Pudding

Believe it or not I have never done pudding for Molly. I finally made some, with organic soy milk -we are kind of getting away from cows milk and the saturated fat you find in it, honestly I think doing "real" milk is a bit beyond me at this point... maybe sometime down the road I will but right now I still have a hard time thinking about it. Anywho I decided to do a lunch of PB &J  (on homemade whole wheat bread made in my bread maker) she had a little side of strawberries, kabobs of blueberries and cherry tomatoes. I only gave her two tablespoons of pudding, and she ate it right up.

Her hair looks a little frazzled in this pick, and if you look close enough you can see her pudding mustache. I used the pudding to get her to eat all her fruits and veggies, as soon as she finished the first few tablespoons she wanted more, she had to eat some of her fruits and veggies in order to get more. This was a good lunch, at least before I realized her obsession with chips and salsa

Vegetarian Dinner/ Open-faced Fried Egg Sausage Melts

So we tried a few new things tonight in our vegetarian dinner; soy crumbles for sausage, homemade bread from our neighbor, onion/parsley oil, avocado as a side dish, and pink grapefruit for Molly. The bread was fantastic, and really perfect for the dish, thank you Rockelle! As I was making the spinach and grapefruit salad Molly thought I had an orange and wanted a piece and wouldn't take no for an answer. She actually kept coming back for more, it is crazy sometimes what the kids will eat! I have never had the veggie sausage before, it was quite good. Overall I was pleased with the meal, and it was very filling!

Open-faced Fried Egg Sausage Melt

Sliced Wheat Bread (hopefully homemade)

1 cup Soy sausage crumbles

Sliced Cheddar Cheese

Eggs

1 large green onion

2 tbsp fresh Italian parsley

Olive Oil (4 tbsp give or take)

1. Toast bread, chop onion and parsley and mix with oil, preheat oven 400 degrees.

2. Warm sausage, top toasted bread with a little bit of olive oil, then the sausage and a slice of cheese. Place on a cookie sheet and put into the oven until the cheese is melted.

3. Fry eggs (don't forget salt and pepper for taste), once cheese is melted top with egg and a drizzle of onion oil.

P.S. I was told by a lady at the grocery store that the Morning Star soy crumbles (well really just that brand of soy products period) were cheaper at Target than even my cheap grocery store.

Mother's Day

I have mother's radar like no other, if my child is up I know it. If she is crying, I can hear her no matter how hard I try not to. Like this morning my husband got up at 6:20 am, of course after I prodded him awake because he could sleep through a tordnado (when my water broke for instance he went back to sleep three times! THREE TIMES! Before he realized that yes indeed the baby was coming and he needed to get up). He was doing this to allow me to sleep in obviously, which was very difficult for me to do, Molly was a bear this morning. I thought I was getting breakfast in bed, in fact I kept having all these totally weird dreams one of which was that my husband brought me breakfast and I just left it on the side table and fell back asleep. I eventually got up close to 8:00am which for me is SLEEPING IN! My husband made me French Toast, fresh strawberries with honey on them (his own little touch) and some sausage. Now when you see this plate of food I would like to point out that I only ate half of it, it was monstrous, he cut our homemade bread into Texas toast siced slices.

Homemade Bread

First loaf of bread with my breadmaker! This makes me remember when breadmakers were first introduced back in the 90's and I loved it, I swear I was one of the only people in our house that used it. I remember there was many a loaf that were way to dense, more like a brick than anything else but there is nothing like the smell of rising bread, or the smell of baking bread for that matter.

I was reading Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbra Kingsolver and throughout the book they would briefly mention that her husband was the bread maker of the family, and would make their daily loaf. It was never fully talked about, but again briefly mentioned throughout until the very end where Steven Hopp comes forth and mentions that he has been making these daily loafs with, you guessed it, a breadmaker. It was at this point that I could not get over the fact that this whole time they were using a breadmaker; it reminded me of when I had one myself. Oh the nostalgia!

I of course got on the phone with my mom to see if she in fact still had that ol' breadmaker. She unfortunately did not. According to my mother she had just recently given it away to Goodwill. So as a result my number one birthday present request was a breadmaker. This was probably for the better as I am sure the technology has improved since the first attempts. I know it is one more item on the kitchen counter but I think there are ways around it (I am omitting my future IKEA plans to make my kitchen space more user friendly and storage friendly I am sure that will be filled in in the future), and it is .50₵ a loaf people you can't argue with that! I was incredibly excited about getting this breadmaker, a joy that one can only assume others truly will not appreciate or understand, but I am oddly ok with that.

(notice how the bread is nice and airy, lots of holes and bubbles not dense at all, YES!)