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Welcome to my blog…Mom, There’s nothing to eat! I hope this blog will become a reference for all you mothers out there that just can’t seem to keep your kids fed. I will include recipes…the good, the bad and the ugly… tips on feeding the hungry masses, and of course, funny stories about my kitchen…and there are a lot of those!!!
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Recent Posts
May 16
Apfelkuchen-Super Fast and Super Yummy!!! My son is taking German and his class was having a food day, where everyone brings in an authentic German dish. So guess what he volunteered to bring? Go ahead…take a wild guess what he thought his lovi (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, apfelkucken, apple cake, bake, egg, Epicurious, flour, food, German, recipe
May 16
Tortellini Pasta Salad So, my daughter made dinner the other night, and it was DELISH!!! Cheese tortellini and homemade roasted-tomato red sauce with garlic bread! All together now…YUMMY!!!! My son had already eaten and the hubs was out of town (read full article)
basil, cheese, Dinner, food, garlic, italian, Italian food, leftover recipes, leftovers, Oregano
Apr 21
A picture's worth a 1000 words! If the kids thought there was nothing to eat before, wait until they get a load of this!! Yeah, I’m sick of buying food and watching it rot, so I decided to quit buying food all together. Let’s see what (read full article)
Broccoli, broken, cauliflower, cream cheese, egg, food, Organic, organic beef, parmesan, Refrigerator
Mar 25
Tuna Salad Sandwich I’ve been nursing my daughter back to health from a nasty virus and just haven’t had much time to actually cook or blog. Feeling guilty about abandoning all of you readers? Yeah, maybe! But what can a mother do? We (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, Betty Crocker, food, Organic, recipe, recipe review, Recipes, spinach, tuna, tuna salad
Mar 18
3/4 Cheese, 1/4 Veggie, 1/2 Stuffed Crust... can't get that at Dominos It was pizza night, but I didn’t feel like Domino’s Pizza…well, actually I was being cheap and didn’t really want to spend $30 bucks. You see, I wante (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, bake, Betty Crocker, cheese, Dinner, flour, food, Food Network Magazine, garlic, italian
Mar 11
Can't you just smell that garlic? Yum!! I bought three garlic bulbs the other day…or maybe week… thinking that I would take the time to painstakingly peel and mince each clove and store them for all my future recipes. BUT…that (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, bake, Betty Crocker, bread, garlic, garlic bulbs, Garlic Cloves, Olive Oil, Recipes
Mar 10
Cheesy Spinach Artichoke Dip I need to take a dish to a gathering… what to take? Maybe my old standby chips & salsa? Eeehhh, I’m kind of tired of that! Something easy like a veggie tray? Too blah! A bottle of wine and some cheese? Co (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, artichoke, artichoke hearts, artichokes, bake, Betty Crocker, blue corn chips, cheese, chips and salsa, cream cheese
Mar 08
OK, I love doing the Betty Challenge, but it’s making me F-A-T!!! Well, maybe not fat, but I’m gaining weight and I DON’T LIKE it! So… we are going to work on making the Betty Recipes a little more healthy and less fattening! (read full article)
Betty Crocker
Mar 07
I was going through my pantry…cue the dramatic…dum, dum, duuuuuuuummmmm… and I happened upon a couple boxes of lemon pudding that were quickly approaching their “Best If Used By” date. And since I’m into the gr (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, bake, bing, cookie, cookies, Epicurious, food, lemon, lemon cookies, lemon pudding
Mar 06
Pad Thai With Scallops I LOVE LOVE Thai food, but no one in my family likes it… or, rather, has ever tried it. So… I thought I’d secretly make it for dinner and just see how they’d react. I know…I’m pure EVILR (read full article)
Betty Crocker, cilantro, Dinner, egg, fish sauce, food, Organic, pad thai, recipe, recipe review
Mar 05
Unroasted Rosemary-No Onion Potatoes Conner was making Oven-Fried Chicken for dinner and we needed something to go with it…or for those of us that don’t eat chicken… just something/anything to eat. So I went to the pantry…du (read full article)
"What's in your pantry?" Challenge, Betty Crocker, Dinner, food, Olive Oil, Organic, potatoes, recipe, recipe review, Recipes
Mar 03
Conner's Chicken with Rosemary Potatoes and Clover Leaf Rolls Conner’s turn to cook…and no Mexican food! That’s right I pulled rank!!! I am so tired of Mexican food between Moe’s Monday and Conner’s Burritos, I’ (read full article)
Betty Crocker, Chicken, Dinner, food, Organic, oven-fried, recipe, recipe review, Recipes, red potatoes
Feb 28
Apple Crisp with Vanilla Ice Cream...ooooh yeah! I needed something quick & easy, not to mention light to make for dessert after Betty’s mega fattening Fettuccine Alfredo dinner. So… I thought fruit is light and sweet…let’ (read full article)
apple crisp, apple peeler corer slicer, apples, bake, Betty Crocker, Breakfast, clicer, corer, Cranberry, Dessert
Feb 24
Fettucini Alfredo & Breadsticks To accompany the Fettuccine Alfredo dinner, I decided to try to make my own bread sticks. The vision was to open the oven door to a pan full of Olive Garden-like buttery bread sticks. Betty uses the Focaccia recip (read full article)
Betty Crocker, bread sticks, breadsticks, cheese, Dinner, food, italian, Italian food, olive garden, Olive Garden breadsticks
Feb 24
Fettucine Alfredo & Bread Sticks I wanted to make a nice family dinner for us before my husband left for another week on the road, so I went hunting through “the cookbook” searching for that perfect dinner. What resulted was a list (read full article)
Alfredo, Betty Crocker, cheese, Dinner, fettuccine, fettuccine alfredo, food, italian, Italian food, parmesan
Feb 22
Breakfast of Champions! It’s Sunday morning and my sinus infection is on its way out (YAY!!) or at least I thought it was (oh, then maybe just yay.) My husband is home from his business trip (YAY!), but getting ready to leave again bright and (read full article)
bacon, Betty Crocker, Breakfast, egg, eggs, food, Meatatarian, Organic, potato egg scramble, potatoes
Feb 19
Jambalaya...My Way! In honor of Mardi Gras, I went searching for a recipe for jambalaya. No problem, right? Surely, there are plenty of recipes for jambalaya… but… not a jambalaya for my family. No meat…no tomatoes…really hard (read full article)
Betty Crocker, Cajun, Dinner, Fat Tuesday, food, jambalaya, kidney beans, Mardi Gras, Meatatarian, Organic
Feb 19
Vegetable Broth I needed a vegetable broth for the Quick Jambalaya that I made for Fat Tuesday dinner. I didn’t have any canned and I didn’t want to run out and get some, (cause I was sittin’ on the couch eatin’ bonbons) so I (read full article)
Betty Crocker, Broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, Dinner, food, garlic, onion, Organic
Feb 17
Banana Bread I bought bananas at the store last weekend and because I had such a wide variety of fruit and veggies from the farmers’ market, we just didn’t get to them. Poor neglected little nanas are turning brown, which is bad news in (read full article)
bake, banana, banana bread, Betty Crocker, Breakfast, cake, flour, food, low-fat, Organic
Feb 16
Pleasant Surprise Cheese Ball I had a house full of kids last night and I needed something for them to snack on while the boxed (SHHHH) mac-n-cheese cooked. So, I looked at the next recipe in the Betty Challenge. It was a cheese ball. Hmm, do kids li (read full article)
Betty Crocker, blue cheese, cheese, cheese ball, cream cheese, onion, parsley, Recipes, Vegetarian, Worcestershire sauce