what's for supper tonight?

I am getting so tired of asking that question…

even though I have bought the ingredients for the weeks meals I never seem to feel like eating or making the things I planned… It doesn’t help that I am feeling (and am) very picky on the most part… (no pasta, not too much rice, not too fond of tomato based recipes, not too fond of beans, don’t like bland etc…)

And well…. It has been two weeks now that I just don’t feel like eating meat… at all… so many of the dishes that often made it onto the meal plan are out… which gives me even less to work with… I have been scouring websites and blogs the last few days trying to find things that I feel like eating… but finding things that look good and are easy enough to make when kids need your attention is a bit hard…

And it doesn’t help that the boys are a bit reluctant to try new things… They did like the souvlaki I made last week, but didn’t want to eat the veggie burgers I made last night… though I have to admit that they were a bit dense for me also…
Tonight I am making BBQ seitan with mashed potatoes… we’ll see what they say….

Any meal suggestions out there?
What are your favourites?

along the way…

Yesterday, just as I got the muffins out of the oven I got a call from a friend to go over to her place… So I quickly made a baba ganoush with the eggplants that I already had cooked and waiting in the fridge, got the kids ready and left…

Though it was cold yesterday it was gorgeous… and on the way I decided to take a few pictures…
I was surprised to see a goose still here… it was alone on the river…



My friend lives about an hour away… near Mont St-Hilaire and just near where Simon grew up…
The light is strange in this pic but here is the mountain…


and up close, nearing my friends house…



and along the way from my house to hers, is mostly flat farmland… many of the farms are old and there are so many old barns just waiting to be photographed.. and Yesterday the gold colours of the harvests just stood out…


mmmm… muffins…

This morning I woke up knowing that I had to use my new mixer… So I decided to make some banana-oat chocolate chip muffins for breakfast…

Isn’t it a beauty?


The batter turned out perfectly of course…






3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup butter, melted
chocolate chips (or raisins, nuts etc)

mix wet ingredients in bowl, mix dry ingredients and then add to the wet
bake at 375 for about 20 min



shopping day…

I have been wondering what to get Khéna for his second birthday for a while now…

we have enough toys… I have been wanting to purge toys, not have more…

yesterday I thought of the perfect thing…

Simon agreed…

so this morning I decided to head to IKEA…

I packed the boys into the car and we headed out… we got there at about 10:40 and the boys wanted to go to the playland… but it was only opening at 11… se we waited around a bit and they went in and Khéna and I went shopping a bit.. I don’t go to IKEA much but there is so much cool stuff there and the kids loved the playland…

I got the chair and few more things and we put the things in the car and then headed back in to eat…

Just as we were leaving IKEA I saw that Homesense was right next to it and my pizza stone broke a while back so I thought that since we were there I should pick up a new one… Just across the Aisle from the pizza stones were the mixers so I checked out the one that I have been waiting for (still on backorder) and saw that it was on special at the same price and in stock… so I called Annie for her to look up the number for Sears, called them and cancelled my order and picked up the one that was there… omg… I can’t wait to use it!!! It is now sitting on my counter and just calling for me to bake something!

oh… and Khéna loves his chair…

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