Life in Nebraska ....

So here are two very unhealthy delicious recipes that we've been enjoying lately. They are more winter recipes  than summer recipes I suppose but still good.  Also, I bet they could be converted!  To be more healthy I mean!  I should be cool and do pictures and all that but I'm not that cool.  Sausage Penne Pasta Saute Smoked sausage slices in onions and coconut oil. At the very end of the saute add two cloves of fresh garlic.  Add three cups of chicken broth.  Add uncooked penne pasta.  Put a lid on it and simmer for twenty minutes till pasta is soft and liquid is gone.  Add more liquid if you run out before pasta is soft.  Right before serving pour cream over it and stir in.  And then stir in parmesan cheese.       We ate this with garlic toast and romaine lettuce salad.  My pickiest eater had THREE servings till the evening was over.  He wanted some for a bedtime snack.    Now if I co...

Morning coffee. Keagan has been making all kinds of neat things with kinex.   I made a most delicious pie.  It takes 3 or 4 ingredients and so simple to make.   The beginnings of a wonderful big DEEP sandbox!  She helped by watching from the swing.  These two small ones were off to load the wagon with all their sandbox equipment.... More of her sunshine!  The anticipation was running high!  Completed Project.  Zerrick says that even he might play in the sandbox now and then..... he would rather chase a  foot ball all day.  And then we had pizza on the grill... so good.  I have to treasure this spot in time.....It's flying away so fast!  Big long story about the ground our deck is on....but the end of it is that there is a cistern down there that is making things sink and hopefully we're getting to the bottom of the problem....literally..... Later in...