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Archive for February, 2012

Kale…who would have guessed

Monday, February 20th, 2012

We were at a going away party for a friend last night, pot-luck of course.  We love pot-lucks because everybody always makes their best dish and you are able to feast on wonderful food until we are stuffed. Robyn made Kale Chips, something we have recently been making for our families regularly and can report the kids and husbands adore them. The best comment about the food last night was when one of our friends was looking at the table loaded with food and zeroed in on the Kale Chips, “is that Kale?” he gushed before diving in and commenting how he would love to steal the bowl and eat them all. Even last year most people turned their noses up when you mentioned Kale and many would have cringed if you offered them Kale Chips to eat, my how things change. I will share the Kale Chips recipe that we have been making recently courtesy of  the Wholelife Nutrition Cookbook, just click on the link and you will find the wonderful and super yummy recipe – Kale Chips

Groundhog’s Day

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

February 2nd is an exciting day in our house as the girls race around waiting to hear if we are set for an early spring. This year the results seem to be mixed with the Canadian groundhog’s calling for an early spring and the American claiming 6 more weeks of winter. I took a look at the forecast for the next 5 days and it appears that we may be having an early spring! Sun and mild temperatures are in the forecast and the blue sky tonight as the sun was going down is a testament to that forecast.