Where you are always allowed to play with your food!
Farmers Market Finds! First one of the season, so I am pretty excited. 
Beet, radish, and rainbow chard saute. Yum! Fresh and healthy.
Fresh Greens! Love all the leafy tops. I like to make them in to a salad or mix in to an omelette. 
Sweet Katie kept writing me mother’s day messages and made me take pictures. ❤
Snuggling with my girls =)
Monday was Katie’s birthday. Can’t believe she is getting so big!
Hey friends! It is almost spring break!!!! Here are a few pics from this past week…
Brutus begging for Bugels
Chess playing captured on camera.
Pasta Prinevera- A Blue Apron meal- Mushrooms, Spinach, Asparagus, Fettichini, Greek Yogurt, Parm Cheese. YUM!!!!
Foul play before the official Easter basket pic could be taken. Lots of chocolate, jelly beans, and cute toys.
Rainbow Eggs! The girls and I decorated eggs and got creative this year. I think we will be doing this more than once a year.
Hubby took Becca to her cheer party, so Katie and I decided to have breakfast for dinner. Sunny side up eggs and a blueberry bagel with cream cheese. Perfection!
The rest of the weekly meal plan looks like this…
Tuesday- Chicken Dish
Wednesday- Who knows what is leftover in the fridge?
Thursday- Fend for yourselves. (Space Camp field trip, so the family is on their own!)
Friday- Mexican per Katie. Margaritas per Mommy.
Time for bed! Sweet dreams!
Happy Sunday morning, ya’ll! I have been promising Becca I would make her blueberry pancakes all week. I had to hold true to my promise when she came in to wake me up at 8:45 and asked if I was going to get up soon and make some blueberry pancakes. My kids have always been good about sleeping late and letting us sleep late on the weekends. Some weekdays they will even go downstairs and pour their own bowl of cereal. It is a beautiful thing when they are finally able to do that, so on occasion, usually one weekend day, I try to whip up a super yummy breakfast. Today it was pancakes, bacon and scrambled eggs. This recipe is super easy and next time I am going to double the recipe and make some pancakes to freeze for breakfast during the week.
Silver Dollar Pancakes
Ingredients
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups milk
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
3 tablespoons veg.oil
fresh blueberries (optional- I used on half the pancakes and half I left plain)
Directions
In one bowl, beat your eggs and your milk for a few minutes until they are incorporated and the mixture begins to bubble and foam.
In a separate bowl, add all your dry ingredients- flour, salt, baking powder, and sugar.Whisk together.
Stir your dry mixture in to your milk and eggs mixture. Lumpy batter is fine. Add in your oil and stir.
If you want all pancakes to have blueberries, you can fold them in the end gently. Or, if you have some people who want plain, or other add-ins (other fruits, chocolate chips, etc.), you can add them to each pancake individually after you pour in your batter.
I cooked mine in my cast iron skillet, but you could use a cast iron grill pan or griddle if you have one. I melted some butter on med heat. I cooked 3 pancakes at a time. When you start to see them bubble on top, they are ready to turn. Nice and golden on each side, light and fluffy, and a nice sweetness to them.
Skip the spray and butter! Instead use a good layer of olive oil in the bottom of your pan to fry up some yummy eggs. Cook to your liking. I love mine sunny side up!
Serve with some toast to soak up all that yummy yolk. For the kids, cut up the toast in strips. We call them dipping strips or soldiers. Fun and delicious!
So remember last night when I made that awesome slow braised chili beef? Yeah, well, we actually ate it tonight! It was so good, but I knew the girls would not eat it. I didn’t even make them try it. It was too spicy and smoky for them, so I made them this back-up meal. We all went to the farmer’s market today and picked out some yummy veggies. I sauteed some yellow squash, green zucchini, and mushrooms. I cooked a chicken breast and thigh in a cast iron skillet. When they were done, I shredded the chicken. The girls recently picked out some wagon wheel pasta, so I cooked that and added some jarred alfredo sauce (Newman’s Own). I added all the ingredients together and topped with parmesan cheese. The girls gobbled it up. So glad they love their veggies! You could totally make this vegetarian by omitting the chicken. Or you could even add shrimp or sliced sausage.
Fun Foodie Family 