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French Toast

Apr 3rd, 2012
by erin.
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French Toast

Date: 3/28/2012

Recipe: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/french_toast/

Modifications: I added a splash of vanilla to the mixture, didn’t use triple sec or orange zest.

Time to table: 20 minutes

Servings: 4 adults

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: Love

Notes: We are coming around more and more to breakfast for dinner – mainly because it’s guaranteed to be well liked by Annie and is usually really easy. This is an excellent basic french toast recipe – I’ve never actually made french toast in my life, so it was high time I start! Unsurprisingly, we all LOVED this. I used french bread, and served with sausage and strawberries. You know something is good if Annie will even eat some of it when strawberries are an option.

Pineapple Chicken Salad

Jun 9th, 2011
by erin.
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Pineapple Chicken Salad

Date: June 6, 2011

Recipe: http://annies-eats.com/2008/08/06/pineapple-chicken-salad/

Modifications: Used some chopped fresh pineapple instead of a can. Shredded the carrots instead of cutting into matchsticks. We used leftovers from the beer butt chicken for this.

Time to table: 15 minutes

Servings: 6 adult sandwiches

Ben: Like

Erin: Love

Annie: Hard to say, since she had an epic meltdown over her inability to properly use a fork that colored the entire dinner experience.

Notes:  I have made this before, for Mindy’s baby shower – this is an awesome food for summer entertaining. This is a really REALLY good chicken salad – probably my favorite that I have ever had. I love that you don’t even really need a side dish with it – veggies, protein, dairy and carb are all in there. Yum!

Just so we remember – Annie was already cranky (wanted to be held while we were making dinner, just overall in a pissy mood) so when I gave her a bowl of the chicken salad and a fork she just started bawling after getting one successful bite in. I tried taking the fork away – but that was clearly not what she wanted. Major tears. I tried helping her eat. Not happening. She wanted some bites of my whole sandwich, which she liked. I gave her the entire sandwich, and then it fell apart. It was as if the world had ended. Ben and I TRIED to hold in our laughter but eventually we just gave in and laughed so hard we cried. Annie had stopped crying by this point and was happily eating the bread and a whole raw spinach leaf, so she even smiled a bit through her snot and tear stained face. She then tried to push the chicken salad over the edge of her high chair tray, while staring us right in the face as we said no – so I offered my hand and she instead focused on filling it up with the chicken salad. Skips the step of me picking it up off the floor! It was an interesting dinner, to say the least.
Putting the chicken salad in mom's hand

Spinach and Fruit Smoothie

May 3rd, 2011
by ben.
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Smoothie time by erin.kkr
Smoothie time, a photo by erin.kkr on Flickr.

(Testing out posting directly from flickr – posted by Erin)

Recipe:
This is more of an idea than a recipe. The main components are yogurt, fruit, and spinach. Banana seems to mask the spinach best of all, so that’s always included in our smoothies.

2 bananas
1.5 cups frozen fruit (strawberries, mango, blueberries, etc – the pictured smoothie had mango)
1 cup yogurt (typically we use full fat plain greek yogurt)
1/2 cup of water/milk/half and half/apple juice – we use water
2 Tablespoons ground flaxseed
2 large handfuls baby spinach

Place all ingredients in a blending device. An immersion blender works particularly well for this. It works best to blend in spinach a little at a time.

Time to table: 5 minutes

Modifications: Again, this is not a recipe and can be modified to suit your individual tastes.

Servings: 2 adult smoothies (tall glasses) and one toddler smoothie pictured above.

Ben: Love

Erin: Love

Annie: LOVE

Notes: As you can see, Annie sucked this down like it was candy. She is normally pretty good about eating vegetables and will for sure eat fruit, but this is a GREAT way to get your kid to eat more vegetables. I’ve heard of people adding carrot and other veggies too. I’m not a huge proponent of “hiding” veggies, but hey, whatever works. A bonus of these smoothies is that I can start my day off with this and then eat like crap the rest of the day and still feel like I got a good start.