I tried a few new recipes this week. Two vegetable sides were from a recipe book sent to me by Eileen from the Air Force Spouses’ Club. The corn casserole was super-easy and tasty (as it should have been, with half a cup of soy butter!) and the carrot casserole was good as well. [...]
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I tried a new recipe tonight – Creamy Cheesy Ham and Pasta. Of course, I substituted soy products for the milk ones and we didn’t have any onions. Because I only had vanilla soymilk, it was a little sweeter than originally intended, so we put some pepper on top for flavor and enjoyed it [...] I tried a recipe from Eileen for Bake Ahead French Toast. Of course, I had to substitute a bunch of things: soymilk for milk, soy butter for butter and a powdered egg substitute that I found at Wegmans. (It’s called Ener-G Egg Replacer and it worked well.) Chuck and I both liked it, but [...] Chuck made a comment last week about being depressed because Nicky can’t have real macaroni and cheese like normal kids, so I became determined to find something that we could all enjoy together instead. I tried this recipe tonight with a couple of substitutions: we couldn’t find nutritional yeast at the store (which was [...] Nicky finally slept all night again last night, and clearly his brain was working hard. His vocabulary has improved a ton, just since yesterday! He’s mastered the “ow” sound and has been using it every chance he gets: plow, cow, down, meow, bow, towel. He’s also gotten better at pronouncing Keanu’s name; it comes [...] Nicky and I survived our week while Chuck was in Columbus! We were busy, but not too much so. Monday, I had to work 5-9, so Nicky went next door with Katie, Chris and Rylie. He did really well, especially considering that it was the first time he’d ever been away from either Chuck [...] Now that I’m domesticated, I’ve started to cook almost every night. Here are a couple of our favorite recipes so far: Maple-glazed chicken with cranberries and arugula Chuck doesn’t like Gorgonzola cheese, so we substitute with feta, and it’s so good! Last time I made it, I added cut-up apples with the skins on [...] I had this recipe for Red Lentil and Sweet Potato Curry pulled up on the computer to make for over a month now; I finally tried it tonight for dinner and we liked it very much! I didn’t use enough water because I didn’t have enough lentils, so it burned a bit on the [...] Chuck and I decided to have a low-key Easter this year, at home with Nicky. We had a really wonderful day! We didn’t have to get up until Nicky woke up at 7:30 this morning, which is about normal for him but an extra hour of sleep for us! Nicky found his Easter basket [...] |
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