What I'm Cooking
Bean* dip and tortilla chips. This is one of my go-to 20-minutes-or-less meals for days when I've forgotten to thaw something or just want something easy. The beans take a bit of work up front, but it's so nice to have jars of re-fried beans on hand for quick meals!
Blueberry muffins. Not my favorite recipe, but they were easy, and I had just a little bit of orange juice that needed to be used up.
Indian Butter Chicken. I do this as a crockpot freezer meal, so I just had to pull a bag out of the freezer the night before, dump it in the crockpot with some milk, and breathe in the delicious Indian aroma all day! Served over brown basmati rice (cooked with turmeric) and peas.
What I'm Reading
True Beauty by Carolyn Mahaney. A dear friend of mine is leading a Bible study for our church's junior high girls using this book, and she was sweet to invite me to join in. Given the four babies I've had in the past 6 years, I haven't been involved with my husband's youth ministry in any notable form since approximately 2009. I'm glad to have some flexibility right now to participate in things like this.
Weekly Snapshots
My aunt sent another box of random activity supplies, including a set of pattern blocks that is sort of half-Lego. They pop into little plastic mats, and there are a number of pattern cards to follow. Levi and Owen worked at their cards diligently for almost an hour! (Not that it should have taken them an hour to complete their cards, but there was a lot of discovery, arguing over who had too many yellow pieces, things like that as well.)
Bean* dip and tortilla chips. This is one of my go-to 20-minutes-or-less meals for days when I've forgotten to thaw something or just want something easy. The beans take a bit of work up front, but it's so nice to have jars of re-fried beans on hand for quick meals!
Blueberry muffins. Not my favorite recipe, but they were easy, and I had just a little bit of orange juice that needed to be used up.
Indian Butter Chicken. I do this as a crockpot freezer meal, so I just had to pull a bag out of the freezer the night before, dump it in the crockpot with some milk, and breathe in the delicious Indian aroma all day! Served over brown basmati rice (cooked with turmeric) and peas.
What I'm Reading
True Beauty by Carolyn Mahaney. A dear friend of mine is leading a Bible study for our church's junior high girls using this book, and she was sweet to invite me to join in. Given the four babies I've had in the past 6 years, I haven't been involved with my husband's youth ministry in any notable form since approximately 2009. I'm glad to have some flexibility right now to participate in things like this.
Weekly Snapshots
My aunt sent another box of random activity supplies, including a set of pattern blocks that is sort of half-Lego. They pop into little plastic mats, and there are a number of pattern cards to follow. Levi and Owen worked at their cards diligently for almost an hour! (Not that it should have taken them an hour to complete their cards, but there was a lot of discovery, arguing over who had too many yellow pieces, things like that as well.)
Favorite blog post: How We Do Family Devotions with a Toddler. We read a verse or two from Proverbs and sing a hymn or two every night after dinner (the "or two" depending on how agreeable Silas is being). I'm not necessarily convinced we need to be doing much more, but this post seemed at least somewhat do-able and encouraging, when we decide it's time to expand a bit.
*The beans:
1. Soak and cook pinto beans according to these directions.
2. Re-fry according to these directions. (I use bacon grease instead of lard, and sometimes saute onions in the grease first.) Let cool and freeze in pint jars (or whatever).
3. Layer with salsa and cheese according to these directions. I prefer to mix some of the cheese in with the beans and salsa so that it doesn't from such a thick layer on top. We like Mission tortilla chips.
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