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Sunday, July 11, 2010

"Slow-Mo" Sunday

This Sunday was just beautiful in many ways, Sophia was at her Nanna's due to the wedding last night so we slept in a pinch and then headed off to check out a new church. LOVED IT at Restoration. We are kind of at a place that we needed a smaller intimate, everyone knows your name kind of church. Also we really want to get in the mix and be a part of something from the ground up and get more involved in service. So for about a month now we have been saying we need to check it out and today just worked out great. It gave us a chance to explore a bit more without having to always keep an eye out for Phi.
Restoration services are held on the Park school campus at 10 am.

So on to the day, we came home and Phi was already waiting there for us. We played a bit outside made a big planter for our deck and down for naps, everyone
As for the meals
Ranch Potatoes
The easiest, cheapest (lazy, not in a bad way, you need that in the summer) thing to bring anywhere in the summer is Salt Potatoes, they are yummy on their own but here is a nice way to zip them up
Ingredients for home made ranch or just buy a good variety:
3/4 C Mayo,1/2 C Buttermilk,dried Parsley, Minced Onion, Salt & Pep, About 2 T of Parm
Mix all together except for Buttermilk, then slowly add Buttermilk, let chill for about 2 hours

Boil salt potatoes with half the salt ( remember cut them in half to make them even in size add them to cold water and bring all to a boil)
Sweat some diced onions (just like us when we sweat, get them hot and stinky (fragrant) but not brown. Chop some garlic scrapes or scallions.
Put them onions and scrapes in a bowl and toss with the cooked potatoes, toss some cheddar in and mix. Add the dressing and carefully mix again till they are the right amount of creaminess to whole potato. (When we ate meat I would garnish with some diced crunchy cooked bacon.

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What to do when your Bananas brown way toooooo fast
Make Banana Nut Muffins
(to make the GF subsitute a GF baking mix for the same amount)
1 1/2 cups pureed ripe banana (3 small, spotty but not mushy)
2c. unbl white wheat flour, 1/2 C Brown rice flower, 2T cornstarch, 1 1/2t baking powder, 1 t baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp ginger 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/4 tsp cloves
1 tsp salt
1/4-1/2 Organic can sugar
3/4 C chopped Walnuts
1 1/3 C Almond Milk + 2 T lemon juice ( I use 1 whole lemon)
1/4 C Sunflower oil
Preheat Oven 375 & Prep pans
Chop nuts, and mix all dry ingred, including the nuts
Mash Bananas, ( love my Bullet Blender)
Pour the wet into the dry and lightly mix just till combined
Scoop into muffin pans ( I use a 1/3 cup cookie scoop from Pampered Chef, its the Kindergarten teacher in me that all my muffins and cupcakes have to be the same size, no fighting over the big one)
Bake for about 18-25 min depending on your oven and how you like your muffins, great batter to make at night and pop in the oven in the morning to wake everyone up with the smell of yummy baking


So enjoy eating and Happy Bellies


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