Good Eats

Okay - we're on a food budget and we're eating better than we have in ages - go figure. Anyway, I guess it's because I'm forced to actually cook with real ingredients instead of the pre-made, from a box, easy-cheesy food I have been relying on. No more fast food on the way home, no more (okay a lot less) convience food from the freezer.

Tonight we had Lakin's famous (well to some and especially to me) broccoli-cheese soup. He works so hard on it, spending time carefully chopping up the stems so that we are not chomping down on tough and stringy broccoli but still getting the flavor and nutrients from the stems. Last night I made french toast (from my homemade bread) with fried apples. Earlier in the week we had venison chili (oh my gracious thank you Carol for the venison.) I even have a beef stew planned for the crock pot on Sunday. So while I'm in mourning for Chef Wangs and Demo's and Outback and yes even Sonic I am rather enjoying the fruits of my kitchen again.

My poor little Savannah is going into culture shock from it though, she thinks that she should live on frozen pizzas, cherry icees and chicken tenders (I've been such a bad mommy.) So we're doing baby steps - tonight she had a pizza I made from a hot dog bun with sliced american, speghetti sauce and slice provolone. Lakin was so good, he kept telling her how lucky she was that she had a mommy who loved her enough to cook a "special pizza" just for her.

I also had some root beer syrup and so I made homemade root beer icees tonight with my

immersion blender (thank you Mama and Daddy - I love it!) Now if I can just transition her into eating soups it would be great because we seem to be cooking a lot of them lately (the hand blender helps with that as well). Christopher is liking them though so that's a blessing.