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Sample of one of our grab bags!
I love to cook and baking is my favorite type of cooking. Yesterday night I had a chance to finally look through a new cookbook I got for Christmas from my parents. I found this amazing dessert. Lemon Pudding Cake, it had the makings of an epic dessert so I ran outside and grabbed about a dozen lemons off our tree, it didn’t take all 12 but almost! The recipe was super easy to follow and it really only took about 10 minutes of prep time. I think what I loved most about this is that it was a perfect marriage between sweet/satisfying and sour/refreshing. This I’m sure will become one of our go to desserts as it’s super quick and our lemon tree is constantly filled lemons. Scroll down to find the best Lemon Pudding Cake ever! I had to add a picture and since I was too excited to focus the camera last night I thought I’d show you someone who really enjoyed the cake, and apparently butter too!
Lemon Pudding Cake
4 egg whites, beaten stiff but not dry (think almost meringue but still a little wet under all that fluff)
4 egg yolks
2 tablespoons of butter
3/4 cup sugar
4 tablespoons flour
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice (I’m guessing you could use the stuff out of the bottle thing too)
1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
2 cups light cream or milk (I used milk and it was still heavenly!)
Place a rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Butter either a 1 quart ceramic souffle dish or a 9X13 glass pan. You will also need a larger ungreased 10X15 pan to use during the baking process. You will need boiling water for the water bath.
Separate the eggs and beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Set aside. Cream the butter until light, and then add the sugar and flour and beat until light and fluffy. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the lemon juice, zest and light cream. Mix together. Fold in 1/4 of the beaten egg whites and mix to ligthen, then slowly fold the remaining egg whites in, be careful not to over mix. Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish, our boiling water into the larger pan to a depth of at least 1 inch. Set the baking dish with the cake inside the large pan and place in the oven.
Bake for about 1 hour, or until the top is golden brown, the center is just set, and the top springs back when pushed lightly with your hand. Let the cake cool on a rack for 10 minutes. Serve warm. It’s also beyond amazing cold the next morning, if it makes it that far!
This recipe is from http://www.bishopsranch.org/cookbook.html Written by Elizabeth Schmidt & Ariel Ross.
We are looking to reach 200 fans on our facebook page by the end of February. If we do reach our goal I will be giving away 4 of our crib sheets. Yes all of our crib sheets are organic, there is limited color so the first person to respond will have their color choice. Please spread the word. Our facebook page is a great way to hear about all of our new products, giveaways and deals that we have going on.
There is a direct link to our page at the bottom of the blog, it’s that easy.
Thanks everyone!!!!
Here are some of the newest products and designs from Green as Wee Grow. We will be getting new pictures soon, but couldn’t wait that long to share!
Both the bird and giraffe are avaialable in long sleeve pink & white and short sleeve sage. I will be getting these up and on the site as soon as possible.
Earth Tree is available in long sleeve white onsie and our girls T, sage color. All the art work is done by Stephanie Corfee
The dress below is adorable and comes with chocolate brown bloomers! This picture doesn’t do the colors justice! Looking forward to sharing the rest of our little surprises soon!
It’s the holiday season and Green as Wee Grow is feeling a little extra giving.
For every 10 new FB friends we will give away 1 item. Winner will be picked at random and announced here and on FB.
Winner will get to pick size and choose a color, the style is mine to pick.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Green-as-Wee-Grow/102668877811
Everyone will have a chance to win.
Spread the word and keep an eye out for more freebies and great deals!!!
I’m at 135 now!
Good while supplies last
I couldn’t take it any more and about 2 weeks ago I sent an email to everyone in B’s class. I was having an off day and I picked B up from school and asked her how school was. She said fine, we had salami and gogurt again for snack. That was it. Everyday since the first day of school she had been fed salami and gogurt for snack.
