Tommy was super proud of himself. Here's how it went down :) #lemonlickinggood #gowashyourhandsagain
Find this recipe and more information of Food Revolution Day here :
I am in the Netherlands, typing next to Terri at her kitchen table. We are about to start prepping to host her Food Symposium (aka pop-up cookery school) at Fifteen Amsterdam Friday! Here's how she drove me home to her house from the airport: Driving Miss Lindsey
I think this might be my most favorite ambassador smash to date! We miss you and your family dearly & I feel more connected than ever to you this holiday season (even though we are oceans apart)!
Someday, we'll ride bikes side by side and go to your market together just like we went to mine last July. I simply cannot wait to greet your dear friends and experience your part of the world. Until then, let's keep bringing life closer, one recipe at a time!
Much love and Christmas cheers! To the mullies we GO.........
fall + Comfort Food has finally landed in the USA tuuuuuuh-daaaaaaaaaaaay.
it's Jamie Oliver's newest cookbook and i am diving in...
he's the freakin daddio visionary behind the Food Revolution to which i volunteer my lover-ly time.
i decided to write about Jamie's Comfort Food because it's truly all about the food my family really.wants.to.eat and i'm always looking to spice up & improve my family meal plan. i want balls out, ultimate versions of our all-time favorites + brand new go-to's.
these are indulgent recipes i will save for special occasions - weekends, lovely holidays and other fun events where i gather with the people i love to spoil and celebrate with wicked abandon. take a gander at the comfort food hub here for cookbook info and links for new recipes to try out with your kids (i'll be trying every.single.one, so stay tuned). it will have a permanent spot on my open kitchen shelves as comfort food is always on request in the mullies.
CONFESSION: even though taste buds have greatly improved over the past two years, if i stopped cooking, our real food ratio would very well plummet into poo-poo land. yes, that's right... if push came to shove, my husband (who does not cook) and kids would gladly choose fast food over my veggie-laden-pile-fulls-of-love. that's an unfortunate, sad & embarrassing fact jack... so, i have learned to mix in their favorite comfort foods and tweak them with gumption to fit our needs (abbie is still gluten free and i like to cook dairy free). i'm seriously lovin on jamie's top ten easy tips to live by to help this mullies food revolution stay.the.course... for i don't want to lose my little buggers along the way during our crazy culinary adventures.
a balanced, centered kitchen on the power line = more strikeouts
i have found that when i cook from scratch with my kids, no matter what type of food ("healthy" or "indulgent"), it naturally teaches them where the food is coming from and what's in it... nobody is inadvertently eating any hidden, fake food ingredients and i love that!! oh hum... someday, they'll be off to college and i am severely hoping they'll be some nights where they prefer to stay in, gather and cook with friends. oh dear lord please.
so let's get cooking & playing together let's fall in love let's laugh more let's linger longer for some delicious from-scratch-comfort-food that we will never EVAH forget
2 years ago, we used to eat meat almost everyday for dinner (for i have a meat and potatoes type of husband and that's what.he.wants). however, since learning a little more about our food supply and meat industry practices, we do the best we can to eat local, sustainable, organic and humanely raised meat for dinner to 1-2 nights a week and i am cooking up vegetarian and vegan meals the rest of the time.
this lovely article talks about why (if you're not already vegan or vegetarian) it's important for us to become food patriots with our meat: don't have a cow.
looking for a local, sustainable & grass fed meat source lake county?
check out wallace farms - they deliver the liver, loves.
i'm sitting here typing this at my island, in the exact spot i did a blink of an eye ago...
i changed my daughter's diet and it changed the course of everything for her, for me, for us as a family.
best.worst.sliding.door.ever.
and what FUN it has been celebrating two BIG birthdays, two weeks in a row...
i made the latest video last friday, during our one heck of a monsoon rainstorm. i hope it inspires you to get your gumption on and cook with your kids with or without a recipe... start your own kitchen diary TODAY. mine is getting rather full...
i'll be doing my best to put out fun, food revolution content that highlights my mullies quest to teach kids about their fruits and veggies, to teach kids how to cook, to teach myself how to become a better cook and most of all... not to take ourselves too seriously.
