Around the House

Dinner is Breakfast

Posted on April 21, 2009. Filed under: In the Kitchen | Tags: |

Ok, nothing earth shattering here, but it was a lifesaver (ok, maybe that’s too strong of a word, but as a homeschooler….maybe it was) for me this morning.
I raided the fridge and pulled out some rice and potatoes from dinner yesterday. I scrambled some eggs and added it to the rice (one of our favorite ways [...]

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Banana Bread

Posted on April 4, 2009. Filed under: Recipes |

Looking back at the recent posts, it looks like we’ve been doing some more cooking/baking. Not sure why, but…………… We made some scrumptious banana bread the day before yesterday, using this recipe from Allrecipes.com. (I didn’t have brown sugar so we just used white………….)
 
INGREDIENTS

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 [...]

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Luqma Al Qadi

Posted on April 1, 2009. Filed under: Desserts/Sweets | Tags: |

I first came across these when we were living in Egypt. I saw the recipe on the back of something we had purchased.  They are like little doughnut holes.
Well, we made them yesterday for breakfast and they came out great, masha Allah, so I am passing it on.  For the syrup, being thrifty, I only [...]

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Biscuits

Posted on March 30, 2009. Filed under: Breakfast |

I really hate breakfast time lately. We’ve been trying to scale back from cereal as its expensive (we usually go through two boxes per meal).
Anyway, besides the French toast which I mentioned here previously, another one of our breakfast favorites is biscuits.
Here’s my current favorite recipe for big, fluffy biscuits. I learned to stop being so [...]

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Didn’t you wear that yesterday?

Posted on November 11, 2008. Filed under: Around the House | Tags: , , , , |

Our family is kind of big, and I find that my kids will wear the same clothes day after day after day after day after………
It’s difficult to keep up with everyone and remember what they wore the previous day so from time to time we institute what I call “cycling” (as in cycling through their clothes).  [...]

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