Category: Dinner

Easy Pizza

7/11/2014

Like most people, we are always strapped for time. With daylight hours lasting longer, summer playdates often run into dinner "prep time". Rather than buy dinner every other night, were are looking for reasonably quick and delicious ways to create the meals we love.

This time we made pizza. I love making my sauce from scratch, but you can use store bought sauce as well. Add a four tortilla and cheese and herbs and you have the perfect crispy flatbread pizza. It literally took 17 minutes to create this meal and the kids loved it. Looks like this will be a go-to dinner option at our house.

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SUSHI-FEST & FROYO

11/25/2013

Sometimes it's just good to spend time with just one kid..

When you have multiple kids, it can be hard to get that one-on-one time. Sometimes it's just good to take one kid out and give them a special time. We dropped the younger two and hung out with our super cool godmother one evening for sushi and froyo.

Sushi is a Japanese food of raw fish and vinegared rice. We obviously had "western sushi" (rolls), not traditional Japanese sushi. Our meal consisted of california rolls, shrimp, tuna and salmon rolls. Some rolls had tempura. Tempura is battered seafood or vegetables.

Taking hold of my adventurous side, I decided to try mussels, one of my least favorite foods to look at. You only live once, may as well live it to the max! These were cooked (thankfully). Not sure if I'll ever try the "uncooked" version.

Our fun evening concluded with one of our favorite desserts... froyo. Froyo is short for frozen yogurt. One of the original frozen yogurt places I remember growing up was "TCBY" (http://www.tcby.com). There are so many different kinds of froyo places. But honestly they all have frozen yogurt, they all have "mix ins" and they are all weighed by the ounce. The cool flavors and crazy "mix ins" or toppings make the experience super awesome and provide thousands of potentially different varieties. Our froyo place had board games and awesome music which made for a really great evening.

A few Froyo flavors we've come across:

Apple
Banana
Blueberry
Cake Batter
Cheesecake
Chocolate
Coconut
Coffee
Dolce de Leche
French Toast
Lychee
Mango
Mint
Pineapple
Pistachio
Pumpkin Pie
Red Velvet Cake
Strawberry
Taro
Tart
Tiramisu
Vanilla
Wildberry

PASTA SAUCE FAST FORWARD

11/11/2013

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It's always good to have a quick back-up meal...
One of our favorite, very quick dinner options is pasta! We've gotten it down to a science. We can be finished in 20 minutes and have made the sauce from scratch.

20 Minute Meals in 20 Seconds

Basic Pasta Sauce Ingredients:

1 can Tomato Paste
Olive oil
1 Onion
1/4 Bell Pepper (any color)
Tomato
Garlic
Spinach
Oregano
Basil
Parsley
Salt & Pepper to taste
Sugar to taste if necessary

Other Add-ins:
Olives
Mushrooms
Kale

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Easy Pizza

SUSHI-FEST & FROYO

Sometimes it's just good to spend time with just one kid..

PASTA SAUCE FAST FORWARD

20 Minute Meals in 20 Seconds

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