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Sweet Potato Pecan Pie

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Sweet Potato Pecan Pie (I'll find out tomorrow if it tastes good, but it made my house smell awesome and that's usually a pretty good sign!) Ingredients 1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust 2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes 2 eggs 3/4 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 2/3 cups light cream (or sub 1 can evaporated milk) 3 tablespoons butter, softened 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 2/3 cup chopped pecans Directions 1.Bake sweet potatoes until tender, peel and mash. Make sure all lumps are removed, straining if necessary. 2.Lightly beat eggs. Blend together eggs and sweet potatoes. Stir in sugar, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Blend in cream. Pour into pie shell. 3.Bake in preheated oven at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) 45-55 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge of pie comes out clean. Cool completely on rack. 4.To make Caramelized Pec

Freezer Meal Recipes!!!

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The 'freezer casserole making in prep for baby coming' continued  today. Elly was a good little girl and napped for nearly 2 hours so I was able to make 2 Baked Ziti, 1 Beef and Broccoli Pie (all 9x13's), and a lemon bar. I'm hoping to still make spaghetti pie tonight and also 2 pumpkin loaf cakes with cream cheese frosting. My feet are feeling a tad puffy, so once I finish the cooking I'm planning to sit and watch tv or maybe read, but here it is 8:30 already, so we'll see. When it came time for dinner tonight I was honestly thinking Totinos! They are hardly even edible for human consumption ( I mean, what the heck is even in them?), but I'd be totally lying if I said I didn't love them and could eat them every single day if they weren't a heart attack in a box :) Btw, all pizzas are 30% off this week at Fred Meyer, hehe. So, instead of the frozen gloriousness of Totinos I was a good mommy and made High Protein Pancakes. They are essentially health

Sausage and Lentil Soup

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My sweet girl is napping and I'm making a double batch of Cucina Cucina Lentil Sausage soup to freeze for meals after the baby comes. Here is the link to the recipe: http://www.mom-mom.com/lentil.htm  . My friend Tawny told me about it last year and it's probably my favorite hearty soup recipe now. It's one of those that you would eat at a restaurant and wonder what's in it and assume it's hard to make at home. It's really not though! A little time consuming with prep, but not too bad. Here's the actual recipe so you can view it and see pics on the same page: 1 1/2 cups lentils rinsed thoroughly 4 links (1 lb.) Italian sausage (mild is used in the restaurant and I prefer ground sausage- I'm weird about eating casing) 1 TBSP butter 1 TBSP Olive Oil (Extra Virgin) 1/2 cup diced white onion (I prefer Maui or Walla Walla Sweet) 1/2 cup diced carrot 1/4 cup diced leek, white part only 1/4 cup diced celery 1 TBSP salt 1/2 TSP. ground white pepper

Sauteed Chicken in a Honey Marinade Reduction. SO good!

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Today was a rough day. The obnoxious neighbor's dog woke Eliana and me up at 6:45am. ARGH! Then we went to a playdate and when we got home for her nap there was a crew from the county literally right outside our house working on the street. It was a parade of loud equipment and the loudest "BEEP BEEP" I have ever heard for 3 hours. I turned on the tv, the radio, a fan, her sound machine, and the space heater and still could not cover up the road work noise. So, after two solid attempts we gave up on a nap. This was tragic being that she was exhausted from the playdate and worn out from cutting 4 teeth at the same time. It ended up being a long and exhausting day for mommy and baby. The littlest things made her mad and she just wasn't herself. We put her to bed around 6pm but she's already been up crying 2x and it's only 9pm. I'm hoping she'll sleep through the night from here on and will let mommy sleep in at least til 8 tomorrow! Blasted teeth :( T

Hearty Italian Sausage Lentil Soup

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I made the yummiest lentil soup 2 nights ago. Seriously, so delicious. My awesome, culinary expert friend Tawny shared the recipe with me. Here it is : http://www.cucinacucina.com/recipes.htm . Follow it to a T, it is perfect with all the misc ingredients. I thought the mustard would make it weird, but it's so good. Even my 15 month old has been chowing down :) The only thing I might do differently next time is to take the sausage out of the casing and cook it up that way. I will be making this recipe for years to come!