The Fighter's

We're experimenting here in the Fighter home - working on changing taste buds.  Less of this stuff... And more of this stuff... My goal for our pantry and fridge this year is to try and get back to some of the basics.  We threw out most ( not all :-)) of our sugary, processed foods - and have been trying to fill the shelves with foods made from basic natural ingredients.  It's been fun!  The past few weekends I made my first loaves of yeast bread - tried two different recipes for honey wheat bread - the second batch (above) came out much better than the first!  All it took was a little bit of unbleached/whole wheat flour, honey, real butter, eggs, yeast, water, real sugar, some kneading and rising, an oven and whola!  I've also been doing homemade banana bread and muffins for breakfast, bought a waffle maker so we can make waffles from scratch (which has been fun for the girls), and tonight - I made my own pizza crust with homemade ...

Nothing more comforting than popsicles and snuggles with dad... What a week/weekend!  All four of us girls were sick - first with a nasty head cold...then Ava, Kate & Olivia came down with a stomach bug.  We were thankful when Doug returned from Arkansas to take care of us.    Here's to kleenex, buckets, popsicles, washing machines, movies on TV, PJ's, Motrin and some much needed down time to help make us better!!