tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14793939698787864962024-02-18T18:19:16.844-08:00feeling a little lunchyfeelingalittlelunchyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07675534284999648541noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479393969878786496.post-73465584708610909982014-03-05T10:07:00.001-08:002014-03-06T16:08:52.843-08:00feeling a little countryInspired by <a href="http://amzn.to/15GCn5K">Wendy Thorpe Copley's book EVERYDAY BENTO</a>, I made this lunch. Thanks Wendy!<br>
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Turkey and cheese on Italian white bread with an egg adorned with carrots, an orange with raisins and some pretzel thins. Not as pretty as what's in Wendy's book, but just as tasty! I used a CuteZCute cutter for the piggie and just some good old fashioned knife work on that egg.</div>
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And of course, we have almost the same lunch in a more acceptable way for a middle schooler...minus the egg and the raisins (she doesn't like raisins or eggs in her lunch like the wild child does.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">EasyLunchBoxes are definitely easy...who wouldn't love being able to slap some food into one container instead of all those little bags and boxes? I've been working a bit more, and focusing on some other things lately, so lunch is the last thing on my mind. In fact, the girls have been making their own lunches this week and after getting the eye-roll from the husband last night for not packing lunches, I felt I needed to step it up. And this is about as far as I stepped it up, folks. A mushroom ring on top of some grapes with salami and cheese on leftover hamburger buns and pretzel thins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Call me easy...I don't care. But please don't say "Ain't nobody got time for that" to me or my other bento moms...and never question what someone packs for lunch. You don't know their entire meal plan. Please try and recognize that there's real moms and real people behind these blogs and lunches...they're not just some random pictures. Their kids DO eat this food. Don't comment on their Facebook posts that there's too many carbs or not enough whatever. It's the Internet, yo...and quite frankly, the internet can't accomodate for what you do in your own home. Your kids might not typically eat it, but you'd be surprised if that's what you packed and they were hungry. My wild child won't touch a vegetable at the dinner table, but she scarfs down a whole EasyLunchboxes full of salad at school during lunch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the wild child's lunch...she made it herself. Think she's learned it by watching me? (So glad we won't be featured in that Just Say No to Drugs ad campaign just yet). She even took the picture (explains the blur) and set it up on that black and white paper. There's some Star Wars action going on there with goldfish, a homemade chocolate chip cookie, a hot dog bun, peanut butter and jelly in the mini-dippers with a little cheese spreader for that. We are glad to report that there were no issues with her having a cheese knife at school...otherwise we'd have been on the news defending it's blunt edges and versatility. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">John Lennon said it best..."Time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted." I'm living by that now and teaching my daughters to do the same. So much so, I felt the need to waste good time drawing on my chalkboard. And I wasted a LOT of time here...I have sensory issues with chalkboards and just doing that foggy chalk around the clock took like 15 minutes. Tickety tock. You make time for what you enjoy...so just enjoy it.</span></div>
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Take a gander!</div><div><br></div><div>Original shot of our house:</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifM0PehAsH90-Rpl0qLympdSf-CyYzFerE6L-oJpfbaVDCeL8uhmPuWBzLq9aldGxPMWvuQCE82outN0WOhqKupv-tUD_zeX32W216ucv382qqey3QEpxOLYjZdRZYA97XBCUXUEVv2CQ/s640/blogger-image--149871529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifM0PehAsH90-Rpl0qLympdSf-CyYzFerE6L-oJpfbaVDCeL8uhmPuWBzLq9aldGxPMWvuQCE82outN0WOhqKupv-tUD_zeX32W216ucv382qqey3QEpxOLYjZdRZYA97XBCUXUEVv2CQ/s640/blogger-image--149871529.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And the edited version:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVvmj9tJnQXlqbSeJRK6iI4CpRcc2iM_5IEEajW62HMEQYhRiareCsjKz6Z5pcd7DMFBif_PXuB1ssLPn-XaW-q8zuUgQO1bNdAn-TDuvvJ-SSszWyOjLk8XgkggSFbQKcwHYb7Fdpn8E/s640/blogger-image--328792067.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVvmj9tJnQXlqbSeJRK6iI4CpRcc2iM_5IEEajW62HMEQYhRiareCsjKz6Z5pcd7DMFBif_PXuB1ssLPn-XaW-q8zuUgQO1bNdAn-TDuvvJ-SSszWyOjLk8XgkggSFbQKcwHYb7Fdpn8E/s640/blogger-image--328792067.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So much better!! Makes me want to live here forever!