I went home and wrote this letter:
To my complete surprise the whole school did a 180 on snack and things have been great. There were a lot of emails sent in response to mine about how a change was in desperate need. I know that we aren’t feeding them only organic, but fresh and natural is a huge step forward from packaged and processed. I figure a few snacks every week is ok since she eats only organic at home. Also for those of you who wonder about processed food and why it’s so bad. I will let you know that once the school started serving less processed foods B had a much better attitude and her moodiness all but disappeared.
I just wanted to give a little update as to what happened with this big issue for us.
If you have an issue with something that is directly related to your child speak up! I wish I had done this earlier.
We are in the second year of preschool for our oldest daughter, B, I love the school we have picked and I know that she loves going there. I have one small issue with this school and I don’t know if it’s just me being overly green and crunchy. It’s group snack. I know crazy, but every school day one parent is responsible for bringing a snack for the whole class. I have found that we are one of only 4 families that eat organic. What does this mean, well salami, gogurt, goldfish crackers and un-organic grapes, apples and strawberries are served as a regular snack favorite. I knew that B would be exposed to different foods in school and I even thought really hard about packing her a snack everyday just for her. My issue came with at what point am I the crazy mom who won’t let her kids, without food allergies, eat the snack that others bring? Let me put this quick little side note out there too. I don’t eat potluck food or most things that people bring places to share I never have I doubt I ever will. I just prefer that I know what your kitchen looks like before I eat what your serving. Anyway back to preschool
I opted out of sending her to school with her own snack and let her take part in school snack like all the other kids. I’m now wondering if I made the right choice. If you have ever seen gogurt you know why. This stuff is disgusting and it comes in the most unnatural color blue on the planet. I’m pretty sure they put some sort of additive in there that makes the kids addicted to it, because these kids will eat 2-3 if you let them. I have told B that she isn’t allowed to have them anymore. I just couldn’t sit there and watch as she sucked this nasty stuff from a tube. I convinced her that the yogurt, you know Yogurt with a Y, at home was much better. First word out of her mouth when I opened the yogurt for her was, this looks a lot tastier than the other stuff. Even a 3 year old knows that things that blue can’t taste good. Yes she’s had a lot of yogurt, but as she got older she preferred cheese to yogurt. I try to give her a lot of variety of food so not a lot of one type of food is an option. OK I put my food down with the gogurt, which I’m very proud to say she’s OK with and is actually following this rule. Am I being crazy?
What do you think is giving your kids a little taste of the non-natural OK or should/do you strive for complete organic/natural food. I’m having a hard time with this. I know that once she gets to kindergarten that I’ll have control over what I send her to school with, wether she trades with another kid is to be deteremined later.
What’s the balance that you’ve found for your family or yourself. Do you cheat and just realize that the majority of people still don’t eat organic and you just do the best under your own roof or do you find yourself bringing your own food to functions in order to maintain your organic diet.
I love cooking shows and most shows that have to do with food, but I’ve become so disgusted by the over eating challenges. I look at the 24lb burger challenge, yes that’s a real challenge, and think what a waste of food & life and for what? Does anyone need that much beef, or any food for that matter in their system? What is the reason for this craze? Maybe the 80′s movie The Great Outdoors had something to do with it, but I somehow doubt it. I really don’t see how your stomach could ever forgive you for shoving that much food into it. Not all of the challenges are mass quantities some of them are trying to melt your face right off your head.
I won’t lie, I find the super hot food challenges rather amusing, mostly because I loath spicy food and just don’t understand how these people can even start to survive the pain. There have been a lot of the spicy food challenges, but it seems to be the main event always has to do with some form of beef. The top food challenges, that I’ve seen, mostly have to do with large quantities of beef product, milk product and then spice and peppers. I know this isn’t really dealing with anything green, but it is!
