Recipe Rescue

Over Seasoning Savvy

If you've been a bit heavy handed with the spice, sugar or salt, here are a few hints for saving your dishes

Too Salty? Don't reach for a raw potato- it's a kitchen myth that it calms dishes that are too salty. Instead use a bit of sugar or maple syrup.

Too Sweet? Acidic items, such as lemon or vinegar, tend to cut down on both too-salty and too-sweet dishes. Also, for savory dishes, adding a dash of cayenne helps cut down the sugar.

Too Spicy? Add something with a little fat such as butter, or something sweet such as peanut butter or honey.

Little Miss Sunshine

Every time Mallory wears her hot pink cowgirl boots it makes me laugh. It reminds me of Little Miss Sunshine.

She is our Little Miss Sunshine!

Fresh Lobster and ATV's

Matt got tickets through work to the ATV championships out in Stillwater, Oklahoma. We took the kids, Kimmer, and a couple of the kids' friends out yesterday to the races. It was so cool. SO much different than on T.V.

We packed up early in the morning and got out of town about 8:30. We packed a picnic lunch in the cooler with sandwiches and snacks. We also decided to pack the pack 'n play and wagon which turned out to be a great idea. As you can see in the picture above we were able to shade her for most of the day from the sun. She did much better than we thought she was going to do being "stuck" in there. We let Mallory and Avery climb in to give her some company once in a while.

We were out in the sun from 11-3. Peek sun times and it was hot. It was Kim's first day off this summer to spend out in the sun. She was determined to get a tan. Well she got a little more than she wanted. She was as red as a LOBSTER last night. I'm sure she is hurting this morning at work. When she got up to walk she would hold her arms up, out in front of her and walk stiff legged. She couldn't be away from a fan blowing on her for more than 30 seconds or her skin would start burning. She had a fun time at the races though!

Since Matt's company was doing all the video and production for the event we got to go into the video audio truck and watch how it's all done. That was pretty cool. It will be on T.V. July 7th on ESPN 2.

Swimming

Our kids are like fish. They all love the water and could spend the entire summer at the pool. We have been blessed by our friends Jeff and Jennifer Bauman with a membership to a community pool. It has a diving board, two water slides, a kiddie pool, grills, picnic tables, and a snack bar. I have a feeling that is where most of our summer is going to be spent.

We decided to go out there to swim this evening, after torturing the kids all day with errands. They did such a good job of helping us out with all of our weekend chores and running around that we decided to take the evening off and go swim. We left the house about 4:30 with bathing suits, towels and a cooler packed with dinner. Matt grilled hot dogs for us with out any grilling utensils...oops won't forget those again! The kids swam while he cooked then we all sat and ate dinner and went back in the pool for about another hour. It was so much fun!

God has blessed us with some really great friends. We are so thankful to the Baumans for donating the pool pass to our family this summer. We are meeting new people from our church and around the neighborhood every time we go and the kids are making new friends too.

Needless to say the kids went to bed tonight so easy. We didn't hear a peep out of any of them!

Nudist Colony???

After the last two weeks of laundry I am seriously thinking about signing the family up to join a nudist colony. I think it would really help on the amount of laundry that goes through our house. In the past two weeks I have counted each week how many loads of laundry we are doing. An experiment I wanted to try so that I could figure out why doing a load of laundry a day was still adding up to, being behind on laundry...ALL the time. So this is what my experiment yielded. You ready for this....

18 loads of laundry a week.
36 loads of laundry in 14 days!!!

So I am pretty much convinced that it's either a nudist colony or each person in the house hold only gets seven outfits total. One for each day of the week.

Oh and while we are on the subject of laundry. My genius husband who got so fed up with sorting socks...there are a lot of feet in this house...decided to start this new pinning system. Before anyone puts their socks in the dirty laundry they have to safety pin them together. This way they go through the wash as a pair and come out as a pair..no sorting socks. It has actually worked out great and saved a lot of time.