...it's the only way to survive a real food revolution.
i'm in it to win it... and i have a looooooong way to go... i'm banking on a solid, good 100 years at it.
cheers to birthdays
to the ever evolving, bumpity pace of growing up
and to gathering with those who light our (b)asses up.
cuz you know i'm all about that bass.
let's go balls.out.together in the food rev and see where we end up!
i've made sweet potato gnocchi before, almost a perfect year ago (why i haven't made for awhile i have no idea)... here is an old post from last june when i made it without the food processor. the food processor sure makes a gorgeous smooth and creamy consistency! my girlfriend briana has a wickedly tasty version that is stuffed with manchego cheese (swoon).
there are so many great gnocci recipes out there and this one here was made with gumption... NO RECIPE OUT! just my memory. no guts no glory. i did not carefully measure anything... so guess what? you don't have to either:)
the mullies sweet potato gnocchi
2 lbs organic sweet potatoes (pierce with a fork and roast whole on a cookie sheet for 45 min at 375)
2 eggs
4 cloves garlic minced
3/4 tsp nutmeg (eyeballed)
1 tsp sea salt (eyeballed)
pinch of white pepper
-wiz above ingredients in a food processor until super smooth and creamy (orangy and luscious). dump in a large bowl and mix in 4 cups gf flour. since it was still too wet, i added around another cup until i got a slightly tacky dough to the touch (5 cups total?). (since there are a lot of flour options out there you just have to go with the feel and touch of the dough.) cover your surface with a dusting of flour, roll out some logs and have a party with your smooshy balls. boil up some salted water. plop them in and when they float to the top, they are done! use a slotted spoon to get them out of the boiling water. it took about three batches.
we made these in the morning, so i placed my cookie sheets in the fridge until dinner time.
fresh sage and ghee sauce
recipe inspo found here
4 T ghee (or grass fed butter)
juice from a half lemon
8 sage leaves from our kitchen garden
melt the oil in a pan for a few minutes (i heated it up for too long and had a volcano of hot lava spitting at me... don't do that). remove from heat and add the leaves and lemon juice. pour over the smooshy balls and mix it all up nice and pretty.
season with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. topped it off with some lovely raw, 12 month old manchego (sheep's) cheese.
the mullies kitchen diaries = cooking with my family and friends. the plethora of cookbooks, the massive culinary talent and inspiration out there is mine to experiment with and learn from... i'll never run out of material with jamie and his foodtube & drinkstube out there:) the global food revolution is my home and my niche is testing out sweet recipes, sharing the moments, the loveliness of cooking with your kids... the hilarity, the music, the pain.in.the.ass.moments which capture the reality of us, of the current generation of parents getting back into our kitchens and the massive task teaching our kids to do the same. i am a food patriot and i hope to help bring back the energy, the spark and the enjoyment (+ frustrations) of "from scratch cooking" mixed in with the grocery shopping, the adventures in gardening and the escapades of eating out.
and with that said...
here's how dinner turned out!
my parents brought over freshly grilled fish and white wine. i made my grandma millie's cucumber salad and roasted broccoli (a fam favorite). above is a picture capturing tommy scooping up his 3rd helping. did he eat more because he made it with me or because the gnocchi was just.that.good? i think it was a little of both;) it's so fun to eat smooshy balls!
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after dinner, the boys made these for me. it's made the foodmatrix we've escaped from so very worth it... so.very.lovely.indeed.
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next up, my visit to a student showcase with the food patriots. i have never been more inspired by food education and what could be in store for our lake county schools!!
i learned a lot about myself and technology on #mypancakeday.
tip: never EVER upload your photos and videos to your computer AND delete them from your phone before you upload your sweet imovie to youtube or dropbox.
dropbox saved my arse today. i literally drop kicked myself to the face a few times... cuz little did i know, once you delete videos from your iphone, you can't get them back on so easily...
you know that feeling when you spend all night on a final term paper and then your computer crashes?
chocolate pancakes with raspberries and chocolate chippies
gluten and dairy free
1 cup gf flour (just eyeball it in a mug... thanks for the tip dj bbq and jamie!)
