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Simple Summer Supper: Farmer’s Market Finds

July 22, 2018 by Laura 1 Comment

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What if you put together all the best Farmer’s Market Finds of the week and created a Simple Summer Supper?

Make a Meal from Farmer’s Market Finds!

The Farmer’s Market in our town opens for two hours every Thursday evening through the summer. Sometimes I run downtown on Thursdays and grab a few favorites, then take it all home to serve immediately for our dinner. We can make a great meal this way, with very little effort or money!

Is it weird to make a meal without any meat? I used to think so. But now we are perfectly happy to eat a meal of buttered corn on the cob, sliced watermelon, fried zucchini, and fresh peaches with cream.

Come to think of it, sometimes there’s a booth set up at our Farmers Market that sells fun meat sticks or kielbasa. Those go great with any of the fresh fruits and veggies we can pick up. It makes a great meal without any trouble. And it sure doesn’t get any fresher than this! (Unless we pick it from our own garden, of course!)

And this, my friends, is today’s Simple Summer Supper tip. Go to your local Farmer’s Market and pick up food to serve for a meal or two. Take your kids and let them pick their favorites! It’ll be fun, simple, delicious, and highly nutritious.

Have you seen our other Simple Summer Suppers? Here’s a running list:

  • Simple BLT Wraps
  • Simple Bacon Broccoli Salad
  • Simple Sloppy Joes
  • Simple Sloppy Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
  • Simple Taco Salad
  • Simple Grilled Tortilla Pizza
  • 16 Simple Summer Dips
  • Simple Tuna Salad Wraps
  • The Perfect Grilled Chicken

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Getting Food Prepared for Company

June 21, 2013 by Laura 29 Comments

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I love having these Raw Cookie Dough Bites from The Nourishing Home on hand for snacking. 

We are very excited to have two different families coming to stay at our house – the first for a few days beginning this weekend, and another next week, staying for three whole weeks!! The boys are looking forward to playing with their buddies, and I am looking forward to catching up with great friends I don’t get to see nearly often enough.

So that I can enjoy our visits and not spend all my time in the kitchen, I’ve tried to get a little bit of cooking done ahead of time. Here’s what I’ve made (or plan to make tomorrow):

  • Sloppy Joes (made and in the freezer)
  • Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (made and in the freezer)
  • Raw Cookie Dough Bites (made and in the fridge)
  • Whole Wheat Quick Mix (on my list for tomorrow)
  • Cheesy Salsa Enchiladas (on my list for tomorrow)

One of our guests this weekend needs to eat gluten free, and then the following week, one guest has a peanut allergy. As long as I don’t get my weeks/guests mixed up, we should be just fine. :)

Our local Farmer’s Market hasn’t had much to offer yet in the way of fresh produce. We’ll get there, it’s just still early in Nebraska! Thursday night, I was able to get some fresh greens and two heads of broccoli. We ate all of the broccoli at lunch today. So good!

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I got stocked up at the store tonight on loads of fresh fruits and a few veggies, plus a few treats to share with our guests. I love all the fresh produce available this time of year. (And no, not all of it was organic. This is all I have available to me right now, so I’m cheerfully going for it!)  Hopefully by the time company comes, we’ll still have some of this available. I mean, when there are fresh peaches in the house…

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What are some of your favorite meals to feed guests?

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Staycation in Nebraska

May 23, 2011 by Laura 23 Comments

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Wanna hear about all the fun things there are to do in Nebraska? Yes, we do have more than just corn fields. And squirrels. And corn fields.

I love the simple and quiet life we have here in Nebraska. It takes me seven minutes to drive “all the way across town” here in York. Funny how I can take that for granted.

Just in case you live in Nebraska or think you may come through for a visit sometime, I wanted to share some of the fun attractions in these parts. I’ll start with some of our family’s favorites, then share with you some that we’re excited to see and do in the near future:

Edgerton Explorit Center

This is by far our favorite place to visit in Nebraska. We’ve appreciated so much that Edgerton has set up a special program each month for home schoolers to come and learn. We’ve learned about everything from nano-technology to how to disect an eyeball at Edgerton. They provide experiences I just can’t provide at home and my kids love it. The best part (well, one of the best parts) about Edgerton is the big open room full of “toys” the kids can play with to explore science. I have to tear my kids away from this room everytime we go. Love it!

We buy a two year pass, which saves us money and allows us to go at anytime.

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Strategic Air and Space Museum

Located just between Lincoln and Omaha, I really didn’t think I would care much for the Strategic Air and Space Museum. I knew my boys would get a big kick out of it, but the idea of looking at airplanes for hours didn’t thrill me. I was mistaken in my assumption. I learned all sorts of things when we visited the Strategic Air and Space Museum and wasn’t one bit bored! I had no idea there were so many different kinds of airplanes and wow the history you can learn in a place like this. To say my boys loved our visit there is an understatement.

Haymarket Farmer’s Market

I know there are Farmer’s Markets all over the place, but I happen to think that the market in Lincoln is super. When I’ve visited, I’ve been so impressed with the variety and the set up and wow…there is so much wonderful fresh produce to be found (during the warm months, of course)! It’s a fabulous family outing. Yeah, I get a kick out of looking at rows of tomatoes and carrots. What can I say?

Wessels Living History Farm

Wessels Farm is just outside of York, making it my very favorite kind of field trip! All summer long, they’ve got programs available for kids and families, which you can read about here. The farm is set up to look like a farm of the 1920’s. I LOVE visiting Wessels and the kids have learned so much each time we go!

Lewis and Clark Missouri River Basin Visitors Center

The Lewis and Clark Center is just under two hours away from us in Nebraska City. Why we’ve never visited is a big question mark because we’ve studied Lewis and Clark quite a lot over the past few years. We’ve driven right by the The Lewis and Clark Center several times and keep saying we want to stop there. We have friends that visit there every single year because they love it so much. We really are gonna do that some day!

Sometime this summer we’re planning to visit the Omaha Zoo and Durham Museum…I’ll report back on those after our visits!

Planning to do anything fun this summer? Wanna come visit us in Nebraska? We’ll take you to our Science Center!!

 

 

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