The other day I had to change our menu because we changed our plans for the week. I had gone through our pantry and noticed we had a lot of spaghetti noodles. So instead of barbecue chicken legs, I decided to have spaghetti.
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This post was originally posted in February 2011. There was no photograph of the dish so I remedied that when we ate the meal last night.
The Wee One decided to help me make the dish. I’m so happy that he is willing to help with the cooking of dinner. I helped him with getting the popcorn chicken out of the oven and the temperature and time on the oven. He helped with the majority of the rest of the dinner. The Wee One was so proud of himself once the dinner was finished cooking. He wanted everyone to try his rice.
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My boys and I love a tall glass of lemonade. My favorite lemonades are from Chick-Fil-A and Wendy’s. When I order a lemonade from my Wendy’s I usually order the strawberry lemonade. This is at home version of the strawberry lemonade from Wendy’s. Continue reading “Quick Strawberry Lemonade”
So Tuesday was the third and final day of Skinnies. My room was tore up because it was the second to last day of school. I got it together enough for the group of students to have a place to eat.
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Last weekend I found a blog that gave the exact portions to make a one pot pasta dish. I decided to attempt to use the guidelines to make my own dish.
I’ve been loving sundried tomatoes lately. So it was only logical that I used sundried tomatoes in this recipe. Yum!
This dish would be good topped with Kalamata olives. Or your favorite type of olive. The rest of the family does not like olives so I didn’t top it with olives
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The blog I found out the correct portions for one dish pasta dishes. Recipe Rebel
Happy eating,
Traci
Hubby and I love the baked apples at Frisch’s Big Boy. When we go to eat there, we usually will order the apples as one of our side dishes.
I also like fried apples. However I don’t usually have fried apples properly so this is an easy alternative.
You need to use a good cooking apple when making the “baked” apple. When I made it, I used jonagold apples which was a good apple to use for this recipe.
When I made these apples, I first cored the apples and then peeled the apple. (It really doesn’t matter which order you do it in.) Then I cut the apple in half and then each half into fourths. So I ended up with 8 slices per apple.
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I ended up adding more cinnamon to my apples. I love lots of cinnamon.
Happy eating,
Traci
One of my favorite treats at Walt Disney World is Dole Whip. Actually it’s one of many favorite treats at Walt Disney World.
I didn’t find the exact recipe for Dole Whip but I found one that was close enough to satisfy the craving for Dole Whip. There is a place 20 minutes from my house that sells Dole Whip so when I have the real urge to have some, I’ll go there and pretend I’m at WDW.
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Instead of ordering Chinese food from our local restaurant, I decided to make us homemade Chinese food. Whenever I do, Hubby tells me it’s better than the mall’s food court Chinese food. He loves to go get lunch there on occasion.
It’s super easy to put together. The flavor is phenomenal! Hubby and the Wee One really enjoyed the dish. In fact, in the middle of dinner, the Wee One announced dinner was “yummy.” I’ll take that compliment.
I found frozen ginger cubes at Walmart a few weeks ago. Each cube is worth 1 tsp. of minced ginger. I used the minced ginger in this dish. It made getting dinner on the table so much easier.
I also use the already minced garlic. We get a huge container at Sam’s Club. As I said, it makes getting dinner on the table quicker.
Here’s another tip to help you with dinner: I bought a big bag of frozen chicken tenderloins. The frozen chicken tenderloins were cheaper than buying fresh chicken. On the day I was going to use the chicken, I pulled out the amount of chicken needed for dinner. I then put it into the fridge to thaw out for dinner. Since it was not completely thawed out when I went to use it, it was so much easier to cut.
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Happy eating,
Traci
My favorite smoothie from Tropical Smoothie is the Blimey Limey. I decided to recreate it but there is a lack of recipes for copycat “Blimey Limey” recipes. Eventually I found one recipe so I adapted the recipe a little bit by removing the sweetener. I loved it without the sweetener.
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I have a few St. Patrick’s Day recipes on my blog.
This year I decided I needed to have a few more recipes for St. Patrick’s Day. My boys LOVE marshmallow bars. I decided using Lucky Charms or Froot Loops instead of Rice Krispies would a great alternative.
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