This baby has some serious character. She makes me laugh every single day, and I really don't even remember what we did before we had her. Our lives were so dull!
6/25/2011
6/21/2011
Squasharoni
Here is what happens when your garden is overflowing with squash- everything you make has squash added to it.
What is that you said? You didn't know my garden was overflowing with squash? Well, that's because it isn't. For some weird reason I only planted one plant. I plan to rectify that problem. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to plant the seeds. Chances are that I will only have one plant this whole year. But IF my garden were overflowing with squash, this is how I would cook. And even though it's not, this is how I cook. Yes. Welcome to my life. Be glad I'm not responsible for feeding you. I make up a lot of recipes. Then I pretend like they're the real thing. Then I make my husband guess what he's really eating. Sometimes, he'd rather not know. But, as grudgingly as he may be to admit it, he likes healthy food, particularly when he doesn't know it's healthy.
This is like mac and cheese, but it's the vegetable version of mac n cheese. And it's really good!
I cooked the sauce in the crock pot, because it's a hundred degrees here. Literally. We definitely are not at the coast anymore.
3 crookneck or other yellow squash cut into cubes
1 onion cut into large slices
salt, garlic, and pepper
enough water to cover everything
It took about an hour and a half on high in the crockpot to get soft enough.
Then I threw it all in the blender and pureed it.
Transfer to a pan on the stove and heat till boiling. Turn off the heat then add 3 oz of cheese.
One of those brilliant facts that I never knew about- if you boil the cheese, it will curdle. Sometimes I wonder how I've survived in life so long without figuring these things out.
Once the cheese melts, you're done!
I put it over this pasta from Trader Joe's, because it's really good. And because then it's vegetables served on vegetables, which makes me laugh.
What is that you said? You didn't know my garden was overflowing with squash? Well, that's because it isn't. For some weird reason I only planted one plant. I plan to rectify that problem. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting to plant the seeds. Chances are that I will only have one plant this whole year. But IF my garden were overflowing with squash, this is how I would cook. And even though it's not, this is how I cook. Yes. Welcome to my life. Be glad I'm not responsible for feeding you. I make up a lot of recipes. Then I pretend like they're the real thing. Then I make my husband guess what he's really eating. Sometimes, he'd rather not know. But, as grudgingly as he may be to admit it, he likes healthy food, particularly when he doesn't know it's healthy.This is like mac and cheese, but it's the vegetable version of mac n cheese. And it's really good!
I cooked the sauce in the crock pot, because it's a hundred degrees here. Literally. We definitely are not at the coast anymore.
3 crookneck or other yellow squash cut into cubes
1 onion cut into large slices
salt, garlic, and pepper
enough water to cover everything
It took about an hour and a half on high in the crockpot to get soft enough.
Then I threw it all in the blender and pureed it.
Transfer to a pan on the stove and heat till boiling. Turn off the heat then add 3 oz of cheese.
One of those brilliant facts that I never knew about- if you boil the cheese, it will curdle. Sometimes I wonder how I've survived in life so long without figuring these things out.
Once the cheese melts, you're done!
I put it over this pasta from Trader Joe's, because it's really good. And because then it's vegetables served on vegetables, which makes me laugh.
The finished product. Please excuse the hideous iphone picture. I was too hungry to mess with my camera. I am pregnant, don't judge me :)
Phil says he's take this over normal mac n cheese any day! Pretty impressive for a vegetable hater. Charlotte loved it too, but that doesn't count for much since she eats everything in sight.
6/20/2011
Life on the farm
I like to pretend we live on a farm. Well, we do kinda live on a farm actually. I feel like we're pretending though. And I enjoy it. Since we moved here we have gotten 24 chickens, 3 goats, and a cat. In addition to the horses and dogs we already had. Poor Phil would probably love to have 2 dogs and nothing else. But he's very sweet in letting me acquire animals and building them homes. The chickens lived on our porch in a horse water trough for 6 weeks. Their coop finally got built a few weeks ago, and it's so nice to have them in a bigger space, away from the porch.
Charlotte loved following Bubba around especially since she can say his name. "BuBAH BuBAH", she still runs around calling for him two weeks later.
And the baby goats, she loves these things. She calls them baby but always says it in questions form, Baybee?
