Breakfast

Fresh eggs over swiss chard

April 9, 2012
eggs and swiss chard recipe

I hope you had a great weekend!  Our Easter celebration started on Saturday afternoon when we headed to church.  After the 4:30 service, there was a massive egg hunt.  They split the age groups into 4 and under and 5 and up.  Leila was ready to go, bag in hand, eyes on the prize…and then [...]

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Frittata with kale and purple potatoes

March 26, 2012
frittata with purple potatoes and kale

I think Sunday night has unofficially become Frittata Night at our house.  We always have a pile of veggies from our Bountiful Basket or recent farmer’s market visit to use, and it makes for an easy meal that everyone enjoys.  This week’s version included purple potatoes, kale, onion and Applegate bacon. We ate most of [...]

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Maple Pecan Coconut Quinoa Breakfast

March 19, 2012
maple pecan coconut quinoa breakfast cereal gluten free

Have you noticed that I’m on a bit of a coconut kick lately?  I’m cooking just about everything in either coconut oil or coconut milk.  I can’t help myself. This recipe is no different.  I made a hot gluten-free breakfast cereal out of tri-colored quinoa and coconut milk, added maple syrup and topped it with [...]

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Healthy Chocolate Shake

February 20, 2012
Healthy Chocolate Shake from InspiredRD.com #glutenfree #dairyfree

Welcome to this month’s Recipe ReDux!  When I found out that our theme is chocolate, I was pretty stumped.  I’m not much of a baker, so chocolate chip cookies were out.  A healthy recipe using chocolate?  Hmm….. Inspiration hit me last week when a friend mentioned that she thought of me while sipping a smoothie [...]

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Banana Berry Green Smoothie

January 20, 2012
green smoothie

It’s Recipe Redux time once again!  I missed last month because of poor planning the holidays and traveling.  I’m excited to be back this month for the “fresh starts” theme! One of our fresh starts began with finally spending money on a good blender.  We have been experimenting with all kinds of smoothie combinations using fresh and [...]

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The Kids Cook Monday: Making Homemade Granola

December 12, 2011
simple homemade gluten free granola recipe

With the holidays comes extra time in the kitchen cooking with the kiddos.  Whether it’s baking up a batch of Christmas cookies or throwing together a quick dinner, they cold weather makes them more likely to gather in the kitchen and want to lend a hand. This week, we tried out our first batch of [...]

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Blackberry Banana Swirl

July 21, 2011

It’s Recipe Redux time again!  Last month the challenge was grilling.  This month we are sharing summer drink recipes. To be honest, I had a hard time coming up with a summer drink idea.  That’s probably because I tend to drink water, water, and more water in the summer.  I don’t get very fancy with [...]

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The Kids Cook Monday – Father’s Day Breakfast

June 20, 2011

I hope you all had a wonderful Father’s Day!  The kids and I started off our celebration by letting Daddy sleep in and making him eggs in a frame for breakfast.   Lately, every time I start to cook something, these kids are pulling up a chair asking to help.  I love it every time [...]

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The Kids Cook Monday – fANNEtastic granola bars

June 6, 2011

Last week, Anne from fANNEtastic food posted a recipe for Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Granola Bars.  I saw them and immediately knew that Joe and I should get busy whipping up a batch.   As we gathered the ingredients, Joe had to give them each a taste to make sure they were ok.  He decided that [...]

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The Kids Cook Monday and a new recipe – Breakfast Cookies #2

May 3, 2011

Yes I know it’s Tuesday, but this week we actually did our actual cooking on Monday.  I hope you were in the kitchen with your kids yesterday too!   You might recognize the cookies above as Breakfast Cookies.  Joe has been asking to make them again for a while, and I kept forgetting to get [...]

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