Last Month

This is my recipe for last month! I never got around to making what I had intended so I did this. I had some leftover barley (my new favorite thing?) so I combined that with mixed veggies, onion, garlic, Parmesan cheese and a bit of Worcestershire sauce and the black eyed peas. Most of us thought it was good but not great. Owen finished one bowl and said, "more!" So he liked it most:)

The pan/stove combo, frothing, + xtra credit!

I dislike doing dishes so I normally do this in the microwave even though I know scrambled egg(s) taste so much better when you make them on the stove. 

 I too have a frothing device (but I use this and Mr. Coffee quite frequently)

 

Occasionally, I make other stuff: pizza (on a pizza stone, also used somewhat not infrequently) and orzo pasta salad with feta, tomato's & zucchini. Yum!

Chillaxing with Chai

Did I cheat by making this month a tool instead of a food? I feel like somebody else tried to do that once and I said "no, you can't do that." And here I am doing it. Sorry if that happened. This blog doesn't really have rules. Anyways-milk frother! I used this once after I got it for Christmas but I didn't quite understand what step in the Chai process to use the frother so it wasn't that great and I blamed it on the frother. It was me. I took two seconds to look up a Chai recipe this morning though and now I've got it!

Boil 1/4 cup of water and steep chai leaves for 4ish minutes. Warm 3/4 cup of milk and froth it. Add tea and some sweetener (I used honey!). Sprinkle some cinnamon on it to pretend you're fancy. Or if you're pretending to be even fancier-maybe some nutmeg?

Kitchen Tools!

I'm mixing it up this month! Find a kitchen tool that you don't use very often and make something with it!
I haven't done last month's yet but I've known what I was going to make since Mom and Dad told me the ingredient (it's actually the same thing they made but haven't posted...)! It's on my list of things to do!

Black-Eyed Peas Entries!

These were both made in January. We swear.

Here we have Texas caviar. Kim made this at a birthday party for one of the kids once. It was awesome. Making it for black-eyed peas month was a no-brainer.

This is a white bean and kale stew we've made before. It has fennel and potatoes and quinoa and stuff. We used black-eyed peas instead of white beans. It went quick.

It's an honor to have been chosen!

Black-Eyed Peas

Mom and Dad's choice for January!