Jackpot!

I asked in this post last week for recipes from you guys (Your suggestions were great!) And this week Shannon at Rocks in My Dryer had a “five ingredients or less” theme for “Works for Me Wednesday!” Her readers left over 300 links to recipes using five or fewer ingredients! So if any of you would like some more easy meals to add to your file, there are plenty there!

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday Photo Quiz

How about this one? A cloud formation, maybe?

Happy Birthday, Daddy!

Maggie dressed up a bit for Daddy’s birthday today. A friend gave us a little container full of baby hair fasteners. Apparently these little barrettes can cling pretty tenaciously even to three hairs, because she’s been wearing it all day. She also cut her first tooth for the occasion. :) Her signature “happy puppy tongue” makes it tough to get a picture, but trust me, it’s there!

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You’ll notice I haven’t included pictures of Sam today. I kept him busy this morning with finger paints while I worked on Austin’s ice cream cake (a recipe from this month’s RealSimple - It uses ice cream sandwiches and takes about ten minutes!). Then I gave him half (too much!) of an ice cream sandwich. Wild under the influence of a sugar-high, he fell on a chair in his room and bonked his forehead. So if I had taken a picture of him today you would have seen: chocolate stuck to his shirt and the corners of his mouth, purple and green streaks in his hair (yes, he put the finger paint in his hair), and a red lump in the middle of his forehead. Seems about right for a 2-year-old boy in the summer. :)

Radiance

In a Raindrop

Saying Hi to Benny

Benny guards the flower shop, threatening tail wags and slobbery kisses to any who dare to cross the threshhold. Sam just loves him.

Will Blog For Recipes

I have a plea for you wonderful and talented readers. I need recipes. But it’s not as easy as you think. I’ve discovered that with cooking, you can get by as long as you have one of these three items: money, time, or talent. I need recipes that require very little of any of these three.

It seems you can be a bad cook with no time, but if you have money, you can afford good quality convenience foods. You can lack money and talent, but have enough time to work through it. Or let’s say you’re short on money and time. If you’re a talented cook, you can come up with something creative and original that saves time and money.

But what if you’re short all three? I’m not saying this is me, but let’s just say hypothetically that I know someone who has no money, no time, and no talent in the kitchen. Got any recipes she might like that don’t include expensive cuts of meat or pricey ingredients, don’t take a lot of prep time, and are suitable for someone who can barely even pronounce “culinary?”

Please? :)

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday Photo Quiz

Another easy one, but isn’t it pretty? :)