. Just let them ripen for about a week when you buy them fresh […]

Homemade Granola Bars

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking, recipes

We spend a lot of money on granola bars.  Actually, the girls call them “Treat Bars” and love having them for snack time. About once every 6 weeks I drive up to a Whole Foods 45 minutes away to buy a certain kind I like and, boy, if they ever go on sale we stock up! […]

Pizza Sundays

Well when I *USED* to cook…back in the day… Sundays became Pizza Day, which is a bit weird I know.  But my husband really doesn’t like the “classic” Sunday dinners. I love making pizza for dinner guests too.  Before I got sick I tried three new recipes and TWO of them turned out. The one that didn’t […]

Recipe Tuesday…Eh…Maybe Not

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 in About Me, Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

Nope. No cooking going on over here. My day is either filled with spilling my cookies or telling my body NOT to do it. If you could hear my brain thinking for the full day, you would hear things like this: “No.  No.  No.  KEEP IT IN!” or “Think of ice, nice cool ice,” or “BE A […]

Berry Crisp & Berry Picking

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

My sister, Rebecca, asked me if I would like to go berry picking last week. YES! I have a kid that has been addicted to berries since her first taste at the age of one. OBSESSED, I tell you, and the rest of us love berries too.  Plus, I have been so tired and I […]

Rainbow Tostadas

So easy, SO TASTY.  And they look really pretty too! Ingredients: 1 Red Tomato, 1 Orange Tomato and 1 Yellow Tomato, diced 1/2 red onion, minced 1/2 bunch of cilantro, finely minced 3 earns of corn, cooked and kernels cut off 2 avocados, diced 2 mangos, diced 1 can of black beans, rinsed 2 limes […]

Gooseberry Fools (Trifle, Parfait, Whatever)

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

Honestly, I don’t know if I will every buy gooseberries again BUT they were something fun to try.  The whole time I was eating this, I couldn’t help thinking how much BETTER it would have been with a different sort of berry.  Still good to try new things though! The fancy name for this is a […]