Not a good start for my dinner challenge week. Dinner was a bust today. The recipe I chose, slow cooker barbecue chicken, was entirely too spicy. I actually liked it, but Jeff will probably have horrible indigestion the rest of the night. Jaden thought it was okay, but it had such a kick he had […]
Archives for June 2009
Home Economics Curriculum
UPDATE: Unfortunately this curriculum is no longer available for free. But you can still purchase it as an ebook for $16.99. Michelle at Beyond the Silver and the Gold linked to a wonderful home economics curriculum recently. Future Christian Homemakers has their entire home economics book available online as downloadable and printable pdfs. I haven't […]
The Lunch Challenge: Summary and Recipe Link-up
After this last week, I discovered that I'm not too great at making lunches as you'll see in my summary of this lunch challenge week. My lunch-making ability pretty much fell apart toward the end of the week. Monday: Day one was a success; it was easy to prepare and everyone loved the meal. I […]
Menu Plan Monday: The Dinner Challenge
For the last two weeks Amanda and I have challenged each other to cook more for our families, focusing on only one meal per week. The first week it was breakfasts, and last week it was lunches. This coming week our task is to focus on dinners, one meal that I've always had difficulty preparing […]
The Lunch Challenge: Day Five and Six
These last two days have been pretty crazy. You'll see why the Lunch Challenge has been pretty much pushed aside these last two days. Here's the rundown of my frantic weekend. Friday we had Music Camp till noon, then we raced to our friend's house to feed the animals, and then we stopped at Sonic […]
13 Books My Avid-Reader Daughter Highly Recommends (2nd edition)
This second edition of my daughters recommendations may only be the beginning. My 10-year-old daughter reads constantly, so she has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of books she likes. This week I asked her to bring me just 13 more books that she'd like to recommend to my readers. If you missed her first edition of […]