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And here's a lunch, since that's what this blog is typically all about. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyphenhyphenN1-8FdzfsHPSIgqR1mpMsZcF6HSi68M3yuzM3pyVVYZGLPTQehFkFtHWVNwi15uNZL7LpqNzIAYRyFVhUkbEVQ9bv9W8CctsFetAKan3RCv7_c0iwMb0ko63d5-Nn-DGab2iLRVGmc/s640/blogger-image--1786299586.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyphenhyphenN1-8FdzfsHPSIgqR1mpMsZcF6HSi68M3yuzM3pyVVYZGLPTQehFkFtHWVNwi15uNZL7LpqNzIAYRyFVhUkbEVQ9bv9W8CctsFetAKan3RCv7_c0iwMb0ko63d5-Nn-DGab2iLRVGmc/s640/blogger-image--1786299586.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cropped and edited using the Snapseed app:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTMzNZV0kVi5KKb1JcJkUjQqXw5htzgHltTUrbrTeeLHyoHe7TpQSG9EUpa0TTYGToL1r3a2vWDbyh2XTZdUCrMPN3vA5-1Bqp1Vqyzf2MJxJcq7W3-bAQUL-9Jo0fHNVxtwsgsXMPJ1U/s640/blogger-image--816206079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTMzNZV0kVi5KKb1JcJkUjQqXw5htzgHltTUrbrTeeLHyoHe7TpQSG9EUpa0TTYGToL1r3a2vWDbyh2XTZdUCrMPN3vA5-1Bqp1Vqyzf2MJxJcq7W3-bAQUL-9Jo0fHNVxtwsgsXMPJ1U/s640/blogger-image--816206079.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">So much better! I'm in love. This lunch consists of Pillsbury Grands biscuit turkey and cheese sandwich, ranch dressing, carrots, blackberries, strawberries, and a couple of Keebler Simply Made Butter Cookies. Those things are so good!!</div><br></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are interested in any of the products I use, click the affiliate links below, please! Anytime you purchase through one of my links, regardless of what you purchase, I get a small percentage of the sale. It's how lunchy gets paid! 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True...as in resourceful and economical with my time. Although, I was only a Brownie for a few weeks before I quit...and if you have to know, I was actually in the Boy Scouts for a bit...well, a division of the Boy Scouts called Sea Scouts. That was an awesome time! My girls have both done the Girl Scouts thing for a while. From Brownie to Junior and now Cadet. </div>
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A few years ago, a woman I worked with brought some of her leftover soup in to work and ate it for lunch. It smelled so fantastic I had to get the recipe. She says it won a state fair contest somewhere but I had been unable to locate the recipe online anywhere. She gave me a photo copy of the recipe. I did a little sleuthing last night and found it on the Food Network site. To see that recipe, click <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/cooking-live/cheeseburger-chowder-recipe/index.html">HERE</a>. </div>
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Santa is coming! My girls are at the age where the magic is fading. They haven't said that they don't believe or even questioned us this year, but I know it's going to be the last year we can hang on to the magic. Santa brings them one big gift that's left unwrapped, since he doesn't have time to do all that wrapping. I think they love coming down and seeing their favorite gift sitting under the tree. The excitement they have for it is genuine and I have cherished those moments. Last year, my younger daughter had some questions and her big sister would cover her ears and hum loudly to drown out the sound. It was so funny. This year, they're more interested in technology and clothes, so the big gift is going to take a lot of thought. Here it is, December 16 and we've still got nothing! What we do have is a blog hop...since Santa is coming to LUNCH! </div>
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The lunch is simply a turkey sandwich cut to look like a fireplace, salad with carrot stars and one of our easiest cookies ever...the recipe for those cookies can be found <a href="http://www.feelingalittlelunchy.com/2013/12/feeling-little-like-making-easiest.html">HERE</a>. The girls had a great time using our food coloring tints to paint on the white chocolate of the cookies. I prefer the cookies without all the paint, but they were having such a great time doing it and working together. </div>
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I cut the crusts off the bread, except for bottom edge, which is the top ledge of the fireplace. Using the back side of the knife I pressed the bread a bit to make bricks. Cut a square out, painted a burning fire with Wilton food coloring tints and BAM! Instant doorway for Santa to come in to. Although now that I think of it, the burning fire may pose a problem for him...poor guy. </div>
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Of course there's a Same Lunch, Two Ways since the older, mini woman would be appalled by a fireplace in her lunch. She came home and mentioned that the food coloring on her cookie had colored her teeth, which none of her friends told her about until two classes after lunch and she was embarrassed a little. She stated that I could still put the cookie in future lunches, but they had to be decor-free. I haven't packed them salads in a while because I was getting them back and they were hungry. They ate all of the salad so I was pleased. </div>
