Feeding my man, boys and girl.

I have embarked on a journey. I am working through a new cookbook. "Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys" by Lucinda Scala Quinn. I used a recipe she published in the Everyday Food Magazine that came from this cookbook. Then a week or so later I saw her on the Martha Stewart Show promoting this book. Well the quest was on, I had to have it. I found it last weekend and the week has been filled with planning for the big cook this weekend. So far I have made: Breakfast burritos pg. 23, Spainish frittata pg. 27, Aunt Patty's coffee cake pg. 46, chicken enchiladas salsa verde pg. 133, Basic beef stew pg. 152, and Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies pg. 252. My children have liked the recipes. Their favorite was the cookies of course. It was the one recipe they all liked. My oldest is the pickiest eater in the bunch. He is a processed food junkie. He didn't like the breakfast burritos because he didn't like the chizoro sausage, so next time I will probably use a good American sausage. He also didn't like the frittata this morning because it was cold. The recipe said it was good hot or cold. He slept too late and that is his problem. None of them where especially crazy about the Green enchilladas. My middle child said "I don't like my main course concealed in a green sauce." For those of you who watch the Andy Griffith Show know where that line comes from. Tonight we will have the Basic Beef Stew. I will let you know how that goes over.

Here we go again....

More snow, go figure. Well this wasn't the "big" snow that was predicted. We got about six inches, not the 12+ that the weather man was saying. Em and I got out in the snow for a little while on Saturday. It made me kind of sad because neither of the boys wanted to get out in the snow and play this time. They said it was too cold. I know they are growing up and playing in the snow doesn't appeal to teenagers like it once did. Em and I tried to build a snowman, but the snow was too powdery and didn't stick very well, so we ended up making a snowmoundman. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

January

Wow, what a beginning to 2010. So much snow and I am now the mother of two teenagers. We have missed so much school due to the snow and bad weather. The boys have been busy playing basketball. Gray tried to cut his finger off. Em's basketball team is undefeated. They will begin tournament play soon. Kaleb's team won last week's tounament in Elizabethton. I have been spending many hours crocheting. We will call it hooking. Today we are home from school because of snow. The weather man is giving more snow for this weekend. This is suppose to be "sugnificant" snow.

Container Gardening

While in NY we enjoyed the old houses and the beautiful flowers. I would love to know how they make their baskets, and pots so beautiful. My containers look really sad right now. Please if anyone out there reads this and has some suggestions on how I can achieve the look of the flowers in the pictures I have added to this post, PLEASE let me know!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long time no see....

Wow, it has been a long time since I have been able to update. I guess that I am living up to my blog title. School is finally out and we have been on the move. Gray played in Cooperstown, NY. He did incredibily well, he hit two home runs. We fell in love with Cooperstown. It is an incredible town. We loved Schnider's Bakery and Double Day Cafe. Triple Play Cafe is very good as well. Our favorite place we ate was actually in Oneata, a place called Pondo's II. The best food and the portions where huge! Anyone visiting upstate NY must vist Pondo's II.

It has been awhile!

Boy has it been busy around here. Baseball, softball, life, it is all great. Em played in her first tournament of the year this weekend. They did pretty good. They were third. She turned her first double play! We were all very excited.
School is winding down. Four weeks left. But what a busy summer. Gray is going to Cooperstown, NY to play at the Field of Dreams the week of the fourth. Then the following week the boys will be playing in the Tennessee World Series. Then add in all the baseball and basketball camps in and sprinkle the Coach's Clinic and CTE Summer Conference. It will be a summer packed from beginning to end.

Juggling it all!

What a day. Today EmmaLee had an eye appointment, I had a dentist appointment, the boys had open gym, and Em had softball practice. Ken and I are like ships passing in the night, but we often swap cargo (children). He is a great help with the children. I don't know how single parents get it all done.