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by Lori Ann
After months of experimenting with buckwheat, I’ve finally developed my perfect buckwheat recipe. I can’t wait til Tigger is old enough to eat it! Click “more” below to read it and try it out for yourself.
Kat from KatManDew Designs is giving away a Turquoise Mama Nursing Necklace to one lucky MamaWit reader at the end of September!
Find out how to enter all throughout the month.
by Lori Ann
clearly, not my photo (I’m out of town and couldn’t get my own cabinet!)
photo by Robot B on flickr
We’ve never been great at keeping up with meal planning. We’ll write a week’s menu, only to forget it two days in. More often, we don’t get to the menu-writing at all.
Part of our (my) problem is not being great at cooking “on the fly.” It’s complicated to figure out which recipes share ingredients, but I’ve never cooked without recipes.
To remedy this problem, I just finished reading How to Cook Without a Book. I’m implementing the first step right now, keeping an ongoing list of food to stock in the house. She acknowledges that everyone’s will be different based on their tastes, so here’s ours:
by LoriAnn
Each Saturday when I’m feeling so inspired, I snap a photo of a space where I’ve been spending a lot of time that week and invite you to do the same by uploading your photo to our flickr group or your own site. You can comment on this post about my photo or leave a link to yours!
Filed under Home, Life, Spaces Saturdays
by LoriAnn
“What’s this doing out on the counter?” Baba asks.
“Oh no! I must have left it out this morning!” Mama replies (and it is now 9pm). No use crying over spoilt milk, so my brain starts turning… and then my fingers are turning the pages in our family cookbook to this favorite recipe! Hope you enjoy it as much as we have been all week!
by LoriAnn
Ooops! I was revising the Mama Cooks page (sort of our online family recipe box) and realized that I’d never converted the Granola Goodness recipe into U.S. measurements as promised last October! I finally got around to it, so here you go!
We’d only been back in China a few days when Baba’s first Fathers’ Day (Babas’ Day?) came around. His gift hadn’t arrived in the mail yet (it did today!) but I wanted to do something special for him. In the U.S., I bought a silicone mini-bundt-cake pan at Goodwill, so I looked up a chocolate cake recipe and settled on the one below, originally from Recipezaar (I just halved all the ingredients; it took the same amount of time to bake). I wish I’d taken pictures, but we ate it too quickly, so you’ll have to settle for Tigger handing Baba his present.
Oh, wow! I ran across this photo on my Flickr account this morning and decided Applesauce Spice Bread needs to be on our meal plan for this week!
Now, where is that recipe?
Guess what I did today!? I got dressed out of my CLOSET!! It’s the first time since before Tigger’s birth that my clothes didn’t come straight from the suitcase!
Umm, yes, that means it’s taken me over 2 weeks to unpack. Just yesterday did we manage to finish unpacking, and now my clothes are in my closet!
The first thing I realized when unpacking was that I didn’t have enough hangers for everything. At one point in my life, that would have meant going out to buy new hangers. These days, as I pursue contentment in what I own, I find ways to pass along excess, and to make use of ‘waste’.
Filed under Home, organize/simplify
Baba brought home a sack of a new-to-us grain today: buckwheat. We’re used to buckwheat flour, common around here for delicious buckwheat cakes (dipped in honey, yum!), but had never tried the grain itself (called buckwheat “groat” when it’s raw). We’ve been experimenting with various whole grains, eating Hasty Pudding (cooked cornmeal) for breakfast and brown rice with lunch and dinner, so we’re going to mix things up with buckwheat.
Paul teases me about it, pregnancy books joke about it, but it’s a serious matter when you’re pregnant… what to eat!?!
Simply Lori Ann 