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It's no surprise that we love the movie Elf with Will Ferrell. It was played daily in our house from November until July one year...and my then two year old cursed "Son of a nutcracker!" on a regular basis. So when my friend from <a href="http://www.ourlunchbags.com/2013/12/buddy-elf-in-easylunchbox.html">What's In Our Lunch Bags</a> mentioned making an Elf lunch, I had to follow suit. Thanks for the idea Karen. I ❤️ You!</div>
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First, make sandwiches by spreading your peanut butter or WowButter between two crackers. Try not to have the butter seeping out the sides of the sandwiches too much. It will end up melting in your candy coating and making a mess. One box of crackers yielded about 60 sandwiches for us. We made half of them with peanut butter and half with WowButter. If you're making these for people with allergies to peanuts, you'll really want to make sure you don't cross contaminate anything. </div>
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Second, melt your candy coating as per the directions on the package. I've done this in the microwave before, but honestly, it burns very easily so using the stove top may be safer since you can actually feel the lumps melting while you stir. The coating stays well melted for a long time after it's removed from the stove. It can also be reheated if needed. Make sure you melt it on a low setting so it doesn't burn. </div>
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Dip the cracker sandwiches, one at a time, in the coating with two forks. Make sure to turn them over a few times to get an even coating. Hold them over the pan to drip off the excess candy. Place them on the parchment paper to cool. They take a while to cool, but you'll want to add your sprinkles while they're still melty. You can make five or ten, do the sprinkles, then go make more. Or if you prefer more simple, just leave them plain. </div>
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That's it. You're done. Well, you'll have to wait about 45 minutes for them to be cool enough to box up. Although, a warm candy coated peanut butter cracker is rather fantastic too. I almost prefer the WowButter ones to the traditional peanut butter. The WowButter has this great toasty flavor to it, combine that with the salt of the crackers and the uber sweet of the candy...it might just be the perfect cookie.</div>
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Goofy would be an understatement...look at that silly gingerbread man sandwich! His eyes are making me giggle. The wild child came home and saw it and said it was weird. WowButter is a great allergy free alternative to peanut butter that tastes and looks so much like the real thing that you'd never know the difference...except if you had a peanut allergy, of course! The eyes are Wilton candy eyes and the mouth and buttons are Kraft Jet-Puffed Mallow Bits. We love those bits around here. Often have to stop myself from grabbing a handful and chowing down. They're just like the marshmallows you find in cereals...without the cereal. Yum!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are almost ready for the holidays. My store is getting busy as all the shoppers are out and about. It's hard to keep my cool, but fortunately the customers are patient when they see we are working hard to pump out those drinks. The big gifts are bought and now is the fun part of finding all those little special somethings to round out the presents. My big gift was the camera, but I'm hoping Santa brings me a mustache camera strap and a wifi adapter for it. The camera is great. The mini woman had a chorus concert this week and I used it to shoot some great photos and even better videos. So clear and so nice to have it to add to our pile of memories. It took longer to upload than it did to make. Like twenty minutes for a two minute video...ugh!</span></div><div><br></div></div>
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I bought this chalkboard at an antique store a few months ago and it hangs in my kitchen. It's an old twin sized headboard that was modified. How clever. It's one of my favorite things in the house...even if I suffer greatly every time I write on it. In fact, just the thought of drawing on the wooden surface painted with chalkboard paint sets off a series of chills and goosebumps down my arms. Wish I knew why I physically react to chalk. Must be the sound and feel of it combined. I muscle through it and have discovered that if I keep the surface wet and freshly wiped down while I'm working on it, that the side effects are lessened. Scrawled across this board is a quote from the movie Elf with Will Ferrell. "The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear." It's our family's favorite holiday movie by far. The movie came out on DVD around Thanksgiving of 2004 and we bought it, not knowing that it would be such a big part of our lives. The wild child was completely enamoured by it. She was not quite two years old, and every single day she had to watch the movie before she would take a nap. I used to allow them to settle down on the couch for their naps, so she would curl up with her blanket and demand "Watchy Elf?!" This continued for almost eight months. Every. Single. Day. Even now when I hear the opening credits, I start to feel a little sleepy. </div>I can still hear my sweet little toddler cursing, "Son of a nutcracker!" 