Sarah's Recipe Blog

Breakfast: Oats, granola and yogurt

No pancakes or waffles this morning. I often make them on Sundays because we don't have church until 11 and I actually have time to cook breakfast. However, Jenny fell out of the new bunk bed that we bought her yesterday and woke us up early. She is fine but we've installed an extra railing thing now so hopefully that won't happen again. We eventually went back to sleep and slept in later than normal.

Lunch: Fix your own. I had leftover mashed potatoes with salad and BBQ sauce on top.
The kids did their own thing and the little boys had sandwiches.

Dinner: Buckwheat and Sweet Mesquite Chicken Bits

sides: Garlic Biscuits (made entirely by Benjamin) and Green Salad (with more green beans and zucchini)

I often don't feel like making anything Sunday for dinner and whip up something really really easy. I like to follow the day of rest thing for religious and worship purposes and also for renewal. I cook for my family because I love them and I'm learning to enjoy it..but I'm human and definitely get burnt out with the kitchen scene day after day. I try to make it mentally manageable by not doing too much every single day and only making bigger or more complicated things when I'm in the mood and it will be a pleasure and not a chore.

Breakfast: Oats and granola (we are out of yogurt)

Lunch: Bean Burritos (emergency lunch today. I was playing my flute with the very talented Josse and after we were done I was so hungry I had to do something fast. So I got a can of refried beans from our 72 hour emergency kit ...we never eat canned foods except in "emergencies", heated them up and piled them up on some whole wheat tortillas)

sides: plums

Dinner: Potato Bar (I had so much fun with this last time that we did it again and invited our friends over who couldn't come last time because of sick children)

Toppings/sides: spring salad mix, corn, green peppers, broccoli, chicken sausage, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, butter, salt, pepper, salsa, BBQ sauce)

Breakfast: oats and granola

Lunch: Turkey Burgers (Joseph's request)

I had green peppers, onions, pickles, organic ketchup, grapeseed oil mayo-which is way lighter tasting and very yummy, BBQ sauce and some kind of dark green leaf from the spring mix I buy at Costco) I also made homemade buns again. I was thankful they turned out soft and perfectly shaped this time...yay!

Dinner: Potato Supreme

I'm not sure exactly what to call it..I took 2 baked potatoes, 1/4 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup cheese, 1/4 cup milk, a couple of chicken sausages minced, and a few broccoli florets minced and created what I thought was a great dinner.  My kids spied it with caution but most of them enjoyed it..I do have some picky eaters that simply have bad attitudes..despite my intolerance of pickiness..they persist.

Breakfast: Oats and granola (I had raisin bran)

Lunch: Kasha (or Buckwheat...but we call it Kasha) Brought out a lot of the toppings we used on the potatoes...corn, sour cream, peppers, salad, etc....

Dinner: French Toast (on homemade bread...I always feel so cool when I do it this way) I added nutmeg to the mix and it had an extra yummy taste.
Scrambled Eggs

sides: fresh berries

Breakfast: oats and granola ( I actually rebelled and had raisin bran again..I can only handle oats so many times a week. Don't get me wrong. I love them....I just need a change sometimes. My kids however like things to be the same and some of them don't like raisin bran...more for me)

Lunch: Cheesy Corn Quesidillas

sides: baby carrots and ...ta da...the first cucumber of the year....wait the second...I ate the first myself one night when we hadn't had any veggies that day and i was craving something.

Dinner: Fruteos cereal (looks like fruit loops...DOES NOT TASTE LIKE IT...but my kids don't know that so they loved it) I had some of the homemade bread I made this afternoon with PB and J since I just can't eat fake fruit loops that just taste blah...most of the healthy versions of stuff really tastes yummy or even better...not this....I bought two boxes of it on sale and I think we'll use the other box to make cereal necklaces....an experience every child should have a least once in awhile.  

Breakfast: Oatmeal (ordered by Joseph...he likes to boss me around...he is often polite about it but he does have opinions)

Lunch: Lentils and Rice

sides: green salad with zucchini and fresh garden cucumbers..yum. The dressing I make for it is so easy and my kids LOVE salad with this dressing. I simply put on about a 1T of veganaise (it's grapeseed oil mayo that is very light and very good for you) and then about 1/4 t of garlic powder. It gives it a ranch dressing type taste for pennies and my kids adore it.  They also LOVED the cucumbers. I picked two for the salad and ended up with half of one. They were begging me to cut up more....and I love that.

Dinner: Blini..okay...here is a Russian recipe that I healthified. Blini is the Russian word for crepes. There is a cult in Russia that judges a woman by her blini..the thinner the better..she has to be able to flip them just right...and of course they have to be perfectly round.

I make this recipe in my family sized rectangle electric skillet. The first time I made them Sasha (who usually is pretty oblivious to what food looks like) laughed and said, "A schto za blini?" Meaning loosely...what in the world did you do to those blini?  Ah...well at least my kids can enjoy the joy of blini without mommy standing over a stove for 2 hours...this version cooks up in about 20 minutes..Yay!

I'll post the recipe later..gotta go read stories to my kids.  

Breakfast: Oatmeal and berries

Lunch: Lentil Casserole (yummy..I finished off the lentils and rice in a delicious casserole....I put in corn tortillas, tomato sauce seasoned with cumin and garlic powder, corn, cheese and of course the leftover lentils and rice) I layered it like lasagna and put it in the oven for 40 minutes...oh..I forgot I also added some sour cream..finished off the container that I'd bought for the baked potato bar.

sides: baby carrots

Dinner: Homemade chicken sausage and cheese pizza (every time I go to Costco I have to buy the chicken sausage and every time I buy it I have to make pizza....so here we go again)

sides: Big fat green salad...I'm starting to crave these which is good for me because I'm not really a salad eater....with garden cucumbers...yum.

Dessert: Cinnamon Rolls (homemade...made the dough along with the pizza dough..I used to dread baking things like cinnamon rolls or any yeast based bread because I never felt like it came out quite right...I love my Bosch...I've been baking happily ever since I got it)