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The benefits of personalized homeschool schedules

Homeschooling offers incredible flexibility.

You can work your childrens school schedule around your spouse’s work schedule, allowing more quality time together. Maybe this means doing school in the afternoons or evenings rather than mornings. You can decide what days each week become your personal ‘weekend’ If a child “operates” better during a typical time of […]

Shish Tawook (Chicken Kabobs)

This is a middle eastern dish that we find to be extremely delicious. While it is mean to be served in a pita with hot cooked rice and toum (that garlic sauce/paste that is often included with just about every middle eastern dish at the restaurants), we find the meat to be delicious as a […]

Toum (Lebanese Garlic Sauce)

Oh, this stuff. We used to live near Dearborn MI) and had easy access to Lebanese food. With every meal came pita bread and the garlic sauce with the mayo-like consistency. There seem to be two varieties (that I noticed – we didn’t eat at every place out there but we did try our fair […]

Pita Bread

I have been making pillowy-soft pita bread for years to accompany the lebanese dishes we enjoy cooking. You can make them large (divide into 4 balls) or small (divide into 8).

Ingredients:

2-1/2 c flour 2tsp salt 1tb sugar 2tsp yeast 2tb olive oil 1c warm water

Method:

By the time you are ready to […]

“Cream Of” Soup Multi-Purpose, Bulk Mix

This is the best mix I have ever used when it comes to the creamy condensed soups. I keep it in a mason jar in my pantry and makes about 8-1 can servings. I am not too wild about the bouillon it contains so we don’t use it too often. I try to splurge for […]

Steak Seasoning

While this is of course awesome on steak, we also love it on chicken and pork chops! When just salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder won’t do….

Ingredients:

1tb ground mustard 2ts garlic powder 2ts salt 2ts black pepper 1ts paprika 1/2 ts thyme 1/2 ts cayenne 1ts onion powder

Method:

Combine seasonings in […]

Blanched, slivered and sliced almonds (At home)

We normally buy whole almonds, but use the sliced and slivered variety so seldom that I never keep them on hand. I was making our favorite oriental chicken salad and instead of just crumbling almonds in the food processor like I sometimes do or making a run into town for a little baggie of slivered […]

Breaded Fried Chicken

I know this isn’t going to be healthy. But it’s good. Every once in a while I pull out the fryer and fry some of this chicken. It can be frozen once fried so you can make up a bunch and use it for chicken nuggets, or to top a oriental chicken […]

Oriental Chicken Salad

If you have ever eaten at Applebees and ordered their oriental salad, this is essentially it. Every time we make it, we feel like we’ve ordered carry out. The fried chicken recipe linked in the ingredients is really key to the whole dish. It took me a long time to find it […]

Honey Almond Chicken

This recipe was one of the first “complicated” recipes I tried soon after I began cooking for real. I say it was complicated because I was used to opening a can of this and adding a packet of that and cooking until done – here I had to actually use real, basic ingredients to create […]