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He doesn't do anything extravagant...but he sure uses a crap ton of lights. This year we can honestly say that there are no less than 3000 lights on the front of the house. 3000! Thank goodness I decorated the entire tree this year and took off some lights, too. One year he put so many on, I'm pretty sure you could see it from space. I was afraid that we might be falsely accused of being a marijuana grow house by those infared radars the police use as they fly over in helicopters. Looking at this photo now, I may have to sneak out there and remove some of those lights..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today is the first day back after the Thanksgiving holiday break. 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I'm a relatively Newvian Whovian, but luckily the geek community doesn't judge! My daughters and I were introduced to the Doctor last year and have watched every episode of the new series and are currently working our way through some of the older episodes. We are eagerly awaiting the return of the Doctor this weekend and what better way to celebrate, geek style, than with a painted slice of cheese and a blog hop? The Cyberman I drew on the cheese turned out ok, don't you think? I shared this with some of my bento blogging friends and was invited to join in their blog hop for Edible Geekery. I'm honoured and thrilled! Now we just have to figure out how to watch the 50th when we don't have cable or the BBC....hmmmmm....</div>
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so I guest posted over at <a href="http://www.ourlunchbags.com/" target="_blank">What's in Our Lunch Bags?</a> It's one of my favorite lunches so far, and she's got one of my favorite blogs! Oh her talent astounds me. What this woman can do with a slice of cheese and a food pen is amazing.</div>
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Today is the last day of school for my girls and they're more than ready for a break. Thanksgiving is next week, but at the elementary school, they do a big thanksgiving feast for the everyone and their families. It's such a great tradition. They cover all the lunchroom tables in festive tablecloths. There's centerpieces. The meal itself is done well, with turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and green beans. I have loved going up to the school for lunch on this special day for years. Mainly because I absolutely love canned green beans cafeteria style, but also to spend some time with my girls. My daughter has been spoiled, though, and has refused the feast this year. She says she really doesn't like the cafeteria food. What's even worse is that neither my husband nor I can make it up there to eat with her. So I tried to make this lunch a little festive for her. </div>
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It's a turkey sandwich with plastic leaves for the feathers and candy eyes. I used some food coloring gel to make the beak. She also has a thermos on the side with some hot mashed potatoes and gravy that I didn't photograph because, well, it's just a thermos of mashed potatoes. </div>
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I truly hope that you all have a fantastic thanksgiving. There's nothing like eating too much and being with family. We go to my brother in laws house almost every year and I can't wait to scarf down his amazing fried turkey. It's really delicious. He fries it in peanut oil and I could eat all the skin off that beast...wow, that sounds kind of gross, sorry. But it's fantastic. Happy thanksgiving!</div>
