Keep It Fun And Healthy

I hope you like apples because if you don’t you might as well just go to the next blog you follow. I love apples and was so excited when I saw that apples were at the locally grown market. I picked them up and couldn’t stop thinking about what I could do with them all. They gave me so many! I knew I wouldn’t be able to eat them all and need to make something with them.   I’m not a big apple pie fan. In fact I’m not really a pie fan at all unless it’s chocolate. Kyle was talking about these strudels that he used to eat in Germany. He told me it had apples, raisins, and cinnamon and butter in them. I thought I could do something like that and make it a little healthier. So… I attempted it. It was a spur of the moment thing so I went and picked up some pastry sheets already made up. <— Look and my toes peaking out. I love my pedicure this time! I pulled out the ingredients. I used plain greek yogurt, raisin's, pure cane sugar, apples and cinnamon. I cut up about 4 apples ...

Hello all! I’m sorry it’s been a little while since I’ve posted. To be honest, I haven't really been cooking much. It’s a little difficult to chop and cook with a broken finger. The good news is, I got a good report from the doc! The bone is healed and now the hard part, I have to start moving it. I hope it doesn’t take too long. I need my finger back!   On another note I have a great new post to share with you today. As most of you all know I love my veggies from the locally grown market. Well, today I have documented every step for you so you can see how fun it is! The Little Rock Locally Grown market makes it easy to pick up your local fruit, veggies, bread, eggs, meat and much more weekly. You order online the week before and the farmers pick it and bring it to the Christ Episcopal Church every Saturday morning. How cool is that! You know without a doubt that you are getting the freshest produce you can possibly get. And everything is grown right here in the wonderful state ...

Growing up my mom would always can tomatoes and have them in the pantry anytime she needed them. I never knew how handy it was until I started cooking on my own. Sunday night I had a few friends over to can tomatoes! I had been wanting to learn and my mom was gonna teach us.   Canning is a great way to enjoy homegrown foods all year round. I always thought it was a long messy process and I was right! We made a huge mess but had fun learning. I plan to can other things in the future from now on, and why not do it with friends. First we boil water in two canners. This took quite awhile! Then we plopped the tomatoes into the canners. I probably bought about 15 pounds of Arkansas tomatoes. Mom and Lacey also brought a few pounds each as well. We let the tomatoes steep in the water until they were cracked. We then fished the tomato out and placed it in cold water. We then peeled the skin off the whole tomato We had an assembly line going here. After we peeled the skin off we ...