{"id":1115,"date":"2012-06-12T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2012-06-12T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T00:55:46","slug":"my-back-to-basics-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/06\/my-back-to-basics-conundrum.html","title":{"rendered":"My Back to Basics Conundrum…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is what I love cooking...but I shouldn't be cooking this...<\/p><\/div>\n

I find myself in a little conundrum: I want to bake bake bake.<\/p>\n

When I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I wanted to go “back” to the cooking I used to do for the family, much of that involved baking cookies, cakes, cobblers, breads, cornbread, etc. I love baking.<\/p>\n

I need to change my mindset. <\/p>\n

My adventures with granola<\/a> and popcorn<\/a> are a start, but I need to keep moving forward with fun cooking tasks that don’t break the calorie bank and fill my family with empty starchy calories. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m really enjoying making a small loaf of whole wheat bread about every 3-4 days for the family<\/a>. The recipe that came out the winner uses only whole wheat flour with one cup of prepared mashed potatoes<\/a>. You can throw a medium potato in the microwave, bake it and smash it straight into the bread machine! We enjoy making sandwiches, toast and even just having slices of bread and butter as a side dish with dinner. The kids are asking for plain slices of bread as a snack! I’m not making this up!!!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m also trying to clear out some of the less-than-ideal ingredients in my pantry. I feel a little guilty doing this also. I made a key lime pie a couple weeks ago to clear out graham crackers and condensed milk…and I made a chicken noodle casserole that used up some cream of chicken soup and egg noodles.<\/p>\n

I’m doing some research on the interwebs myself, but if anyone has ideas of great homemade snacks for the family that I can keep on hand for snacking…leave me a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find myself in a little conundrum: I want to bake bake bake. When I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I wanted to go “back” to the cooking I used to do for the family, much of that involved baking cookies, cakes, cobblers, breads, cornbread, etc. I love baking. I need to change my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,184,8,616],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-hZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":692,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/12\/cranberry-almond-biscotti-from-2008.html","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":0},"title":"Cranberry Almond Biscotti: From 2008","date":"04 December 11","format":false,"excerpt":"I made these last evening also. \u00a0I didn't have enough almonds, but had plenty of almond extract so these taste SO GOOD this year!******************************Cranberry Almond Biscotti. 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