Spending too many sick days at home, thankfully with time in between bouts of puke to craft a little love,
and roll a little dough,
sneaking away when whomever was suppose to be on Sophie duty was not, and helping us remember to always have Magic Erasers on hand,
and planing someone's soon to be 6 YEAR OLD birthday party- Batman themed of course!
"Sunday Still Life is an evolving photography project at exhale: return to center; an weekly invitation to pause the busy of our days, to re-center and celebrate the beauty and depth of life.
-recouping from bugs and colds and gross things
-spending morning time making good things from scratch
-grocery shopping and chatting with my girl and being under budget!
-remembering how much I get done and how much I enjoy grading in a busy coffee shop with something warm next to me
Happy Sunday and new week to all!
We're making room for new jars,
new ingredients,
new recipes,
and THIRDS!
OH this was AMAZING!!
I love putting simple ingredients into a pan and calling it dinner. We're hungry and tired when we get home from school. The kids want something with cheese or peanut butter on it, we big people want comfort to transition us from work to home, and we all just want food NOW (which we're working on- oh those French for making us realize that waiting for things is actually a good thing...I mean, I had NO clue...sarcasm intended- good article, but not all of us Americans are clueless.)
Last week- We had the staples- onions, kosher salt, olive oil, and pasta.
We also had some ricotta cheese, a ball of fresh mozzarella, and a bag of frozen brussel sprouts.
It was EASY
EXTRA CHEESY
and DIVINE!
Of course- finishing the meal off with some good ole fashion Thin Mints (thank you Girl Scouts)
made it even more DIVINE!
Pasta with Brussel Sprouts, Ricotta, and Mozzarella
Saute onions and thawed brussel sprouts in olive oil and kosher/sea salt until slightly brown and tender.
Add cooked pasta with 1/4 cup of pasta water.
Add 3/4 cup of ricotta cheese.
Add 1 cup of cut up fresh mozzarella cheese.
Stir to coat and melt.
ENJOY!
"Sunday Still Life is an evolving photography project; an weekly invitation to pause the busy of our days, to re-center and celebrate the beauty and depth of life."
We're painting bird houses with bright colors- blending and mixing. We're staying in because it's too cold to hike, so bikes are zooming around the basement instead. New meals are simmering thanks to Heather's wonderful Whole Food Kitchen, and sinus infections are clearing up, making our girl, our girl again.
Mama's sniffling under blankets, but has the big guy to lead the way.
Oh how we look forward to you, Sunday!
Recently, on a whim, I decided to take a chance with a blogger I'd recently stumbled upon. I signed up for her class and waited.
Today it started.
Today I want to be NO WHERE ELSE but in my kitchen.
I am so excited.
Already I have tips (I now know how to make Almond Milk), tons of recipes (Curry, Sesame Noodles, Crumbles), cooking videos (my most fav.), a community of fellow cooks and eaters interested in whole food- the list goes on.
For three months- I'll be learning and cooking, redoing my cubbords (OH YES), and really cementing all the ideals Clark and I have come to believe are good and true and so for us.
Soon, more of these lovely little jars filled with more nuts, seeds, and grains will be overflowing in my pantry. More veggies we haven't tried or need to try more of will be ready to be chopped. More fruits will be blended into smoothies.
We're good about eating food- straight from the ground food- but we need to be even better.
I need more ideas- more ways to get good things into us without popping vitamins that may or may not do good things for our bodies.
We need more variety, more staples, more reasons to want to stay home and eat and not be temped to eat out or in my case eat what's sitting in the faculty lounge.
This is exactly what I've needed- someone who's read the cookbooks and all of Michael Pollan's words, figured out the tricks, and gotten her kid to love the food- someone to do the hard work I'd actually love to do, but have no time to center on.
So thankful something good has come from my wanderings through cyberspace...ahem...working on this too.
Happy cooking real food to you!
P.S. The link for the class is on my sidebar.
Sunday Still Life is an evolving photography project; a weekly invitation to pause the busy of our days, to re-center and celebrate the beauty and depth of life.
Sunday hiking (AGAIN- maybe routine- I hope!) with good friends + "I take a splash" (ie: falling into the lake) + Dad's sweatshirt + pb with honey= A mostly lovely way to get out and be together!
An exercise from The 10-Day Family Re-Charge at eringoodman.com
Above: The words of my words- A word cloud of Sagetribe02
The big kids and I have been making clouds!
(or a collage of words pulled together that relate to a topic)
In Writer's Workshop, the big kids are practicing how to argue and persuade (because they need the practice...ahem...) so they typed in their main topic/s to generate a cloud. Their clouds were filled with synonyms to consider adding into their essay and/or vocabulary to research.
We also typed in our names (this was a hit) and used the generated list to spark poems, lyrics, stories.
Love sites like these!
Happy Cloud Making!
