Lots of good stuff this week- first time for carrots and sweet potatoes, a purple pepper, broccoli, more apples . . .
Here's some of the stuff that I made from last week's share:
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| Tomato, basil and mozzarella w/ olive oil, salt & pepper |
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| Haven't made one of these in a while- used the lettuce and added gorgonzola cheese, dried cranberries and walnuts, with balsamic vinegar and flax oil. |
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| Omelette with sweet orange peppers and green onions |
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| Green beans w/garlic & bacon tossed in with some chicken, spinach & fontina sausages from TJ's. |
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| This is Gillian McKeith's Shepherdess Pie. I took a picture before covering the rest with mashed sweet potatoes so you could see all the yumminess inside. This is one of my favorite fall dishes of all time! We served it for a dinner with Nellie's friends, along with greens dressed in a homemade vinaigrette. For dessert, Nellie made baked apples with vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce and chopped pecans. It was a truly scrumptious evening. |
In a desperate attempt to get the kids to branch out and eat some different things, I let them pick recipes from Ed's Better Homes and Gardens Junior Cook Book. The recipes in there are not exactly what I'd call healthy, but Eddie really loves that book, and at least it got them to try some new things.
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| This is called Farmhouse Breakfast pizza. It's pizza dough with scrambled eggs, hash browns, cheese, bacon and ham on top. Andrew's side only has cheese, bacon & ham, which he picked off and ate sans crust. Maybe he's on a low-carb diet. |
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| Another dish Ed picked out was stuffed baked potatoes. We used many of the same ingredients from the breakfast pizza for these. I have to say, this was one of my favorites. Mighty delicious and meaty and salty. |
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| Ed also chose Caramely Apple Breakfast Muffins, which he proclaimed to be the best muffins in the whole wide world. Not gluten free, so I couldn't verify his claims. |
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| Andrew chose Monster cookies for one of his recipes. This involves baking chunks of candy in cookie dough. Most of Andrew's recipes involved chocolate of some kind. Don't know where he gets that gene from. ;) |
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| Ed experimented with some hard candies in his and found out that they don't really work too well in Monster Cookies. |
The recipe experiment was a good one, since it got the kids thinking ahead and planning meals. They had to provide me with the shopping list for their recipes, and Andrew found out the hard way that yes, you really do need to include every item on the list, even if you don't understand what it is, or the recipe won't work. I made them do most of the recipe prep and cleanup themselves, too.
Yum!
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