1 cup rice milk + coconut milk (eyeballs)
1 organic, pasture raised egg
1/3 c raw cacao powder
1 T baking powder
1/2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
heaping T of coconut sugar (or whatever sugar you have on hand)
2 heaping scoops of homemade coconut yogurt (this is optional... use any plain yogurt you want!)
mix it all up and add more rice milk if you want thinner batter! top it off with fresh or frozen (thawed) raspberries and your favorite "clean" chocolate chips!
i can't wait to see what all the ambassadors across the globe are whipping up today...
i am exhausted yet so happy that i was able to get our pancake festivas back... i didn'tgive up on it.
unleash your inner-cook you wild stallion you! i was navigating around the foodday.org site and found a free cooking class link here. i was floored to find it available to all and will definitely be checking it out.
needless to say, dinner was a slam DUNK. below i have included my gluten and dairy free recipe adaptations from the amazing food day cookbook (that is where you'll find the three original recipes we chose to whip up - i have not included the recipe directions as the interweb is running out of ink and i really want you to see the cookbook. HA!).
i hope you like cooking and eating the recipes as much as we did.
**warning** before embarking on any cooking tonight, please fasten your aprons securely and play this musicimmediately. feel free to show the children how to dance properly (running man please). pump up your jams and let the cooking partay begin. quick tostados
(we doubled this recipe!)
1 T coconut oil
2 cloves garlic
2 cartons black beans
1/4 tsp salt
2 c cooked shredded organic chicken breast
6 c shredded romaine
1/4 c sheeps milk yogurt (sweet arse replacement for sour cream... not dairy free, only cow free)
gf tortilla chips/tostados/tortillas
3 avocado diced (we love to eat these pupppies)
1/2 c organic shredded cheese (we also served vegan "daiya" cheese)
1/2 c chopped cilantro
carrot, sweet potato & ginger soup
(the surprise recipestar of the evening)
2 T coconut oil
1 lb carrots
1 lb sweet potatoes
1 bunch scallions sliced
1/2 c chopped celery
1 garlic clove minced/grated
1 T chopped peeled fresh ginger
1 tsp sea salt
4 T chopped fresh cilantro
1 T fresh lime juice
6 oz baby bok choy, stem ends trimmed, cut into 1/2 in slices apple crisp
(this was completely prepared by our two 7th grade cooks, sarah and thea!)
toppings
1/3 c gf old fashioned oats
1/2 c gf flour
1/4 c chopped almonds
2 T almond flour
1/4 c coconut palm sugar
3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/8 tsp salt
1 T cold coconut oil, cut into pieces
2 T melted coconut oil
1 -2 T cold water
filling
9 apples
1/4 c fresh organic lemon juice
3 T maple syrup
2 T gf flour
wish me luck, i'm off to pass out 1300 apples to the students here in district 76 for our big apple crunch! i wonder how many loose front teeth will be lost today in apples... or if my swagger van will ever lose the sweet smell... :)
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH
xoxo
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need more food day inspo!? go back in time with our first mullies cooking class and then to our suit and tie party. so what if you get your kitchen messy. i don't have a fruit fly problem at all. nope.
i have been keeping tabs on jamie oliver & uncle ben's search for a food tube contest and wanted to write one.more.post as it is wrapping up today!
abbie and i just watched finalist amber kelley's latest video together on the couch. as soon as it was over, she wanted to watch another and excitedly asked, "mom, can i help you make breakfast today!?" now that's what i'm talking bout!!!! no lecturing or nagging from mom needed after you watch this little star.
so who is going to be the next food tube star!? there is no doubt that felicitas pizzaro is on the road to victory. she's kicking bootie with over 14,000 likes for her fabulous video. i am looking forward to seeing her on the food tube cuz she "had me at merlot too"!!!
in honor of this super fun contest wrapping up today, paul (the superman behind my entry) and i wanted to extend a little gift out there to anyone who would like help in creating a Visual Keepsakes montage for the upcoming holidays (gulp, yes they are coming...) or just because you want to! here is link to one of his family's montages that gives me the tinglies everytime. i hope it'll get your creative juices flowing for what he could create for you and yours. a summer sports recap, vacation memories, a birthday or an anniversary gift... the sky is the limit, right?! in case you did not get a chance to see the other videos he has done for me in the mullies, here they are: a mullies cooking class & a mullies suit and tie cooking party. we watch them over and over and over...
Visual Keepsakes would like to offer any mullies readers 10% off a video creation. basic photo montages start at $50 and videos start at $75. pretty rad huh?
Paul Molidor
630.697.1180
paulmolidor@gmail.com
just tell him i sent ya.
congratulations to the five finalists, high fives to felicitas for smashing it and i hope you love the food tube as much as we do!! i am particularly loving the new save with jamie videos. save some $$$ and save your belly... yes please, may i have another?
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