yes we can...

Cue up the Obama song by MF. Check out Michelle here! Local Food arrives in DC, and George cheers for NO beets, the prez doesn't like them. If you remember, I posted about it back a ways, and since then, all over the place people are signing petitions to get a portion of the lawn ripped up and a garden in place.

IT'S Happening! And did you read the pieces in Mother Jones yet about our food system?

In other news around here, the leftover pizza dough that I made is now curled around brown sugar and butter and cinnamon in some cinnamon rolls. yum. We are relishing the end of my Saturday morning class and enjoying every second of my spring break. Aren't you proud of me? Three posts in this week. Just imagine how often you'd hear from me if I weren't constantly freaking out about how i was going to fit all this stuff in. ;)

we are going to get some peas in the ground this week, since yesterday was the first day of spring, and it's time to get going on our garden :) yay, can't wait can't wait can't wait.... spring-summer-fall-the extension of our house to all the square footage OUTSIDE! Then our house is HUGE!

Happy kids

Do I need to explain these pictures? This is happiness. A mini trip to Moab is good for the boys.

[and yes I am aware that marshmallows are extruded, probably at high pressure and high heat. But they don't eat marshmallows every day for breakfast!!!!]

If you go to Moab, find this park in the top picture and make music. It is way fun to hear it and be a part of it.

Pancakes save my life

When I am a nice person, in the daytime and I've forgotten about my night, then I make pancakes. With leftover oatmeal and cooked squash, really anything I think can go un-noticed, no really! They are good.
Then I freeze most of them, and the next morning, or the morning after that when I cannot open my eyes because of my night but my youngest is already screaming for food and pulling the sheets off me in bed, I go out, blindly hand him a frozen one, put more in the toaster oven, and that with apple sauce quiets the beast. Until they are gone. By then, I'm usually more functional.

One of my ongoing agree to disagree conversations with George is about cold cereal. I know, yes, the foundation of the modern breakfast. I happen to think it's not really that great for you, and for that I thank Sally Fallon. In any case, since I do the grocery shopping, I don't buy the stuff, and so--pancakes are my response to food fast in the morning.

And before you ask me, I will make my small case that any "food" that has been ground to a pulp, turned into a slurry, had synthetic vitamins added to it, extruded under high pressure and high heat and then coated with any various sweet thing is not in fact food. It may be a food product. It might be trying to be food. It most certainly is no effing whole grain.
My eyes know what whole grains look like. and they don't look like cheerios. End of case.

And now, a deep and wide THANK YOU to those of you who commented. Shucks, you're making me so happy. I know you are checking in and it makes me feel loved. :)