Kira creates Bean Dumplings and wins!

Simply marvelous!  You can read the recipe on her blog.

Over the summer, the girls have a way to make money... Find or create a new recipe and blog about it.  They get paid $2-10 for the recipe.  Desserts earn less money than super healthy dinners.

New Pancakes!

We reached burnout on pancakes I made every week for 3-ish years.  We stopped making them 6 months to a year ago.  It was good while it lasted, and I expect we'll be back at some point, but for now, we needed new options.

It was last summer that Natalie found this recipe.  So simple and yummy.  Absolute perfection!  Here's Natalie's blog post about the recipe and a special topping.

Yum!

And, I just realized our scanpan is officially 4 years old and going strong.  We NEVER use oil in it.  The recipes may have a little oil in them, or nut butter, but we don't put oil into the pan.

Garden

I am so bad at blogging this year; we had a broken foot (two metatarsals) and a big meeting at work. Wooooooosh went four months.  Now we have three dance shows (plus two other performances that already happened).  (Can you say a little crazy around here?)

We've made a couple new dinners and I need to get them blogged. Natalie made a basil and cilantro pesto, Kira made a new pasta dish, we've been making a lot of guacamole and taco bars, and our list is helping us make a better rotation in our dinners. 

In the meantime, enjoy the pictures of our spring garden.  It was planted about a month ago (and these pictures are a couple of weeks old (see BAD at blogging this year). 

 
Artichoke, Zucchini, bush beans.
 

 
Corn for the summer!

 

 
fava beans from the winter garden that are now harvested and frozen for use through the year.