This weekend: Charlotte took her first step! Video and post coming soon.
I learned how to sneak more fiber and less fat into baked goodies. Pureed beans! No seriously, I cooked a bunch of great northern beans with no seasoning, drained them well, and blitzed them in the blender till smooth. You've heard of using bananas in banana bread and applesauce as a replacement for butter/shortening. WEll this works great. Using a straight 1:1 ratio of puree to butter, I made orange cranberry muffins with the bean puree and molasses crinkle cookies as well. Also, I made the molasses cookies with half whole wheat. Since the molasses and brown sugar make it dark, the kids don't know they are getting whole grains and veggies in their cookies. Sadly, my husband couldn't even eat a bite of them. To him, chocolate chip cookies with two cubes of butter are the only thing worth eating. And I can see the wisdom in that. If you only ate two a week, that's fine. But who eats only two a week?
More adventures: Our little peas are growing out in our front flower bed! First time I've ever had a plant survive infancy. We'll see how it goes. WE've had good weather for peas.