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It's a favorite around here and I'm always happy to oblige. This lunch will be eaten at room temperature and the girls don't mind that at all. Don't chide me, but those are frozen waffles that are lightly toasted, as well as Morning Star Farms veggie "sausage" patties served with syrup in the Mini Dipper. There's also an egg and a side of Muller Greek Corner yogurt. We love those yogurts! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's been a bit busy around here with the holidays getting ready to start. If you didn't know already, I work at Starbucks, in a mall location and I must say, it's already feeling like mid-December around there. It's been much busier and I am struggling to keep a cheerful disposition, kind of a requirement for that job. I've been quite disheartened by the decline in civility lately...and not just because I work in the service industry, but in general, people seem to be wrapped up in their phones and lives which is leaving little time to look up and say hello before barking an order at the girl behind the register. Those who do say "Hello" and "I'm fine, how are you" back to me are fewer and farther in between. I know you're busy too and really just need that coffee, but it's nice when customers genuinely respond to a simple "Hi, how are you?" Enough of that rant! On to the next...I'm really enjoying my new camera! It's a Nikon D5200 and my wonderful husband bought it for me for my birthday. I'm doing my best to learn how to manipulate all the settings and lenses. I do not edit my photos for the most part, so what you see is what it looks like. I do crop of course. Otherwise you'd be seeing my patio table and a cutting board underneath that cute background paper. 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Pressing things into bread makes for a more interesting lunch. I've got these small plastic leaves that I usually scatter on the table for Thanksgiving that worked perfectly for this sandwich. All I did was press the plastic leaf into the bread, then use a bit of food coloring to highlight the impressions. Some of the leaves are hand "painted" and others were pressed into the bread with the food coloring painted on the backs of the leaves before I stamped with them. Give it a try sometime. Almost anything that can be used to stamp into the bread would work, I'm sure. </div>
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<br>feelingalittlelunchyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07675534284999648541noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479393969878786496.post-57332153901899151422013-11-08T04:01:00.001-08:002013-11-08T13:58:18.494-08:00feeling a little fishy<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBt5WA6Zqi2w1gzJr6nP8KUwWAOGOtTXc6egy3431v8xRgEA_9-jNlyN_Z89q5GF6T1mFYHSyEXE4SyIoNevK01PjPaq0K3vdWsYfgrGYmOlgptE70ZKlW1aXvYwchdmqyq0poLOc5uA/s640/blogger-image-1990469716.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBt5WA6Zqi2w1gzJr6nP8KUwWAOGOtTXc6egy3431v8xRgEA_9-jNlyN_Z89q5GF6T1mFYHSyEXE4SyIoNevK01PjPaq0K3vdWsYfgrGYmOlgptE70ZKlW1aXvYwchdmqyq0poLOc5uA/s640/blogger-image-1990469716.jpg"></a></div><br></div>I made a quick and easy fish florentine bake for dinner. While it was absolutely delicious, I'm quickly learning that as I get older, there are some things I used to thoroughly enjoy to eat that are now causing some allergy symptoms. I've been avoiding shellfish for about 8 years now, since I was stuck for three extra days down in Florida hugging the toilet. Tuna and other fish had not caused any problems until I ate this meal. My sinuses got all stuffy and my throat swelled a little. Not enough to cause it to be hard to breathe, but enough to make me realize that I MUST go get tested for allergies so I know exactly what to avoid. Regardless, I'm sharing this great recipe with you. It was simple and delicious and I might make it again...with chicken. <div><br></div><div>Easy Fish Florentine Bake</div><div><br></div><div>2 pounds of fish filets (I used frozen flounder, didn't even thaw it.)</div><div>Salt and pepper or even some Old Bay would be great</div><div>1 box thawed chopped spinach</div><div>2 cups Bisquick</div><div>1 cup milk</div><div>2 eggs</div><div>1/4 cup grated parmesean cheese (optional)</div><div><br></div><div>Set oven to 350. Arrange fish filets in a greased baking dish. Season with salt and pepper or Old Bay. Spread the chopped spinach over the top of the filets. In a separate bowl, use a fork to whisk the bisquick, milk, eggs and parmesean cheese together. Pour mixture over top of spinach and fish. Bake for about 40 minutes until the bisquick is golden brown. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx7TP3u9sdYOmzb1ZQijc6m57VPeWNshBrT1WZZptCn9FpRmeOGzxfrVSejmgjSVsfHtuClB3Gy9aCTbwgcPSX6ukRU-9bkoyNTewSJhh1_oHTdl0YhvOqHhrjyKMpwNu-x6aN3VAvEvc/s640/blogger-image--1132043485.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx7TP3u9sdYOmzb1ZQijc6m57VPeWNshBrT1WZZptCn9FpRmeOGzxfrVSejmgjSVsfHtuClB3Gy9aCTbwgcPSX6ukRU-9bkoyNTewSJhh1_oHTdl0YhvOqHhrjyKMpwNu-x6aN3VAvEvc/s640/blogger-image--1132043485.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrt3QdBI4pPZDwhIAXIvLlLlcOCrbKx6oVEzxuspMjPSPZUUUfabpcLRazMSnMdE9OJTkkZCCgTtog_DiCQWLBMRpWaGjkMuMhZiLY6NpPFzI_HPzw8uDgtcYxJtE006QVAxeMtC_UlM0/s640/blogger-image--1313358604.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrt3QdBI4pPZDwhIAXIvLlLlcOCrbKx6oVEzxuspMjPSPZUUUfabpcLRazMSnMdE9OJTkkZCCgTtog_DiCQWLBMRpWaGjkMuMhZiLY6NpPFzI_HPzw8uDgtcYxJtE006QVAxeMtC_UlM0/s640/blogger-image--1313358604.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div><br></div>feelingalittlelunchyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07675534284999648541noreply@blogger.com0