Breakfast for dinner

Everyone loves this concept. Easy for adults- fun for kids! I took the opportunity to upgrade the breakfast by adding a few items I had already chopped in the refrigerator. I often say that if you have veggies chopped already it is so much easier to get them in the meal last-minute.

Soba noodles with Shitakes and Shrimp

Autumn Butternut Soup

Yet another soup was created in our home yesterday. This one with not as much flare as the coconut-lime one, but warming, buttery and smooth. It was rich in a way that warms you on a rainy day, but not too thick. This soup was very easy. I managed to whip it up as I was making my soba noodles with shitake and bok-choy. All together with a salad it was an amazing dinner- and yes, my kids at it.

Pumpkin muffins

I did it! I finally altered a baking recipe and it came out delicious- and healthy too! Most of you know by now that I don’t like to bake. I just cannot seem to leave the recipe as is, even if it does contain ingredients to my liking- and the end result is always disappointing. I have to bring snack to my son’s school on days I co-op, so I wanted to make pumpkin muffins. Of course, as usual, I did find a few recipes I liked, but did not have all of the ingredients. So, I based this recipe on one from Feeding the Whole Family by Cynthia Lair. I made several changes and the muffins came out fantastic- moist and not too sweet. Jasper gobbled up 3 for snack! They were small- and I felt he deserved it as he did make them with me.

Sessa from Maine has questions about organic

I have tried to educate myself on how to read a label on food items and what
different terms mean.  I know there is a difference between the “all
natural” label, the one that claims to be organic, (but only a certain
percentage of the ingredients are), and the USDA Organic label.  It still
gets a little confusing.  Also, if one can’t afford to buy organic exclusively, then which products would you recommend buying organic if you had to choose?  I think you mentioned that when you talked about apples at one
point.  There is just so much info and marketing that consumers are inundated with, it can be overwhelming.  A little help would be greatly appreciated. Also, buying local versus organic…which comes first?