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19 January 2010

More healthy recipes my family will eat

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I have 4 more healthy recipes that I made recently that my family approves. I’ve got many more that I made that they weren’t so crazy about. These are the good ones.
Turkey Burgers from heaven

Ingredients

1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and diced
1/8 cup canola [...]

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6 January 2010

Healthy, family-approved recipes o’ the week

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In an effort to be healthier, I’ve been cooking more of our meals by trying out some new recipes and resurrecting some old ones as well. Some haven’t worked but most have gone over very well with the fam. Here are the favorites of each person this week.
Blake’s pick: Chicken Fajitas

I’ve been making these for [...]

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13 December 2009

Weekly video wrap up for 12/13

In this week’s video, I make a microwaveable coffee cup cake while discussing this week’s blog posts as well as the Urban Dare Andy and I ran this week.

5-MINUTE CHOCOLATE COFFEE-CUP CAKE
Use a bowl or a large coffee cup for the recipe below.
• ¼ cup flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 egg
• 3 [...]

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9 September 2009

Tomatoless Salsa from God

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When Payton came home from their road trip this summer and declared that I just HAD to make Aunt Liz’s salsa even though it contained cilantro, I knew I had to give it a try. Payton hates cilantro but somehow she thought it was worth it in this recipe. She was right.

WeAndy usually makes pico [...]

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19 January 2009

Because I’m excited about the inauguration

I decided to make our dinner of party foods while watching a documentary about Barack Obama. Tried a couple of new things while having some things we know we love.

Recipes:
Fondue QuesoMelted Velveeta with salsa on the stove and transferred to fondue pot
Li’l Smokies and Hot DogsPut smokies and cut up hot dogs into slow cooker [...]

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13 November 2008

Bacon-wrapped chicken

One of the benefits of my crazed energy is that I’ve been cooking everyday and making things that take quite a bit longer than a weeknight meal normally would. I made this Bacon-Wrapped Chicken, Chickeny Chicken Rice and corn for our dinner tonight. It was really good but the others in my household [...]

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12 November 2008

Mexican Turkey Burgers

One of the benefits/odd things about stockpiling food is that I often just have a large assortment of things to choose from and so I seek out recipes that will allow me to use some of my 5 pounds of ground turkey, tortillas and corn (that was tonight anyway. Last night was broccoli and [...]

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4 November 2008

Maybe I do like pork

Herbed Pork Roast
Crash Hot Potatoes
Corn
Apple slices
I’ve never really liked pork but letting this pork loin marinate all night in the spices made it so yummy. Love all of the flavors of the foods together. Yummy dinner.

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26 August 2008

Long time, no cook

The lack of recipe posts hasn’t been because I stopped posting them – it was because I stopped cooking. Summer got too busy so we ended up eating a lot of Mr. Goodcents and “fending” – the kids favorite thing to do. However, I’m back to cooking especially as the temps get a bit [...]

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30 June 2008

Weekend in KC – Day 3

Sunday was a bit more laid back. Andy and I got up and ran and the temps being in the 60s plus having 3 tracks/trails near my parents’ house made it fun to do as we ran loops around each one. After a shower, Andy and I headed to get stuff for our [...]

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