Secular Homeschooling in Canada
We love our Dadda but he’s not often the teach or show simple things kind of dad. He’s the big hands on “wanna learn to shot a BB gun?” kind of dad most of the time.
This is an excited girl, waiting patiently. (She is trying to find her “true” smile here I guess you would call it.)
We really like apples here. They are always in our fridge, an easy, healthy snack, and they make a great healthy add in. I never thought about adding delicious apples to one of my lest favorite foods, eggs. Scrambled egg might be the perfect breakfast food but my kids and I are still working on liking them.
We have been experimenting a little with cooking and baking with apples like this apple coffee cake recipe, yum.
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As I get older my tastes have changed a lot but I still don’t like eggs all that much. I have tried a lot of different recipes and types but they still are a no go… except I like these.
Scrambled eggs with apple, and a little cinnamon and sugar. I think it’s the sugar that makes the eggs bearable for me.
This is a simple, easy way to make eggs which is my favorite way to cook anything.
What you need:
Dice up an apple, with a Pam covered frying pan toss the apples in and start tenderizing them. After about five minutes sprinkle a little cinnamon and sugar over the apples, stir them around and crack eggs over them.
Now, if you are a great omelet maker/flipper, then by all means have a omelet. But if you’re like me and can’t flip a single egg then have some scrambled with me.
One day I forgot that I was going to be babysitting, therefore didn’t have anything “lunch” to feed all six kids. I made this and it has become a favorite with the kids I babysit and I have made it more often for them. A healthy and easy lunch idea.
This would be an easy breakfast for your kids to make as well. Scrambled eggs in general are easy to make. Eggs and apple is just as easy to make for a sweet breakfast.
Edit it to add:
I have been enjoying eggs more and more, and the ease of making them. One of my favorite ways to enjoy them now is our egg and pepper cups that I make ahead of time for the week.
Slow Cooker French Toast Casserole
I was going through pictures this morning I came across the pictures for this, and couldn’t believe that I hadn’t shared this already. These apple peanut butter wraps are my girls favorite lunch. And they are perfect for Austin to take to school. Make sure to check out the other peanut butter and/or apple recipes that we have.
These wraps are super easy to make. Healthy, getting some protein, fruit and grains in. And, I find they are filling, though there is no filling my children.
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What you need:
All you need is a (large) tortilla, peanut butter and an apple. Spread peanut butter
Top with diced apple, with or without the skin still on. My kids know I don’t peel apples, and I rarely peel potatoes.
Now, roll it up. I tuck the ends in, then roll it up from the side. The edge/side you brought the peanut butter too, roll towards it. The peanut butter will keep it wrapped nice and tight acting like glue.
Now doesn’t that look good?! And it takes no time at all.
Hubby looks at us like we’re crazy when the girls ask for this. Apparently he doesn’t think it looks or sounds as great as it is. His loss.
My daughter’s school is NOT peanut free, in fact there is nothing that they aren’t allowed. At this time there are no allergies in her school… if there were, I would have no issues with it and she’d be taking something different to school, we are NOT going to risk anyone’s child.
UPDATE: We homeschool now so these are a staple in our house!
In honor of back to school I thought I’d share a recipe using apples. This apple and chicken skillet recipe is a taste bud surprise.
With a bag of granny smith apples in my fridge so sour that I can barely eat them with sugar and chicken breast thawing in my fridge I thought I’d experiment in the kitchen. I figured I’d make a meal we all love or we could have been eating peanut butter and jam sandwiches for supper instead.
Start with some oil in a pan, heat on medium-hot then add the chicken breast. Cook chicken breast for 5 minutes on each side, browning then nicely but not cooking them all the way through.
Remove the chicken from the pan to a plate, lower heat to medium and sauté a chopped onion and 3-4 minced garlic cloves for a few minutes then add 2 peeled, cored and sliced apples, 1/4 cup of cider vinegar, 2 tbsp of honey mustard, and a couple tbsp of fresh sage, chopped.
After about five minutes add chicken back into the pan with everything else. Cover with a lid tightly. Let it simmer at low-medium for 10-15 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked.
Remember, don’t go check your email while you are cooking. If you do, then yours will look be a little blacker than it should be. Like mine. While it was a little blacker than it should have been, it was still delicious. Like, OMG good. Hubby was very suspicious of it from the moment I peeled the first apple. But said, a little less burnt and it was definitely a make again meal.
This Apple & Chicken Skillet needs to be on everyone’s menu this summer!
Some Sunday’s call for lazy days, and fatty foods, it’s just the way things go, we’ll call it balance. But when paired with a cup of coffee, this coffee cake make it all perfect. And this cake does make it perfect.
To make it even, take it to a friends for coffee or invite them over, this way you don’t eat the whole thing yourself. Because you will want to. Just like I always want to eat all the coffee cake muffins when I make them.
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What you need:
Start by preheat oven at 350, grease baking dish.
I throw everything but the apples into a large bowl and use my mixer on med-high until completely mixed and then fold in the apples. Pour into greased pan.
When mixing the crumble, use a fork and work it until it resembles coarse crumbs, sprinkle over cake. It takes a bit of working to get it.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Mix the glaze ingredients until smooth, drizzle over cake once the cake has cooled down quite a bit. Let it harden slightly, if you can wait that long. It is amazing cold, but even better served warm.
We have been enjoying this a lot. We’ve brought it to family pot lucks, and shared the recipe with others for them to try it as well. Super easy and delicious.
I personally prefer to leave the glaze off it… I find it almost too sweet, and let’s face it, it’ not the healthiest cake.
Make sure that you also try this coffee cake muffin recipe too. Perfect serving sizes.
