Pigs Do Fly

Happy Halloween!

On my endless quest for quail eggs, I went to Zupan’s market the other day.  I don’t shop there often, although I normally like to frequent locally owned business.  They have lots of local foods, and a gourmet selection of items.  But they are so expensive.   A post on the internet said they might […]

Kid friendly friday is hosted at I Blame My Mother.  Check out this weeks linky to see the projects and ideas that other mom’s have posted! I think that making book marks is a great activity for kids.  We’ve done it a number of times over the years.  It lends itself to many different themes […]

This weeks open ended art project was pumpkins.  I had a bunch of pumpkin stickers and die cuts left over from the bookmark activity we did at his harvest party, so I pulled those all out, added basic art supplies and let him at it. First he started scribbling all over the page in multiple […]

This day was exhausting!  My mom comes every other week to spend the day with baby L and let me volunteer at kidlet’s school.  Today was thier Harvest Party, and I was running one of the tables (we set up 4 stations and they rotated around to each).  I had them making bookmarks.  I have […]

Yesterday’s monster was a big hit.  Kidlet even  had kids from other classrooms crowding around to look, and they wouldn’t let him eat until they all got a chance to see –  lol! PB and Banana on whole grain white, strawberries, grape tomatoes, carrot and asparagus.  Monster is a piece of cheddar on a piece of […]

Getting a recipe to use this week has been a challenge!  For me, when I try to browse the “top 100” recipes for ANY chef, (except for the 8 or 9 they specifically have listed as links), no recipes come up.   I had to spend a bit of time doing “Cat Cora” +Ingedient searches.  Just using […]

With Halloween just around the corner, kidlet’s class is doing a monster-themed unit this week, so I thought I would try and make monster lunches the rest of the week.  Of course I used up two monster ideas last week, doh!  Today’s lunch was inspired by a piece of art on flickr. Peanut butter and […]

Friday night was fall fun night at Kidlet’s school, and he is really getting pumped for Halloween now!  They had two haunted “houses” – one for the little kids and then the other for 3rd grade +.  After he went through the young one, he said “That wasn’t scary at all!” and made me wait […]

Did pretty well last week.  This week we have a couple new recipes and some old favorites.    Monday:  Meatballs with Spicy Lime Dipping Sauce, Pasta lightly dressed in sesame oil and rice wine vinegar, Asian Beans and Broccoli Tuesday: Garides Avgolemeno  (shrimp in lemon sauce) from Cat Cora for the Food Network Chef Cooking Challenge, Orzo, Green Salad […]