Recipe of the Week

I want to share some of the yummy things this family eats, but not everything has a story.
So my plan is to post a new recipe every tuesday of something we ate during the previous week.
Please remind me if I forget.
Just click on the link near the top of the page.

Z is for Zucchini

Ever since my zucchini brownies, Jeff is wary of anything I make... "are there veggies in it?" he asks. I wanted to use some of my frozen shredded zucchini so I made chocolate chip muffins that are clearly zucchini based. No tricks this time. But they are yummy. I have a great zucchini loaf recipe, but with a little tweaking it made a yummy muffin recipe.

I also made rice krispie squares (the recipe is on the box) for a kids' group at church. Jacob helped me, and discovered that marshmallows are delicious. He didn't really want to try one at first. He picked all the sticky leftovers out of the bowl and licked the spoon and then asked for more. When I was busy later on, he got his stool and helped himself to a very large piece right from the pan. It is fun to make stuff with him, and I think he likes it because I usually let him taste as we go along.

Speaking of marshmallows.... today Jacob cut his toe, and to make him feel better while I cleaned and bandaged it (at the kitchen table) he wanted a marshmallow. Usually in this type of scenario I ask if a chocolate chip would make him feel better and it works, but not today. I hope I don't have to start stocking marshmallows in my pantry now!

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins

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Ingredients:

3 eggs

3/4 cup cooking oil

1 cup sugar

2 cups zucchini, grated

2 tsp vanilla

3 cups flour

1 1/2  tsp baking powder

1 1/2  tsp baking soda

1/2  tsp salt

1 1/2  tsp cinnamon

1 cup chocolate chips

Directions:

-Beat eggs until frothy. Add oil and sugar. Add zucchini and vanilla.

-Combine next five ingredients in separate bowl. 

-Stir all together to moisten. Add chocolate chips.

-Pour into lined muffin pan.

-Bake 25-30 minutes at 350.

-Makes about 20 large muffins.

Non-Kitchen Adventure

So I had a crazy adventure yesterday, in my living room. But I had to share this story, and technically I had to walk through the kitchen to get a flashlight so maybe it belongs on this blog. You have to guess what this picture is of before you read on:

What the heck?!?

If you guessed Lightning McQueen and Mater stuck way inside my piano, you are right!

And Jacob was determined that Fillmore the Bus should also go inside the piano. At first I didn't know what had happened, or where Jacob's cars went, but when we played the keys that the cars were sitting on we could hear them moving around. I was worried that wasn't good for the piano so I quickly put a stop to that. The cars were rescued successfully, and I hope it doesn't happen again.

And now back into the kitchen... Daniel LOVES rice cereal and is getting good at being messy, so here is a picture of my little cutie:

More Please!

And also Jacob drew a beautiful picture, he said it was bees when I asked him. Oh, and I drew the heart, in case you were wondering.

Bees!

Solid Food!

So I decided to start Daniel on some solid food. Mmmm baby rice cereal... He seemed to like it and did really well! And I don't even have any messy first food pictures to show you because he was super neat and swallowed everything. His face only got a little messy when he moved and I poked him in the nose with the spoon! Jacob found the whole process fascinating- he is always wanting to share his food with Daniel and we have to say that Daniel can't eat crackers or toast or strawberries because he has no teeth! Anyways, Jacob wanted to try the rice cereal, so I let him - the look on his face was priceless because that stuff is pretty gross. Why can't "they" make baby foods that aren't either icky tasting or totally tasteless? Poor baby, he would much prefer  whipped cream or pizza sauce.