A Proverbs 31 Kind of Day

A loooong time ago, a friend of mine had a football watch party. At the party, she served all kinds of tailgate-type food. One of the things she served, of course, was nachos. But they were so much tastier than just plain 'ol nachos. She had "jazzed up" the meat that she put on the nachos. The other day, I texted her to ask what her recipe was. Remember, it was a long time ago . . . but I kind of helped to jog her memory and she gave me, "it was probably   . . . " " . . .or it could have been . . ." But thinking back to what it looked like, I went with the first option of possibility. Here's my dilemma:  I typically like tacos, etc, but I don't typically prefer the taco meat. It is usually dry. It's seasoned fine, but to me, it's just kinda dry. Not so dry you have to choke it down or chase it with a big glass of water. But just sorta dry. So I took my friend's suggestion, tweeked it a bit for what...

My boy cherub has loved oatmeal cookies since the time he could say, "cick-koo." And as a little guy, I knew exactly what he was saying when he asked! Not much has changed as he's grown . . . and oatmeal cookie is still a great treat to him. This week, he has been asking for dessert. Well, he and the girl cherub both! But I haven't made anything. Not because I didn't want to. But we were in and out so much this week, and we were all going to be gone this weekend, that I didn't think it was necessary to bake this week. But here it is, Sunday afternoon, and the weather is perfect, and the house is quiet, so I decided to make the cherubs happy and bake! I'm not really certain that I've made an oatmeal cookie since we've been gluten free, which has been about 2 1/2 years, so it's about time I get a good recipe! This one, I do think, is a keeper. If you're not gluten free . . . but you've kept reading...

This past weekend was spent at the lake with the Mr.'s family. We had a great time of hanging out, laughing, and sitting by the fire. The 7 cousins played marathon air hockey . . .so much that my girl cherub's arm was sore! With 4 families represented, we decided that each family would take one dinner for each of the days we were together and be responsible to provide the food for everybody. Breakfast and lunch . . .each family brought what they wanted and just shared. But dinner was a little more organized. The Mr. and I had the Saturday night dinner. We had big shoes to fill because my brother in law and sister in law did a shrimp boil for everyone on Friday night. It was fantastic! So Saturday afternoon, we set about our dinner preparation. I did all of the prep work that could be done ahead of time at home so that cooking on Saturday night would be as easy as possible. We had the roasted potatoes that I posted a few weeks ago. http://karen-proverbs31...