2015 Lunches 46-58 #TakeitTuesday

Lots of lunches to share today! How is lunch packing going for you? It's going well here. Some of these are last years lunches that I hadn't gotten around to blogging yet. If you have any lunch packing questions let me know what they are and I'll try my best to answer them for you. Leave a comment below!

Super Strawberry Cake and Shakes!

Is it strawberry season yet? I can't wait! I enjoy strawberries just by themselves. But I also think they are fantastic in this cake, which also has pureed strawberries in the batter. I also chopped strawberries and put them in the middle frosting layer.
Strawberry Freezer Jam is something DH grew up on. I haven't made it in ages!

Diva makes a mean Strawberry White Chocolate Milkshake too.
How do you enjoy your strawberries? What's your favorite Summer fruit?

I haven't blogged this cake, but I just took a vanilla cake recipe. Added strawberries and a tiny bit of strawberry flavoring. :) 

Strawberry White Chocolate Milk Shake

I'm here!

I have bentos and recipes to blog! I'm working on a huge order, but if you want to check out the facebook page HERE.  I just put up some bentos real quick, if not I'll be posting them here soon. Thanks!

But for now here are pictures of recipes that will be coming up soon!

Bread made with the Tang Zhong starter.

Basa in parchment. Same as the Tilapia different fish, different veggies.

Piglet helped me make pizza.

Pumpkin bread made from a Amish Friendship bread starter.

Red Chili enchiladas. Homemade sauce. NOM NOM>

Enchilada sauce.

I promise we're eating...

Soup made with Love Abounds Krazy Easy Noodles kit ™ I added some veggies and seafood. I just added seafood and veggies to the broth while it simmered. I did cook the shrimp with the noodles not the broth.

I do have recipes I need/want to post. Soon.

More soup :-0 It's cold here.

Testing my Mexican Seasoning on fajitas... YUM

Steak Au Poivre with a brown butter balsamic reduction.

These next two are a copy cat recipe for dipping bread, it was an OK recipe I am sending out a tweaked and improved recipe with each Finishing Salt order. This one is finished with a Hawaiian red Sea Salt blend. The other with a Himalayan Pink.

I'm alive!!

I'm alive, just so busy! I'm getting ready to launch a whole new line of Gourmet Finishing Salts, Specialty Sugars, Spices, Spice blends, Rubs, and mixes and kits at Love Abounds. I am actually going to do it little by little, but little by little for one person who is also a SAHM and wife is time consuming. Lots of cooking, mixing, picture taking, dehydrating hard to find things like galangal root, all sorts of things. I will be back soon!

We're eating, I promise...

I've just been so very busy but we are eating...
Above is a Grilled Chicken Cesar you eat with your hands, you know, for movie nights, I also made long croutons that were like hard bread sticks. You can see those on top of the chicken and bacon. A platter of these is fun to set out if you don't want a traditional salad.

Bacon, grilled chicken, bleu cheese crumbles, lettuce and tomato= YUM.

Easy Peasy Mac and cheese recipe. Very CHEESY.

Stir fry with lots of veggies, udon noodles and sesame seeds.

Wow talk about behind

I thought I was only a few recipes behind but I had over 1000 pictures to go over and I have at least 12 sets that were recipes meant for this blog, a few sets meant for Here for the food. Once I get the mall organized I can put them up when I get to a place with faster Internet connection.

What's cookin'...

I have been so busy with the girls and the opening of my new store that I can hardly think straight... I apologize if you all are getting bored with these mass uploads of pictures and no recipes! SORRY... but here are some lunches...
Above is a taco salad for Diva in a Lap Top Lunch box... along with two chocolate chip mascarpone muffins and a fruit cup.

Popcorn chicken, cheese, BBQ sauce for dipping and grapes...

Chicken and wild rice soup... YUM!!!

Baked Ziti with ground turkey...

Will I ever get caught up???

I doubt it... but here are some of the girls latest bentos/lunches and a couple of new recipes I have tweaked...

I love this box, I think it's one of my favorites, it's a stainless steel two tired box. Just too cute...
what's in it? a turkey sandwich on a Hawaiian sweet roll, cheese cubes, blue corn tortilla chips and grapes. Diva ate everything I packed!

Tortillas with no nitrate added hot dogs, cubed mozzarella, and fruit skewers... if it's on a skewer my girls will eat it...

I am still here... and itching to post!

But the desktop crashed and is being worked on and I really don't like typing on laptops. My laptop is better than DH's as far as size of keyboard but it's heavier, yes, I know excuses. I have a yummy Irish Soda bread, a cheese tray, grilled vegetables, some Deviled Chicken Drumsticks recipes to post. I will try soon! I also got some great things in Seattle to post about, loose leaf teas, fan-ta-bulous olive oil, and bento gear...
Hope everyone is well in the meantime send me some recipes, I need inspiration!

Sooo behind again....

Here is what I am behind on.... This Ginger Mint Limeade...

Spring rolls with fresh Thai basil, cilantro, shrimp, roasted pork, cucumbers and all that yumminess. I am always guaranteed that the whole family will eat these! Between the assembly of the spring rolls, the roasting of the pork and making the sauce I have a TON of pictures... a TON. So I doubt I will ever get this up.

Graham crackers...

And a buttermilk bread made with white whole wheat flour.

I found two strays...

YUM. YUM one of my favorite if not my favorite pasta dishes, pancetta carbonara with capers... SO good.

And the girls helped me make some blueberry muffins for breakfast one morning.

Would you like to see how far behind I am???

I am pretty far behind... I am unsure I will get around to posting these. I am going to update them in my girls book and that may motivate me... but who knows...

Quiet on the homefront...

It's been pretty quiet around here, I have two ice cream recipes that I need to post, an excellent Egg Nog ice cream and a yummy Cinnamon. DH is working on a peppermint ice cream also. We're kinda laying low, getting ready for Thanksgiving. I have a menu ready I am just unsure with all the madness if I will have time to take pictures of anything.
DH is going to be working late all week until Thanksgiving so I may not even cook any real meals up until then. Maybe we'll just have things like omelets, French toast simple things. Diva doesn't have dance or school this whole week. So I think we're just going to hang out with each other and veg...