Fajitas On The Grill
May 23, 2012 Author: Jessy | Filed under: FoodI love cooking outdoors in the summer time, the house stays cool, you are not stuck inside by the stove while everyone else is outside playing. I am very happy manning (or would it be womanning) the grill and eating dinner on the deck as a family. This is one of my favorite recipes for fajitas. I prefer flour tortillas, you can make your own with this recipe http://momlifestyle.com/?p=753 The key to good fajitas is the marinade so with this recipe you need to plan ahead a little bit.
Marinade:
1 cup water
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
4 crushed garlic cloves
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
2 lemons, juiced be careful to not get the seeds in there
1 tablespoon cilantro if dry or a small bunch chopped fresh
1/2 cup olive oil
Place all ingredients in bowl and whisk the ingredients to mix.
Marinate steak or chicken in the refrigerator for about 1 hour. Reserve some of the marinade for cooking the veggies in the grill pan. If you do both beef and chicken marinate them separately.
Fajitas:
1 pound round steak, sirloin steak or chicken breasts or both steak and chicken, marinated for about 1 hour.
1 green bell pepper, cut into strips
1 red bell pepper, cut into strips
1 white onion, cut into strips
6-8 flour tortillas
Cooking:
Preheat grill on high. Place steak on grill. Turn steak, cooking 5-7 minutes each side.
Slice onions and bell peppers. Remove steak from grill and let it rest 7 minutes. Cut the steak into strips against the grain.
Preheat a grill pan over high heat. Add peppers and onions. Cook 2-4 minutes, then add steak slices. Brush on a few tablespoons reserved marinade and cook over high heat another minute or so.
Remove from pan and serve with tortillas, sour cream, guacamole, salsa, hot sauce, cheese or whatever fajita sides you prefer, maybe even a margarita!
Raise your children to have common sense and the ability to solve their own problems, or you will be solving their problems for life.
Feb 22, 2012 Author: Jessy | Filed under: Think About It
Honey Butter
Feb 13, 2012 Author: Jessy | Filed under: FoodI love to bake bread, wheat bread, white bread, artisan bread, sour dough bread and I have recently realized that even if I make awesome bread, I can make it better when I spread on the honey butter.
I love recipes that I have all of the ingredients in my cupboard all the time, and this is one of them.
Honey Butter
1/2 Cup Butter (Room Temperature)
1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 Cup Honey
1 tsp Cinnamon
Blend all ingredients with a food processor or hand mixer at room temperature until mixed.
Store in a small tuperware in the fridge. Keep it on hand to put on your warm, fresh out of the oven, home baked bread.
Fluoride Free for Six Months
Jan 23, 2012 Author: Jessy | Filed under: Health & Safety
I have been reading about the dangers of fluoride for the past year how fluoride is a neurotoxic substance and can cause brain damage, how it can reduce IQ levels, how ingesting large amounts can cause kidney damage and kidney disease, can cause bone cancer. I have read how many people are against cities water treatment plants putting fluoride in our drinking water without our permission and often times the additional amount can be unregulated and testing can show the added amounts sometimes the levels are dangerously high.
The main reason our country adds fluoride to our water supply is to protect teeth, but when children are exposed to excessive levels of fluoride it results in dental fluorosis that will actually destroy teeth by making them mottled and rotting them from the inside out. This is why you should store your fluoride toothpaste out of reach of your young children and why they have training toothpaste to teach children how to spit out all toothpaste.
I am against adding fluoride to city water. Only 10 countries in the world add fluoride to their drinking water and 50% of all treated water is in North America. Most dental research confirms that fluoride’s main benefit comes from direct topical application to teeth not from a systemic application by ingesting it. Since I do not have a home reverse osmosis filter to remove fluoride that is placed in my water, and my fridge filter does not eliminate fluoride, I decided to do what I could to try to minimize fluoride exposure.
I have all along had my kids brushing with training toothpaste once per day, and fluoride toothpaste at nighttime. My son is now four and can easily spit out his toothpaste, so I am comfortable with him using fluoride toothpaste occasionally when I am supervising him. I figure since they can’t avoid the systemic treatment when drinking water every day or taking a bath, they get plenty of fluoride as part of their daily lives. Our pediatric dentist office claims that children under the age of 6 don’t need any more fluoride than they get from drinking city water because the risk of overexposure is so much more dangerous.
I started brushing with Natural, fluoride free toothpaste, stopped using fluoride toothpaste for six months. I have been going to the same dental office for about 4 years now and I had two perfect checkups in a row. I get annual x-rays per my insurance. I am not going to say my teeth are perfect, but my teeth health is important to me, you only get one set of adult teeth so I want to take care of them.
After 6 months of brushing multiple times per day with non fluoridated toothpaste and going in last week for a checkup. I did not share my fluoride free test with my dentist and hygienist so they had no idea what changes I made in my life since the last time they saw me. The dentist showed me my digital x-rays that showed shadows of three cavities forming on the surface of my teeth despite the fact that I brush and floss daily. He was concerned at the rapid changes in my teeth. He told me that none of the shadows in my enamel were cavities yet, but they would be in six months to a year. He suggested I start using ACT Fluoride mouthwash, I could buy a fluoride gel treatment like they apply for kids, or buy a high fluoride content toothpaste and I might be able to fight off those cavities.
Since I could see the x-ray proof right in front of my eyes compared to the last x-ray 1 year before, I said very interesting. I opted out of their treatments and chose to run over to Wal-Mart and pick up a bottle of ACT fluoride mouthwash and a new tube of Colgate fluoride toothpaste. I came home threw away my natural fluoride free toothpaste and I decided I am back on fluoride.
I hope I am able to reverse the presence of these three cavities forming on my top layer of enamel, but if not, I learned a very expensive lesson on the importance of topical application of fluoride on my teeth.
Easy Chicken Wild Rice Soup
Sep 27, 2011 Author: Jessy | Filed under: Food
1/2 cup onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup carrot, finely chopped
2 quarts chicken broth
1 lb cooked shredded chicken breasts
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cups flour
Pepper
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