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Smart Mama recipes, food items and more!
Spooky Peanut Butter Eyeballs Recipe for Halloween
Halloween dessert just got spookier! Here’s a great treat that I have made for Halloween! They are such a hit! The look is great, the taste and unbelievable and they truly are fairly easy to make! Spooky Peanut Butter Eyeballs 1 cup smooth peanut butter 2 tbsp. butter, softened 2 cups powdered sugar 1 tsp. […]
Got Milk for Breakfast? I Did at BlogHer and My Daughter Did at Home!
You know I love milk. Whether it’s skim, chocolate or yummy Simply Smart, I have at least a glass a day. The glass typically gets mixed in with my morning cereal. Yes, I’m a cereal person. I know that there are many more of you out there. I could eat cereal for breakfast, lunch and […]
Smart Food: Delve into 12 – the Giveaway!
Seafood during pregnancy, it’s considered a must by many OBs. What does your doctor say? What a week it has been! We found ways in this Smarty Pants Mama household to include seafood in 2 dinners, plus a few lunches! My daughter even tried, and enjoyed scallops for the first time! We are told by […]
Smart Food: Tasty Tilapia Tacos
As we each continue to Delve into 12 this week, attempting to consume 12 ounces of seafood, I wanted to share a favorite taco recipe. This recipe, as well as many others, are part of the awesome Delve into 12 gift basket that will offered as a giveaway next week! Be sure to share a […]
Smart Food: Delve into 12, Consuming 12 oz of Seafood a Week!
[ad#Google in Content] Fish Tacos, Ceviche, Tuna Salad, Baked Halibut, Linguine with Clam Sauce, Pasta with Shrimp…all are delicious. Do you make them? Are they ever part of your family’s weekly menu? Do you know that many of these meals take as much time and often less time that the traditional spaghetti and meatballs or […]
Smart Food: Jimmy D’s Griddle Sticks w/giveaway
Mommy, can I have a pancake on a popsicle? Bet your child didn’t ask you that this morning! Jimmy Dean has created what I consider a mother’s solution to eating on the run, the Jimmy D’s Griddle Stick! This pancake on a stick has a delicious turkey sausage in the middle. After just 60 seconds […]
Smart Food: Simply Smart Cheddar Chive Mini Muffins
Are you wondering what is Hood Simply Smart Milk? I was. Here’s what I found out: Hood found an innovative, natural technique called ultra filtration to remove some of the water that makes lowfat milk look and taste watery. The result is simply delicious milk rich in nutrition and taste. Simply Smart: All the taste, […]
Smart Home: Double the Math Lesson Making Zucchini Strips!
I wanted to make these delicious sounding zucchini strips I saw on SkinnyTaste.com. It was a rainy Wednesday afternoon. My daughter had been in school all morning and then refused to nap. You know the kind of day I’m talking about. She wanted to “help” me in the kitchen. I figured why not. It was […]
Chocolate Angel Food Cake Recipe
Guest Poster: Gigi from KludgyMom.com This week I welcome Gigi, a stay at home mom who parents, cooks and lives haphazardly! She blogs about it all at http://www.kludgymom.com I love the delicate, spongy, low-fat goodness that is an angel food cake. Why not make a chocolate one? I tried making my first angel food cake this […]
Smart Food: Cashew Chicken, compliments of Kludgy Mom
[ad#Google in Content] Guest Poster: Gigi from KludgyMom.com This week I welcome Gigi, a stay at home mom who parents, cooks and lives haphazardly! She blogs about it all at http://www.kludgymom.com Straight out of Martha Stewart’s Great Food Fast is this recipe for cashew chicken. I am still a stir-fry novice; I’ve made some with flank […]
Salmon with Vanilla Balsamic Marinade using Vanilla Bean Paste
Salmon with Vanilla Balsamic Marinade using Vanilla Bean Paste I have a new secret ingredient! It’s what Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing to the United States in the late 1700s. Vanilla! I was recently provided with a bottle of Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste to try. Are you wondering exactly what is […]
Smart Food: Chicken with Apricots
[ad#Google in Content] Here’s a recipe that’s fairly easy and healthy! I have included nutritional information below. Chicken with Apricots ~ Serves 4 Pecan halves, 2 oz 2 teaspoons of margarine 3 ripe apricots, quartered and pitted 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil 4, 4 oz chicken breast halves Salt & freshly ground pepper […]
Sliced Summer Fruits with Mango Puree
Mango Puree Make this mango puree as an accompaniment for those hot summer months. You can serve it as suggested below atop sliced summer fruits or add it as a topping for ice cream. Either way it is absolutely delicious. Sliced Summer Fruits with Mango Puree 1 mango 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice Pinch of cayenne […]
Smart Food: Buffalo Melt ala Vlasic Pickle Style! (Plus win $1000 for a Pickle idea!)
