Recent Culinary Adventures

As you can see from a few recent posts, I have been spending more time in the kitchen. This is for many reasons:

1) Baby needs to put on a little bit of weight... nothing alarming, just at his last doctor's visit, we discovered that he isn't growing as well as he was previously... so we are going to see if we can get him to eat more. He's just NOT interested in food. Never really was! So, I have been experimenting with different home-made foods to give him more of a nutritional diet. Hubby laughs at me because I have started hiding beans (ground to a powder) in all kinds of baked goods, like the muffins I made today! :-)

2) Spiderman needs to be put on a more restrictive diet. He is having serious allergy issues as well as some behavioral stuff we're hoping that a more natural diet with less additives/preservatives and sugar will help to correct.

3) My life is just too crazy and hectic to try and cook dinner every night. It's just not happening! I teach piano/voice lessons four days a week now and I am teaching four Kindermusik classes a week also... not to mention all the other things we have going on. When to cook?

So... that's why I have turned into a crazy cooker person; who got three cookbooks in the mail today about slow cookers, $5 meals, and super baby foods.... I am sure I will be blogging about my findings!

Update! My Day of Cooking... and of course, therefore, Cleaning!

Today marks the first of what I hope to be my Monthly Freezer Cooking Days!
Today's Menu
Brown Bag Burritos
Meatloaf
Meatloaf Cups
Meatballs
Homemade Refried Beans
Black Bean Salsa Chicken
Homemade Rolls
Sausage/Egg/Cheese Cups
Freezer Waffles
Granola

Status @ 1:00pm: I have made 40 burritos, 1 meatloaf, 36 meatloaf cups, 24 meatballs, a pot of beans is cooking, 4 bags of BBSChicken, the roll dough is rising and the S/E/C Cups... are unfortunately causing me much trouble... more on that later.

Update... so I didn't tackle everything on my list, I got too tired... but I got a lot done! This morning I was able to finish making up the refried beans. That was messy, but I am glad that my blender is self-cleaning! The S/E/C Cups were hard to make! Unfortunately, I wasn't sure about the amount of cups, and so I put way too much biscuit dough inside each cup. Let's just say that the windows had to be opened and the fans going because I got egg all over the oven and, even though I tried to take preemptive measures to keep it all from burning... alas, it was too late and I blew out an eardrum trying to stop the smoke detector.... if I make these again, there will be foil lining the bottom of the oven and I will make them much smaller and fill them with a lot less eggy goodness. Oh well. We ate the meatloaf for dinner. It tasted good, so hopefully the other items made with the same mixture of meat will be good as well!

Got any good recipes for me to try Next Month?! ;-)