Being green isn’t just about buying organic or cleaning with vinegar, it’s also about limiting or really figuring out your needs vs. your wants. I don’t mean that people that are green never go shopping or get things that they want, but it’s about limiting your excess. It’s also about using our resources in a responsible manor and reducing what we don’t use. Eating mass quantities of food for no reason other than to see if you can is the epitome of waste. Most of the challenges give one person enough food to feed a family of 4 or more in some cases. The waste from this food is so disturbing. I’m assuming that most people are taking the leftovers home, but really if you just forced your stomach to grow in size because you’ve shoved so much food in it are you going to eat that same food the next day?
I really think that there are so many things wrong with shows like these, which is why I don’t watch them anymore, but my main issue is just the amount of waste it produces and the natural resources it takes for one person to eat enough for 4. I’d love to hear what you think of these types of shows or if you’ve ever seen one.
Picture from I bet you won’t
My goal for tonight is to have enough time to make a serious reading dent in the amount of people that take part in this blog hop! I know that everyone that participates is worth following so I’m slacking and need to get moving and start following.
There’s tons of things going on right around this time of year. One of the big ones is school starts, most people are already back at school but B just started. B is in her 2nd year of preschool and although she doesn’t pack a lunch, she’s only there a few hours in the afternoon, I have already started thinking of ways to keep her “cool” while still being green with her lunch. It’s inevitable that kids will swap things from their lunch for something in someone elses lunch. It’s part of the whole learning process. I don’t want B to be that kid who no one wants to swap lunches with, but I refuse to have her be the kid who’s mom packs packaged food that could be used in some sort of bomb shelter. I think I’ve figured out a pretty happy medium, in my head of course.
Bargaining food, OK organic food has come along way since I first started going organic, a lot of it has to do with brands like Newman’s Own & Annies products, these are two brands of packaged foods I don’t mind buying. I love the Newman’s Own “oreo” type cookie, when I’m feeling like a treat. Annie’s makes amazing fruit snacks that you can buy in bulk, added bonus! Other than these products I really don’t buy packaged foods. I think that by giving B something that looks like the Dora type fruit snacks or the oreos she will feel like she isn’t doing anything different, but for me I’ll know that she isn’t consuming a ton of preservatives or hydrogenated oils. The other things are obvious to send, carrots, apples, broccoli (my kid loves raw broccoli). I can even send her with an Honest Kids juice box, it’s organic and only contains 10g of sugar, and it looks like a caprice sun.
The hardest thing for me is the sandwich, or something with substance. B loves cheese sandwiches, although lately she wants a cheese sandwich without the cheese. I have a hard time sending anything dairy, egg or any combo of that to school. The idea of her eating something that has been sitting out really freaks me out! So what about a Newmans Own, or Trader Joe’s pizza that was cooked the night before? They are both a thin crust pizza with a relatively good ingredient list. The cheese is already cooked and they travel well, they are already squashed and small. Obviously you can’t really send pizza everyday, but once in awhile why not. Other ideas? I’m working on them. Peanut butter and banana tortilla wrap MMM, easy and you don’t have to worry about it getting hot and gross, hot and gooey yes.
All these ideas of going green and you still need something to put them in. Nothing could be more fun for a kid than items from this blog I did awhile ago http://www.greenasweegrow.com/blog/?p=622, these plastic alternatives are washable and easy to use for all sorts of items. Obviously a lunch box is a great investment there are so many to choose from it really depends on what your looking for. All of them will be a better alternative than buying paper bags to send to school. The older kids will probably prefer a simple lunch sack, Nubius Organics has a great selection of Eco friendly lunch on the go items. While the younger ones might really like a lunch box that has a little more “style” to it, check out Gator Tots. The last thing that I’ve been thinking is that the amount of paper products used in schools is crazy! What if you send a cute napkin to school with your child. They could use the napkin to wipe their face and hands without using any paper products.
I know a lot of the things that I’ve mentioned require making sure your child brings them home and then once it’s home you have to clean it and get it ready to be used again. Really thought if you think about how many paper napkins, plastic bags and paper bags are thrown away each day in our school systems, don’t you think that making a small sacrifice is doable? What are your going back to school green secrets?