Carrot Ginger Salad Dressing

"It takes four men to dress a salad: a wise man for the salt, a madman for the pepper, 

a miser for the vinegar, and a spendthrift for the oil."

-Anonymous

Have you eve been to a Japanese Steakhouse and had their salad to start? Normally I would not rave about a simple salad but there is something about the dressing that they have that I have never been able to recreate at home. I finally found a recipe that was close and I tweaked it to fit my taste. I forgot to take pictures of it but will make sure to add them the next time I make it. Also this is a really easy recipe, all you do is dump it in the blender.



Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 20 servings, 45 calories, 3g carbs, 4g fat, 0g protein

Ingredients:

• 1/3 C Canola Oil
• 1/3 C Rice Wine Vinegar
• 2 Large or 10 Baby Carrots
  

Mini Cinnamon Roll Pie Crust Bites

“I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!” 

― Bill Watterson

Let's be honest this is not a healthy recipe but it is a fun snack, breakfast side, or dessert. The kids loved these so much I forgot to take a picture until after they started "chowing down" on these. I love pie crusts, so making a cinnamon roll from them seemed like an easy and logical step.

I couldn't get a picture before Giuliana ate one.

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 9 servings, 284 calories, 41g carbs, 15g fat, 2g protein

Ingredients:

• 2 Pre-Made Pie Crusts
• 4 T Light Butter, Melted
• 2 T Cinnamon
  

Ranch Burger Grill Packets

I didn't have a lot of time to get dinner going and needed a new idea. I had some ground beef and had heard about burger packets before so I thought I would try. Why not? If all else fails we have multiple restaurants close. (Not that we want to eat out.) These turned out nicely and I even had an extra to send for my Father-In-Law to eat since he was not able to make it for dinner.

On a separate note, if you subscribe to follow my blog in the upper right you will get notifications when a new recipe is posted. Additionally, please share the facebook post so I can help build my followers and at some point, these will not only be the recipes that I am making for dinner but also recipes I can experiment in smaller batches before feeding them to my test subjects. :-)

Let's be honest, I am not a food stylist but it tasted really good.

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 6 servings, 227 calories, 16g carbs, 6g fat, 34g protein

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs Lean Ground Beef
• 2 Buttermilk Ranch Packet
• 2 Yukon Gold Potatoes, Sliced to 1/8-1/4" Thick
  

Butternut Squash Fries

We started a garden at our house this year. Only problem being we forgot to label what each plant was when we planted the seedlings. It became a big surprise to us what came up. I thought we had yellow squash growing but it turns out we were growing Butternut Squash really well. The plant has taken up so much of the yard that it has doubled the space our garden is taking up which was already a 15'x15' space. With that happy accident, I decided to try and use the first of what appears will be a plentiful harvest of Butternut Squash. So be prepared for more Butternut Squash Recipes to be coming in the future especially since not much else produced this year.

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 6 servings, 149 calories, 17g carbs, 10g fat, 2g protein

Ingredients:

• 1 Large Butternut Squash
• 1/4 c Canola Oil
• 2 t Cumin
  

Banana Chocolate Pancakes

Giuliana had her first day of Kindergarten this week! The first full day I made these for her and she loved them!!

Nutritional Information (calculated on myfitnesspal.com): 4 servings, 252 calories, 35g carbs, 11g fat, 4g protein

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Banana, Mashed
• 3/4 c Water
• 1 T Maple Syrup

Guess who is back...WE ARE!!

At long last, I am back with new recipes. It has been almost 3 years since I have posted and a lot has happened since then.

1. We moved
2. Our son, Nello, was born
3. Our daughter, Giuliana, is starting kindergarten
4. We celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary
5. I have returned to school to obtain my teaching certificate

I will be going away from posting points values of recipes as I do not have access to a system that can calculate those. If someone does have access to one that can calculate I will be glad to add it. My goal is to create more of my own recipes to share rather than the just sharing other peoples recipes which have been the majority of my posts up to this point. My first recipe will be posted tomorrow. Until then, enjoy a few pictures of my family from the past three years.

Giuliana's Dance Recital 12-2015

Giuliana picked out our cat, Diamond 4-2016

2016 at the Disney Luau

About to jump out of a perfectly good airplane  09-2016

Christmas in Disney World 2016

Nello with his namesake 1-2017

On a morning walk in Vegas 4-2017

Disney 07-2017