About Me
We are Sara, Kyle, Noah, and Eli living in the city. These our are adventures: cooking, playing, creating, laughing, and yes, sometimes, crying. We believe strongly in the "it takes a village" philosophy to not only raise children but to also build a community of people to help each other. Welcome to our little hut in this great big world. "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it." - Danny Kaye
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Friday Fragments
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1. Memorable food this week:
-broccoli mashed potatoes. mash the broccoli into the potatoes. Easy and good.
-French onion dip sandwiches with carrot and broccoli coleslaw. I loved the coleslaw because it wasn’t made with mayo. I’m a mayo hater. It was instead made with olive oil and lemon. Mmm-mmm. The sandwiches were also pretty awesome. I felt like I was eating at a greasy spoon – my own!
-Carmel Coconut Fudge Brownies. While the recipes was docked some stars by others for the tough caarmel, I’m not sure what they were expecting. I’ve never met an unsticky caarmel. These brownies were fudge-y, caramel, and coconut deliciousness. I will definitely make them again.
Caramel Coconut Fudge Brownies
2. I’m running the Houston Half Marathon Sunday morning. Hoping I cross the finish line running. My leg has been bothering me because I over did it at boot-camp last week. I’ve been trying to take it easy on the leg. I also didn’t do the best at training for this marathon. Here’s to the finish line for my 2nd half marathon!
3. I am Wendy this week. Wendy from Bob the Builder that is. And I am sick of the Bob the Builder song, but it keeps Noah happy. I guess I will just continue to randomly sing Bob the Builder. Although every now and then I sing Habib the Builder. I don’t know why, maybe to add a multicultural bent to it.
4. School starts for me next week, and I will be working for free in school libraries. It’s part of my master’s program, lucky me! I haven’t worked for almost 2 years now, I’m hoping getting on a schedule will be a good transition, and it’s only for two months. Keep telling myself I can do it!!!! And then I step into a middle school and remember why I left. Ack!!!
5. Looking forward to Jamaica!!!! Going there for a wedding soon!!! So excited!!!!!!!!!! Off to go purchase our tickets. (And I’m also timing myself on the computer so that I get off and do some practical stuff like clean out the dishwasher. I’ve been slacking this morning.)
6. Sucked into American Idol. How do I let this happen???
Peace!
Distracted
I was doing well keeping up with my recipes. Then, Thursday, I got distracted by by this book:
My first book of 2010 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I tried to read this book a couple of months ago, but could not get into it. I am reading it the second time before bookclub, I was more motivated knowing it would offer me the chance to get out and go socialize.
On this second round, I stuck with, and it wasn’t until 200 hundred pages that I was officially hooked and could not put it down. It became hard to focus on anything else. It is a murder mystery, but not for the light hearted. I was quite shocked in some places. But I am eager to read the next two in the series, as I really enjoyed the characters, and their relationships with each other. I have to see what more develops. But I might wait awhile.
I’m not sure what to read next. I’ve got some young adult books I could read. Or I could start our next book club book. But I feel like I need something light.
The weekend in food:
Acorn Squash
Wickedly good, acorn squash with heavy whipping cream and maple syrup, always a good winter treat.
Begging.
This guy is developing a bad habit of coming to this counter top looking for food. Granted, I tend to feed him while I am cooking to keep him busy. We let him walk around eating too much. We are trying to get him to sit and eat in his chair.
Good little Jew.
Well this isn’t food, but he’s so cute, I want eat him up!!! But he was acting turdly during tot shabbat, he kept walking up to the front, wanting to mess with the rabbi’s stuff.
Dumplings.
This weekend I prepared Kyle to make Chicken and Dumplings. It was delicious, and we noted how we need to add this to our winter repertoire.
Chicken and Dumplings.
MMMmmmmm!!!
Coconut Cream Pie
My contribution to our waistlines. I am a HUGE coconut fan! That topping was different, it was just heavy whipped whipping cream without sugar, much different from other coconut pies I’ve had.
Licking the plate clean.
He liked the dumplings so much he licked the plate, then proceed to rub the plate all over his face and hair.
Too busy playing in a box.
I also got to attend Mom’s night out and tried a new restaurant – Canopy.
It was a good weekend for food. Not so much for exercising.
And on to another wild week…
Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala
I’m going to start making a habit of finding at least one recipe for Kyle to make on the weekends. He’s such a great cook! This weekend he made Chicken Tikka Masala from Cook’s Illustrated Sept/Nov 2007 issue. I admire and drool over the recipes in Cook’s, I don’t often take on the challenge and try out the recipes inside. We have a subscription more for Kyle because the magazine gets pretty technical about cooking methods and can go into the science-y side. (Zzzzzz 
j/k)
It was a hit with the kids and should be added into the rotation or at least make cooking hits of 2010.
I learned about Chicken Tikka by going with the brother-in-laws to Masala Wok which makes a fast food chicken tikka. We were so excited when we got a home recipe to make. The article posing the question ” Why is it so rarely made at home?” I know I get intimidated by Indian recipes because I tend to think they require a lot of time and attention. I’d actually like to know if an easy Indian cookbook exists.
Now that the holiday rush is over, I’m looking forward to cooksxporations in the kitchen! I want to find a Naan recipe to try out.
Naan-y Naan-y boo boo
Big bite.
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- Chicken and dumplings for dinner, chocolate coconut cream pie for dessert.