Successful Recipes this week:
- Strawberry cake - YUM!
- Basic 4,3,2,1 cake recipe (4 eggs, 3 cups of flour, 2 cups of sugar, 1 cup of butter), cream butter and sugar together, add eggs one at a time, slowly mix in flour. The bake time will depend on your pans, but I usually stick with 350 degrees for 30 minutes. When your kitchen smells like cake, the cake is usually done baking. Slice strawberries between each layer. Ice with cream cheese frosting (2 blocks of cream cheese, 1 stick of butter, 4 cups of powdered sugar, 1 tbsp of vanilla). This was a perfect summer cake with super ripe and flavorful berries between moist layers of cake and topped with sweet, but not too sweet, cream cheese frosting.
- Salad
- It is so easy to forget how nice it is to have a cool, crisp salad on a hot summer's day. I mixed iceberg with spring mix to add crunch and coolness to our salad. Sliced almonds, dried cranberries, shredded cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, make it a generous and healthful meal.
- Lasagna
- On the complete opposite end of the spectrum as salad, but it's so good and gooey with melted cheese, tomatoe sauce, and ground turkey. I served it with salad and warmed garlic bread. If the oven is on, might as well go all the way with the carbs! This was a surprising success because it filled up all 3 kids with only one serving. That day will go down in history and will probably never repeat itself.
- Snack of the gods
- This is one of those things that I probably shouldn't admit, but it's so good! A local grocery store sells chipotle flavored tortilla chips. I devoured these with a pineapple chipotle salsa. It's amazing! The salsa has big chunks of tomatoes and pineapple, you could almost talk yourself into thinking it was good for you. Everyone has a weakness right? Right!?
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