God’s Love and Snow Cones

Last night, our family joined a group from church to witness during Austin’s First Thursday arts, crafts, music and food fair. That was a huge blessing! It’s not often that we are able to serve in ministry as a family. It was also awesome to see the boys in action. They were with a couple [...]

Tres Leches Cake – La Bomba!

Adapted from The Pioneer Woman’s recipe. Hers is great, but we made changes so it deserves the subtitle: La Bomba! You can not say something Spanish like that without a hearty ! Ingredients 1 cup All-purpose Flour 1-1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt generous pinch or two of freshly grated nutmeg 1 teaspoon [...]

Berry Syrup

Painfully easy! Simple syrup, even amounts of sugar and water, boiled until sugar dissolves. While that is boiling, take a small bag of frozen berries and pulse them in a food processor until they are very fine bits. Add frozen fruit crumbs to the boiling sugar. Bring back to a boil, lower the temp just [...]

Strawberry Love

This is for Karen, who has the same exact bowl as I do but has prettier strawberries. That, and more light.

Quick S’mores

This is a recipe by my oldest. I am making sure we get it in writing so he can refer back to it. He hopes to make more tomorrow and share them with friends at church. He made two batches today. For his first, he used milk chocolate and mint chocolate. The second had dark [...]

Stuffed French Toast

Can you think of anything you’d rather have for lunch than stuffed french toast? Didn’t think so. French Toast Part 1 loaf of challah, sliced into 1/2″-3/4″ slices 3/4 -1 c. milk, enough to make the eggs runny so the bread can absorb lots 8 eggs (I know, I know, but even this wasn’t enough!) [...]

J’s Birthday Party!

Family: more photos here on Flickr. Woohoo! Ok, is it sad that I didn’t realize his 6th birthday party was on the 6th? Because it didn’t connect for me until just now. But enough of the sadness! Because the party was all about gladness. Back up a little to the day before: the boys and [...]

Beef & Mushrooms Over Noodles

3 lbs stew meat 8 oz. brown mushrooms 1 bay leaf 3 tbs. each butter and flour 1 1/3 c. beef stock salt and pepper to taste 3 tbs. chopped fresh parsley Finely chop half of the mushrooms and slice the rest. This is so little ones with mushroom apprehension disorder can still enjoy them [...]

Broccoli Beef

I don’t have exact measurements so I hope you’ll forgive me. But this was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Err…make that God needs the credit because He created garlic. 2 small heads broccoli, cut into bite sized pieces 1 medium red bell pepper, cut into strips 3 heaping tbs. (tablespoons!) of garlic, [...]

Blintzes, Phisch-Style

That title isn’t very appetizing, is it?! This is a something we make for breakfast each Christmas morning for the last few years. Because we love them so much, we make them other times of the year, too, particularly when strawberries are in season. They’re not the usual blintzes, though. I once mis-read the recipe [...]

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