Author: traci

  • A few days ago, Tiffany from Eat at Home posted a recipe for cranberry orange oatmeal cooked in the slow cooker.  I’ve attempted to make oatmeal in the slow cooker, and it did not turn out pretty.  Most of it was wasted. This recipe turned out great because I found a different way to cook…

  • This week’s a strange week.  I’ve only got to cook dinner 3 times this week – Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.  So my method for planning those 3 days is this:  Go to my freezer.  Open it up.  What do I have that I need to eat up or cook up.  So it’s no real plan…

  • My husband loves getting food from Chinese restaurants in our local mall’s food court. So I decided to recreate one of the dishes he might purchase there. This dish was healthier than what you get at the food court. He thought it was a sweet and sour dish when it was cooking in the oven.…

  • Breakfast Lunch: For a snack on my way home, I’ll either have Or That is I’ll eat it if I’m hungry. I also have either a small handful of almonds or chocolate covered raisins between groups of students.

  • I love chocolate chip cookies.  Actually, I like most cookies.  You might say cookies are my weakness!  I mean dessert weakness.  This dip reminds me of a chocolate chip cookie. Best of all, you don’t have to bake cookies to get deliciousness.  :) Now the question is, what should I dip into this yumminess!  I’ve…

  • Mmm!  Comfort food makes you feel good inside.  Pot roast is one of those foods.  As I was coming up with this week’s menu, I decided pot roast should be one of our dinners.  The interesting thing was we had a pot roast for our dinner at my in-law’s last night.  The difference was how…

  • Here are my plans for dinner: Monday – pot roast, butter noodles, and veggies Tuesday – lemon chicken (if the recipe works, I’ll post it here) with rice Wednesday – homemade taco hamburger helper (if the recipe is good, I’ll post it here) Thursday – pot roast hash Friday – pretzel chicken tenders, mac, and…

  • So my family has decided we are going to Walt Disney World at the beginning of April.  Yesterday we hunted for the pictures we took during our last trip to Disney in 2009 when the boys were 3 and 5.  We finally located the majority of the pictures.  There was 1 picture I really wanted…

  • This month we followed a different format.  Instead of being paired up with two people (one who bought and sent to me and the other I bought for and then sent the box), we were paired with one other person.  We bought and sent to each other.   This month, I was paired with Jessica…

  • I’m so proud of myself.  Today we were given a chance to go apple picking at one of our fellow church member’s houses.  We could take as much as we wanted, which is totally cool.  The Imaginative One is a fussy eater but loves his apples and applesauce.  So I jumped at the chance. We…