Fareway

I just wanted to take a moment and send some love to Fareway-- the grocery store.

Macaroni & Cheese

As I read and follow other blogs, I often feel inadequate.  How is everyone else's life so picture-perfect and cute?  How do they find the time to do all of that crafting, decorating, and cooking while taking awesome pictures of the whole process and then find the time to blog about it?!  Satan has somehow snuck the idea into my mind that in addition to having a clean, perfectly and stylishly decorated home, cooking fabulous (yet nutritionally balanced) meals, as well as doing my best to look attractive myself, being wifish also requires me to be an excellent blogger as well.  I am fighting this lie, and God continues to remind me that He wants me to be me, not someone else.

Family, Baseball, and Garage Shelves

Although we haven't been galavanting all over the country for 7 weddings in a summer this year, we have been keeping pretty busy.

My New Favorite

As we continue the egg saga we move on to my favorite egg dish yet: homemade pudding.  I don't recall ever having pudding from scratch before, although I had heard it was pretty good.  I always buy it in a box and mix it up with milk, and thought that was quite tasty, so I could hardly imagine that "from scratch" was such an improvement that it was worth the extra time, effort, and patience.

The Zucchini That Ate Manhattan

Excerpt from Grow Great Grub by Gayla Trail:

"Once or twice per season, a zucchini is lost in the tangle of leaves or just plain forgotten and I get stuck with the squash that ate Manhattan..."

Souffle

Since I have so many eggs on hand, I figured I would try to make a souffle.  I whipped out the good ol' Better Homes and Gardens cookbook (some may know it better as "the Betty Crocker Cookbook... not to be confused with the actual Betty Crocker Cookbook) and found a simple recipe.

Everyone has one...

... that friend that intentionally ruins every picture.  They pretend they will smile and be good while you frame the shot, then as soon as you snap the picture they cross thier eyes, stick thier tongue out, give someone bunny ears, or turn the other direction.  Aggggh!

Adventures With Eggs

Two weeks ago Fairway had eggs on sale for $.49 a dozen (limit 2).   We didn't particularly need eggs, but who can pass up a deal like that? Eggs keep for awhile anyway...I bought two dozen.

Then last week HyVee was having an AWESOME $1 sale on lots of things: cheese, Little Debbie Snacks, Ribs, bread...and eggs.  $1.00 for two dozen.  Again, who can pass up a deal like that?  Eggs are a cheap source of protein anyway...I bought two dozen.