Never realized how easy it is to make egg drop soup!! I did double the eggs in the recipe, as some of the reviewers suggested. Sooo good! and super cheap too!
Check it out!
Mara “helped” whisk the eggs, after which she proudly announced, “Daddy! I helped Mommy make dinner!”
The best part was during dinner, when she took her first sip: “Thank you, Mom! It’s my favorite soup!”
Yesterday Apryl from About.com’s Stay-at-Home Moms site e-mailed me:
” . . . you are the Mom Blogger of the Week on About.com’s Stay-at-Home Moms site . . .”
So I’d like to encourage my readers to click on the link above, and then check out the Stay-at-Home Moms site for tips on time management, school shopping, saving money, current events/entertainment relating to kids and families–something relevant for all stay-at-home moms! Take a look!
After a couple Olive Garden recipes, I needed something really simple. . .
I found the 5-Minute Southwest Layered Salad on Kraft’s website! The recipe below is copied from their site, so you don’t even have to click on the link.
Super simple. Reasonably healthy. No cooking involved (which is huge this week when it’s going to be in the 90’s every day!) And it’s actually a meatless dinner that my husband said he would enjoy having again! (I’m bookmarkin’ this one!)
PLACE lettuce on serving platter or in bottom of glass serving bowl.
COVER with layers of beans, corn, salsa and cheese.
DRIZZLE with dressing; sprinkle with chips.
My sister-in-law is going off to college this fall, and we wanted to make her a special dinner. So once again, I turned to the Olive Garden Recipes site–and we were not disappointed!
We made the Chicken Castellina, Bruschetta al Pomodoro, and a variation on the broccoli and tomatoes from this recipe. The Chicken Castellina was outstanding! Every bit as good as a dish you would find at my favorite Macaroni Grill! In fact, I told my husband that I must have chosen the wrong dishes when I’ve gone to Olive Garden, because none of them were as good as the two we have made at home, using their recipes! (Once again, photo is straight from Olive Garden’s website because we were too busy cooking, watching the toddlers, and eating to take pictures!)
We love sun-dried tomatoes. Love Gouda cheese. Parmesan cheese. Bacon. Chicken.
How can you go wrong with all these ingredients in a sauce of white wine, butter, milk, and cream?!?! (I have to acknowledge what is quite obvious: this recipe would not be on the Weight Watcher’s list–or even permissible for someone in that program!) I didn’t even bother to look at the nutritional information, because with all those ingredients, I’m convinced there were more calories in that dish than I should ever even think about!
But we absolutely loved it! I used campanelle pasta because I saw several “new limited time” Olive Garden dishes using that type of pasta. We liked it.
The Bruschetta was okay. I think I cut the bread too thick. And we heated it in the toaster oven instead of the grill. And I had dry basil, instead of fresh. (I know, I know–one chef described dry basil as barely a “step above pencil shavings.”) So my adjustments explain why it was just okay.
But when you follow the recipe to a ‘t,’ like we did with the Chicken Castellina, I don’t think you’re going to find a recipe on Olive Garden’s site that isn’t gourmet quality!
Hey, if I can do it, you can too!
In his article Why Memorize Scripture (which, by the way, you should definitely read), John Piper lists several reasons for memorizing Scripture:
I’ve recently learned another reason for us stay-at-home moms to memorize Scripture ourselves by quoting it aloud several times a day:
The kids and I were sitting at dinner. Daniel was working late. I was focused on feeding Micah, and Mara as usual was talking incessantly. She began muttering something quietly, and I didn’t pay close attention at first. So I only caught the last half.
She was saying, ” . . . workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Then she looked at me with a mischievous smile–as if to say, ‘Betcha didn’t know I knew that one, did you?’
She was quoting Ephesians 2:10–a verse I memorized almost a month and a half ago–and haven’t quoted since! It really amazed me–not that she was capable of memorizing (because she has memorized other verses). But this was one of my verses. I don’t think I ever heard her quote it while I was actually working on it!
God actually used my daughter to encourage me to keep memorizing Scripture! I need God’s Word, in my life. And hopefully, as I am faithful, my children too will reap all its benefits in the future as God takes His word and works it in their hearts as well!