Adobo Chicken Tacos

This was from May's Cooking Light. Adobo Chicken Tacos with Avocado Cream, Slaw and Mexican Rice. It was really good. Jon really liked it and the kids thought it was too spicy. It is sometimes hard cooking for people who think that all Mommies whip this kind of stuff up on a weeknight, but my saving grace is I love food and in the long run, I think I am creating food lovers...we shall see!

Broccoli from the garden

We harvested our first florets and enjoyed them as an appetizer with ranch....everything just tastes better when you grow it yourself!

Natual Birth Control

Don't worry, I am not risking my sanity by trying natural family planning. I have a 3 year old and these days that is enough birth control to last a lifetime.

Aside from the newborn stage where you never know whether you will sleep again, 3 year olds are one of the most difficult stages of parenting for me and Luke is a raging 3 year old.

Three year olds are very difficult to reason with and Luke is no exception. Today, he told me that he didn't like me because I refused to let him wear his Batman raincoat out and about with nothing but Batman underwear underneath. He told me that EVERYONE else does this!

At least I know it's a phase...if he wants to wear the raincoat with underwear for his wedding, that will no longer be my problem.

What is on your bucket list?

I am currently trying to convince my Dad that on his bucket list, is going to London to watch the Bears play with his daughter...of course this is if the powers that be decide there is an NFL season.:)

The NBA will be thrilled...

that we are able to get our kids into a quick bath after dinner with the promise of at least 1 quarter of NBA playoff basketball. They love ending the day snuggling with Dad and watching basketball.

Dinner Tonight

I know it seems like a cop out with little kids and a hectic schedule, but I really have come to feel that really simple food with amazing ingredients is so much more flavorful than a complicated 50 ingredient dish. I do love making intricate recipes for special occasions, but at the end of the day I will take something that is simple with very few fresh ingredients.

Tonight, we had soccer practice till 6:30, so I was looking for something easy. This is from Ina Gartens' new cookbook How Easy Is That. She was inspired by the simple food in Belgium for this one. It is tuna in toasted sourdough with hummus and radishes. The tuna is made with Italian tuna in EVOO...such a huge difference.

It was light and delicious, but still filling enough for a warm spring night.

April In Texas

That's the sprinkler on behind them...

It was snowing in the Midwest this weekend and so is why I live with all the downsides of Texas! I love warm weather:).