Green Smoothie

So, in case you haven't heard of this yet, a green smoothie has fresh spinach in it and whatever fruits you like.

9 1/2 Years

It's funny how you can still surprise your spouse after 9 1/2 years of marriage. You pull something out that he never knew or saw you do before, something totally ordinary, and you Wow! him.

How did I Wow! my husband? With scrambled eggs. What? I said it was "ordinary".

I made scrambled eggs...fluffy, not dry, not wet, perfect in every way, as if Mary Poppins herself were standing over the skillet in my kitchen. This is a skill I have because I am my mother's daughter.

He was in awe, partly because they were awesome and partly because I never made him scrambled eggs before.

"What?" I said. "Just because I don't like scrambled eggs doesn't mean I don't know how to make them."

He said I should make them all the time. I so love flattery, but I also love fried eggs.

Breakfast Made Easy

This is the menu:

Sunday: Cracked Wheat & Fruit

Monday: Oatmeal & Smoothie

Tuesday: Egg & Breakfast Meat & Veggies

Wednesday: Oatmeal & Fruit

Thursday: Egg & Veggies

Friday: Oatmeal & Fruit

Saturday: Pancake Day (hubby has requested that we add breakfast meat & veggies to pancake day, so we'll be incorporating that).

The menu makes mornings so easy, ups the amount of whole grains and veggies we eat, and gives the children one day a week to choose what we eat (on pancake day they choose from crepes, pancakes, German pancakes, waffles, French toast, scones, banana bread, etc. Although we used to call it Children's Choice day and sometimes my son would choose oatmeal; maybe we should go back to that, so they don't associate their choice with something unhealthy all the time.)

Homemade Pasta

We've had homemade pasta three times now, since getting the pasta maker from my sister. First we had regular spaghetti with red sauce, next was stroganoff, and recently we had chicken noodle soup. Mmm, gotta love homemade. Plus it quickly became a daddy/son project. I don't even know the dough recipe, nor have I turned the crank. I love to see my guys cooking together.

Culinary Experiment

Inspired by friends who make vegetable pates and add them to their food for extra nutrition, we added last night's leftover yam to this morning's pancakes. We didn't get the texture just right, but the flavor was good. It's a whole new world of veggie use for us. We'll see what else we do with pates.

"Moofie. I love it."

Everybody loves it when Daddy makes smoothies. He uses frozen fruit and yogurt.