Ever wonder what’s another way to use the yummy Vlasic Stacker Pickles in your fridge? I’m sure! Well here’s a recipe for a glorified meatloaf sandwich I came across and I couldn’t stop drooling! As the recipe stands, it wins no award for great nutrition, however a few tweaks and it can turn into a […]
Smart Food: Great Recipes for Memorial Day Weekend!
Here are some great recipes provided by Wellspring Camps, the nations leading weight loss organization, that you won’t feel guilty about indulging in! Black Bean Dip Serving Size: 2 Tbsp 1 -15 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed 1 small can green chilies 1 cup salsa 2 cloves garlic 1/2 tsp cumin optional: 1/4- […]
Vegetarian Bowties with Eggplant and Portobellos
Bowties with Eggplant and Portobellos is a fantastic vegetarian pasta dish, ideally using organic ingredients for the best taste. I made this last night and it was DELICIOUS! It’s a fairly easy recipe. It would make a great dish for a dinner party! It’s super colorful and plates well! Let me know what you think. […]
It’s all in the presentation! Sushi Restaurant = GREAT Kids Meal!
What a great surprise last week when we ordered a chicken and rice dish at a new sushi restaurant! I’m sure you’re not surprised that my little 3 1/2 year old LOVED it! Now I need to get myself a boat to keep in the cupboard, because guess what? She certainly didn’t argue about eating, […]
Zucchini Soup Recipe
Make Zucchini Soup for the family! With organic zucchini in the drawer from last week’s produce pick up, I needed to find a yummy recipe! (I have a pretty standard recipe I typically follow with zucchini but getting bored with that one – you know what I mean!) I came across this recipe in the […]
Name the Vegetable! What did I slice and bake last week?
GPXTGRWP52VT Continuing our Food Revolution…I have been using all sorts of different fruits and veggies in my cooking. (Many thanks to my produce club subscription – Annie’s Organic Produce Buying Club.) Well, this week we received something that I certainly had never heard, seen or tasted before. What do you think it is? I’ll let you know that it […]
Food Revolution – Playing with Knives!
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution has inspired us all, especially in this house. One battle we took on since the show’s premier is teaching my 3 1/2 year old to use a knife. Certainly wasn’t as hard as we feared! If you remember, the elementary school in West Virginia thought Jamie was out of his mind […]
Whole Foods, the one with the shopping cart!
I’m thinking most kids love toy stores, right? Not in this house. I can’t say that she doesn’t love them. We honestly haven’t really been in one all that often. (We had an unfortunate incident happen at our local toy store a few years ago and we haven’t step foot inside since then.) However, […]
Grilled Eggplant
Yummy! I love eggplant. One of my favorite dishes is eggplant parmesan. That’s a recipe for another day. Here is a simple way to make eggplant and keep the calories in check. Grilled Eggplant – ala George Forman Ingredients 1 large eggplant 1/2 cup of olive oil 3 large cloves of garlic minced In a […]
Smart Food – The organics have arrived!
The loot has arrived! Monday afternoon little Isa and I picked up our 2 large bags of organic, and much local, produce! Oh yummy! This is what I now have in my kitchen: LOCAL Fl Strawberries Blueberries Fair Trade Bananas Golden Sweet Pineapple Cauliflower Lacinato Kale Leafy Lettuce Roma Tomatoes LOCAL FL Cabbage LOCAL FL […]
Out of the graveyard – the George Foreman!!!!
Look what was unearthed tonight? The ridiculously large and PAIN to clean George Foreman Grill! I know you have one too. Who doesn’t? This isn’t my first. I originally owned, during my bachlorette days the more standard size. But the moment I was let loose with the bridal registry gun in hand I was certain […]
This Week’s Produce and Some Yummy Recipes
My produce of the week: · Strawberries· Blueberries· Mangos· Bananas· Spinach· Broccolini – Baby Broccoli· Eggplant· Rainbow Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes· Onions· Garlic· Green Leaf Lettuce· Avocados· Beet Roots· Cucumbers· Broccoli How would you use these? I’m especially interested in the beets. You can’t see them too well in this photograph but there are 3 large […]
CoolWhip won the challenge…what to do with over 2lbs of strawberries!
Thanks for the great encouragement to do something yummy with the lot of strawberries we picked earlier in the week. I had really wanted to make jam, however, the CoolWhip container won! Yes, we enjoyed nearly every last strawberry dunked into CoolWhip. Oh, how yummy!
