....and body too! I recently found this blog www.aurajoon.blogspot.com and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her! She recently did this post about food and cooking and the way she talked about cooking made me fall in love again. Fall in love with my kitchen,my knives, my dishes, fruits, veggies and seasonings. See, since I have become a single mom cooking for a 4 and 10 year old things get lost along the way. I lost my passion for cooking, for serving a meal. Eating was simply a neccessity and not a passion. I made the grave mistake of assuming their young palettes only want McDonalds and pizza (which don't get me wrong, they do) BUT they've also proven me wrong twice in the last week and a half. Last week I made ground beef tacos and wanted to mix it up a lil, add some healthy to the meal.
Black Beans, shredded cheese and diced tomatoes. NOW, the beans really were for me because I was certain the kids would have no part of beans withOUT the rice....boy was I wrong, wrong, wrong! They LOVED them! The meat was a tad spicy and I didn't have sour cream and my son LOVES 'cheese balls' AKA cottage cheese, so what's a mom in a bind do? Top the taco with cottage cheese - he LOVED it!
I'm also realizing presentation is HUGE (in fact my mom is kinda the one who pointed it out to me in a conversation one day). We all put on the ritz when we have company BUT sometimes forget the crowd of lil people appreciate it just as much if not MORE!
Onto this week. WOW, this week has brought challenges we all face at one time or another....starts with
M and ends with
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M O N E Y. No cash because sometimes in life things don't come through....SO, I was determined to make the best of it and not be discouraged when Maya opened the fridge and said "we're poor, we have no food". NOW, I want y'all to know I don't write this for pity or sympathy BUT to show you that the phrase "neccesity is the mother of invention" is SO TRUE!p.s., we did have some food just NOT WHAT THEY ARE USED TO SEEING when they open the fridge.SO Monday we had homemade chicken noodle soup...I had celery, carrots, chicken broth and a hodge podge of noodles on hand...BUT NO CHICKEN...so we were going to go without. Until I said to myself, self, let's try something....I had Buffalo Style chicken breasts in the freezer (ya know with hot sauce) and KNOW the kids would NEVER touch them with a 10 foot pole BUT maybe, just maybe in the soup broth they wouldn't notice, the spice would be taken down a notch and we wouldn't have poor chickenless chicken noodle soup! I had some small baguette slices left over that I added some olive oil and salt n pepper to and toasted and VIOLA! Buffalo Style Chicken Noodle Soup with Salt n Pepper Bageutte slices....
"The BEST Chicken Noodle Soup EVER" said the kids
Tuesday...what to make....we have left over Italian Sausage, Shredded Cheese and I'm sure I have a package of pizza dough somewhere....
SO we made a pizza with our left overs AND some breadsticks! Simply prepare your dough according to the package directions, spread onto a greased pan and I like to top my dough with Olive oil, a few pats of butter, salt, garlic powder and Parmesan Cheese that I 'schmear' as Mickey would say all over the dough....bake til golden brown. Cut with Kitchen scissors, heat up some sauce and there ya have it!
So ladies, when life hands ya lemons, don't frown and make a sour face, turn that frown upside down and make LEMONADE!!
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