I am so excited to tell you I added a photography tab to the site!
My husband does majority of my food photography, but his absolute favorite type of photography is landscapes. He can capture the most beautiful Louisiana sunset, and I'm thrilled to share it with you!
So at this time there is only a gallery, but I will set it up soon to order prints of your favorite pictures, so stay tuned!
New recipe posted, y'all!
My dad is staying with us until he recovers from his surgery. He loves étouffée, so I decided to make this for him the other day. It is a Gulf Coast gem. It makes enough to feed 6-8 people a large bowl.
Crawfish Étouffée
So! I said I'd write a blog post about my new recipe "Chicken Calzones".
See, there is a backstory here. I loved this place in town so much. They had pizzas that were perfect. All sorts of calzones that were exciting to try. Salads with yummy dressings and toppings, and the perfect little sandwiches to put with them.
Well one day we went there for lunch, and when we are done eating all of our food (of course), I noticed that we had a visitor in the booth with us. Right behind me was this little ole' roach. I hurried to get out of the booth because I didn't want the darn thing to crawl on me, that would have just topped it off. Immediately I start gagging because we just ate. You know if you see those things outside of the kitchen, just imagine what's in the kitchen. That's just my opinion!
Now, I can never go back. Never. I don't care if every other place we eat at has them, I have never saw them, and that is what matters, right? We all know that places we eat at are not as clean as our own home. They can only control that to an extent.
This hasn't been all bad though. I've learned a lot of different recipes that I wouldn't have learned how to cook at home.
The Chicken Calzone is my husband's favorite. I will post my favorite, Portobello Panini, soon.
Italian night at home has been created because of this little bitty roach. Maybe there is some good that can come out of those things! HA!
I have a very different schedule than most parents. Obviously, we homeschool and I can do it at night, the mornings like a traditional school, or whenever we want. I always do it early. The earlier the better for my kids and myself honestly. We do our school, lunch (break) then finish up any schooling and head out to practices (homeschool PE, cheerleading, baseball, basketball, you name it- I try to keep them super active!).
We have this thing in our house called 5 o'clock shuffle. Do you have the shuffle in your house? If we aren't running around town, we are home getting dinner ready and doing the whole night time hoo-ha. My kids start losing their mind. Literally. It's like "who the heck are you?" I don't know what happens.
It seems so chaotic and I try to get my kids busy doing something that will allow me to keep my sanity and prepare dinner.
"Mama, I'm hungry"
"Mama, can I have a snack"
"Mama, watch this cartwheel for the 400th time"
"Mama, can I help you cut this"
"Mama, watch me jump"
"Mama, watch me lift my leg"
"Mama......................."
You know this picture, right?
I love to make them go play in their room, but when that doesn't happen I set up their Osmo. They got this from their Grammee this Christmas. We absolutely love this. It's educational and my kids become entranced with it. They are quiet and engaged, it just does so much. The downfall is you obviously already have to have an iPad. But it is quite worth it!
Osmo has many different apps. It teaches them letters along with reading sight words, shapes, math and numbers, art, and coding. There are different kits, and you can choose the best one fitted for your child... Or get them all like we did. They really do like every single one.
So, if ever you need help and don't want to just throw a screen of some sort at them, try the Osmo. Yes, it is still screen time, but it is fun and educational. Rewarding for the whole house.
I've included the links below. Try one out. I think you and your child will be happy with it.
How do you feel about Avocados? Once upon a time I hated them, now I love them! So much so we decided to try to grow a tree from the pit.
This is how it is looking so far. I am so very excited about this and can't wait to plant it.
Today is such a rainy yucky day. I was out and about with my dad and was going to just swing by our favorite Mexician place to grab lunch, but decided to just go home. I think that was a good choice because none of us wanted to get wet again. What fun is that?
Sometimes it's really hard to find motivation to cook every meal every day, am I right? But I came home because I knew I took some meat out the other day and could cook that quickly.
I decided to cut it up and make steak tips. I took some broccoli out of the freezer and roasted it in the oven. Then, I made some instant pot macaroni. Man, I can't tell you how easy it is to cook that mac! I was and am still a bit intimidated by my instant pot. I got it to make yogurt. I was so excited when I saw that thing online, I told my husband that I wanted it because we eat so much yogurt over here. I just knew I'd be making yogurt ALL the dang time. Have I made it? No. ha! Fooled him! Just kidding. Sort of.
I still plan on making that yogurt one day.
Super soon. ;o)
So I made our steak tips in a pan with a little olive oil and butter. Salt and pepper to our liking and cooked to our preference.
What is your preference in how your meat is cooked? Do you like it well done? rare? medium?
Back in the day I liked it well done. I did not want to see pink in my meat! Now.... I like it medium, medium rare. So funny how your taste buds change over time!
I am glad I got the motivation to come home and cook, this ended up being an easy lunch to whip up and the kids made happy plates. Can't ask for much more than that!
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