Come What May and Love It

I love food at the harvest season. They just taste better! This recipe is one I found a few years ago and during the time Leif was gone to Iraq, we made lots of different salsas. We made the chunky salsa with the normal ingredients. We got a traditional Mexican salsa recipe and made it. We made corn salsa (one of my favorites). We made salsa with black bean's and one with Avocado chunks. We made Mango salsa and Strawberry mango salsa. You could say it was the year of the salsa, or I was on a salsa kick. I will share a few of these recipe's with you. The first I am sharing is the strawberry/mango salsa. At first I thought what do you eat it with. Duh chips. It is really good with just a bag of chips. you can also use it with any of the recipe's you would use a mango salsa with, Your Mexican fish/shrimp dishes would be a great paring for this MANGO/STRAWBERRY SALSA . I do not use as much of the mango. My family likes more strawberries and less mango's. Enjoy!

My husband loves to make pie. His favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, because he can eat pie. He has made, peach, chocolate cream, coconut cream, bannana cream, Apple, Apple carmel, and many more. I however am not a huge fan of pie. Last Thanksgiving he asked me what kind of pie I wanted because he wanted me to have a pie I like. I thought about it and I remembered a pie at a restaurant that I thought was okay, sour cream lemon. I did a search and found a recipie for it on the internet. We made one for thanksgiving and it is now one of our families favorite pies. It has a few steps to it but all in all it is a good pie. Oh and do not even think of substituting lemon juice for a real lemon. It is not the same. Well I guess you can but it does not give the same flavor. . Click here for the link

So refreshing on a hot august day! This is so much easier to make than it seems. If you do not already have a little hand juicer they are real cheap at Wal-mart. 4 lemons fresh squeezed 1 cup sugar 1/2 gallon water. mix and enjoy!

In about January we started talking about our summer fun. We talked about going far away, or maybe somewhere that we could fly. We had a limited budget for our trip. I looked at airplane tickets and at the time the cheapest flights were to Denver Co. for $250 per person. Now that is not much per person but when you times that by 5, I knew that would be over 1/2 our budget. We still wanted to take the kids on a plane ride but did not know what to do. Leif and I talked about it and decided to stay local and bump it up. We decided to do things within driving distance and use our money for fun things that we never do because of no money. There were many many things that were on the list but we narrowed it down to the following: The first thing was we booked a 1 hour flight for the kids to fly around the Teton Mountain range. L sat in the front and flew the plane for a few minutes. That was thrilling for her. That night we went to Bar J Chuckwagon. I don't love the fo...

I really like Sloppy Joes. They are yummy. In fact I do not even mind the Manwich brand. However my oldest has never ever liked manwich's. About 5 years ago I got a ward cookbook and a lady had submitted a sloppy joe recipe that I thought I would try. L loved it. She now says she does not like anyone elses sloppy joe's. Only mine. :} 1 large chopped onion 2 lbs ground beef cook onion and beef together then add 1 1/2 c catsup 1 tsp mustard 1 tsp vinegar 4 tsp sugar (I do use only 2 tsp) 1/2 c water 1 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 1/2 tsp chilli powder simmer for 10 minutes. put on buns add your favorite toppings, lettuce, cheese, pickles, or nothing at all, enjoy.

A Thomas family Tradition. This is a salad that my mom use to make for family gatherings. It is now one of my family's favorites. Cabbage Salad 1 head of cabbage 3 green onions sliced. some sesame seeds and almonds. (you can use cashews also) dry ramen noodles (to be put on later) Dressing 1/2 c sugar (I use a little less) 1/2 tsp pepper 2 tsp salt 1/3 c rice vinegar ( rice vinegar has a mild flavor I have used white and red also) 3/4 c oil. Mix the dressing till the sugar is dissolved. If I am taking it to a gathering I usually leave the dressing in the bottle. When I am ready to serve I pour the dressing over the salad, crumble 1/2 package of ramen noodles mix and serve.

Photo fun #5 Day 21: Micro , Upclose. I tried to take some photo's of up close things. I went around the house and took of knobs, and corners and you name it I took it. I did not like how any of them were turning out. So I gave up and just posted a photo that was a close up of a bird. So yes I gave up. But it was still in the back of my mind. I still took a few more photo's of close ups. In the end I like how this one turned out. Day 22: Landscape I really wanted to find a place to take a photo of the Tetons with a cute old farmhouse. I told my family I wanted to go on a sunday drive. We got in the car with my husband at the wheel. He took off in farmland. He pointed out some landscape that was interesting and I said yah I like that, but he kept going. After about 4 times he said well where do you want to stop. I said I thought you would stop at the last 4 places. He said you did not say stop. lol I guess me agreeing with him that places looked good, it was not good enough. So...