Cooking with a diabetic and a teen

My husband and son have such difference in tastes. I have to practically fix two meals.
Tonight I hit a home run with the lasagna and garlic bread.

Photo from Eatwell101

https://www.eatwell101.com/garlic-butter-keto-bread-recipe

You should try this!

The lasagna used zucchini sliced thinly like lasagna noodles.  So I doubled the meat sauce put zucchini on one side of 13x9 and the whole wheat noodles on the other side. I preferred the zucchini.

Yum!

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Winter gardening blues!

There is about a month that we tear things out of the garden and I sit back morning spring and summer!  During that time I get ready for Christmas for the family. Once the seed magazines start pouring in I can start planning and ordering seeds. My top places I order from are
Baker Seed

And Seed Saviors


I recommend you go check their web it’s out.

Gone skiing

We are in Red River New Mexico. This is our fourth time to travel here. It is not necessarily easily to get here from the Houston area. We usually fly to Amarillo and change planes in Dallas. However a massive thunderstorm caused our plan to be canceled in Houston and missed our flight in Dallas. When a flight opened up we took it to Dallas and rented a car from there and drove to Clayton, NM in the after math of a snow storm. Spent the night and drove to Red River from there. Red River is a small town with really nice people. You get to know the store owners.  There is a New Years Eve torch ski run and fireworks that we look forward to seeing every year. Going skiing!

Christmas Beignets

We have a running tradition of making beignets for breakfast on Christmas morning. It goes back to the year we were married. Four kids later we are still doing it. Our daughter came over for them.

Ingredients:
1 box Cafe Du Monde Beignet Mix
water
1/2 c sugar
3 TBS cinnamon

1. Put 6-8 cups of vegetable oil in pot and heat to near boiling.
2. Pour two cups of mix and 7 oz of war. I double this.
3. Stir until mixed. It will be wet and sticky. Add some extra mix.
4. Prepare a floured surface. I use more of the mix.

5. Pat out until even.

5. Cut with knife or pizza cutter.

6. Test oil by dropping one piece into oil. Dough should pop up to surface. If not hot turn up a little. 7. Dough will turn light brown. Turn over with slotted spoon.

8. When that side is done remove to plate lined with paper towels. 

9. Mix 1/2 c sugar and 3 Tbs cinnamon. 10. After beignets are drained dredge in cinnamon sugar mix.

11. At this point there is a hungry kid of any age waiting to devour them. Repeat procedure. Eventually you will get to eat some.

Merry Christmas!

From the Davis family to you! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Key Lime Pie in the Instant Pot

My daughter, Melissa, and I decided to get together after church today and start cooking for Christmas Eve dinner. She made a low carb, low sugar chocolate chip cookie, and I made the Double Pecan Thumbprints cookie recipe from bon appetite magazine. While she and my husband liked it, I can honestly say its not my favorite. It did taste comparable to the Pecan Sandies that you buy at the store. We also cooked a Key Lime Pie in the instant pot, using the recipe from pressurecookingtoday.com. It is currently in the refrigerator cooling down. I am counting down the hours to sample it.

I enjoyed spending time with my daughter. What desserts are you making for Christmas Dinner? Picture from pinterest.com from Pressure Cooking Today.

Gardening on a city lot

We moved from a half acre lot to less than a 1/3 acre lot in the city. It is definitely easier to maintain here but it has its downfalls. There is not much all day sun. We have a massive pecan in our backyard along with the neighbor’s massive pecan. One whole side of our yard is shaded most of the year.

Even when it’s not, you have to deal with seedlings popping up and small branches dropping on your plants. You are seeing my son’s batting cage above, which is being taken down and sold. I have plans of putting some fruit trees back there.

The branches that get dropped everywhere! We don’t use roundup or amdro in our backyard, but it also means that our neighbors might. We are trying to encourage bees and butterflies but they maybe killing them. My butterfly bush is loaded with honey bees and butterflies in the spring but the bees disappeared in the summer. We have aerial spraying for mosquitos here. In the fall they were so bad that even I was welcoming the spray. I like where we live. It has an in ground sprinkler system which is really handy but forces you to be creative when building raised beds. We accidently put one too close to one of our beds and when it raised up it blasted the garden. How do you deal with gardening in the city?