We've been milking the mama goats and drinking the milk. Charlotte loves it and I love that she isn't getting hormone loaded pasteurized homogenized milk! Yay farm!
6/16/2011
Catch up
I find myself with less of a desire to blog lately. And that statement isn't completely accurate unless the word less is equivalent of the word no. However, it does keep me taking and, more importantly, editing pictures. So, once again here is an attempt, regardless of how futile, to blog again.
Charlotte had her birthday in April. One. I can't even think about how fast time is flying by. I am trying to enjoy every day and enjoy the stage where she is right now. Which is easy, since every month she has been my favorite age. I loooooved 12 months, till she was 13 months, and now suddenly 14 months is the best.
We had a great little party on her birthday with the family. And I'll tell you this, I've never let Charlotte have sugar, and even her cake was only sweetened with applesauce and frosted with greek yogurt. She was thrilled with it. However, certain grandparents decided to feed her mass amounts of the other cake, the white flour, sugar laden, one. That night Charlotte didn't sleep. At. All. She was doing back flips on our bed, and bouncing up to the ceiling till 4 am. Probably the longest night we've had since she was a newborn, and I felt completely justified in my no sugar for the baby stance. Aside from being bad for her, this kid is wound tight enough without the addition of sugar! The good thing was that Phil became the sugar nazi from that point on, so I don't usually have to worry about him sneaking her sugary stuff anymore!
Charlotte had her birthday in April. One. I can't even think about how fast time is flying by. I am trying to enjoy every day and enjoy the stage where she is right now. Which is easy, since every month she has been my favorite age. I loooooved 12 months, till she was 13 months, and now suddenly 14 months is the best.
We had a great little party on her birthday with the family. And I'll tell you this, I've never let Charlotte have sugar, and even her cake was only sweetened with applesauce and frosted with greek yogurt. She was thrilled with it. However, certain grandparents decided to feed her mass amounts of the other cake, the white flour, sugar laden, one. That night Charlotte didn't sleep. At. All. She was doing back flips on our bed, and bouncing up to the ceiling till 4 am. Probably the longest night we've had since she was a newborn, and I felt completely justified in my no sugar for the baby stance. Aside from being bad for her, this kid is wound tight enough without the addition of sugar! The good thing was that Phil became the sugar nazi from that point on, so I don't usually have to worry about him sneaking her sugary stuff anymore!
3/25/2011
Alphabet book
The book is done! It actually came in the mail yesterday, and I'm really happy with it. But I never did post the rest of the pictures over here, so I'll try to get that done!
3/24/2011
3/15/2011
In denial
My baby is eleven months old as of last weekend! Make it stop!!! We're approaching one year old way to quickly.
Charlotte is crazier than ever, her latest accomplishments include
more talking -baby. num num. always with the pause between them (feed me now), dada (finally!), baybu (no idea what it means but she says it and points all day long)
Finally making the switch to walking
Eating dirt- a new favorite since we've been outside so much
Loving animals- nice change from hating them for the last 11 months
Hunting down her paci when you ask her where it went
Talking to every stranger we pass in the store and yelling and waving if they don't look her way (daddy's girl!)
Looking right at you and talking jibberish like it's real sentences
Getting excited when you ask if she wants to go outside
Crawling in to the kitchen and yelling num num whenever she wants a snack
Having a wild spell every night around six where everything is hilarious and she can't hold still
Randomly breaking out in song and dance
She is precious, and perfect, and such a blessing. Even if she is way to old!
Charlotte is crazier than ever, her latest accomplishments include
more talking -baby. num num. always with the pause between them (feed me now), dada (finally!), baybu (no idea what it means but she says it and points all day long)
Finally making the switch to walking
Eating dirt- a new favorite since we've been outside so much
Loving animals- nice change from hating them for the last 11 months
Hunting down her paci when you ask her where it went
Talking to every stranger we pass in the store and yelling and waving if they don't look her way (daddy's girl!)
Looking right at you and talking jibberish like it's real sentences
Getting excited when you ask if she wants to go outside
Crawling in to the kitchen and yelling num num whenever she wants a snack
Having a wild spell every night around six where everything is hilarious and she can't hold still
Randomly breaking out in song and dance
She is precious, and perfect, and such a blessing. Even if she is way to old!
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