We are on a big healthy eating kick in our household right now. Lorena has always cooked really great and healthy food, but now the rest of us are trying to get in on the action. Last night, Lorena made the healthy potato wedges we saw on Lynn’s blog. We liked them so much, we decided to take a picture of them for today. After all the pain and anguish from eleven months of dieting last year, it is hard for me to believe that it is possible to lose weight and not feel hungry at the same time. 
It is all about the mono-unsaturated, fatty acids. MUFAS work! Kelly picked a raspberry-vinegarette salad dressing kind of thing to put on the grilled chicken that seemed a little odd to me until I tried it. It was great.
We are pretty much swamped with homeschool and expect to be that way for another two or three weeks. In the next two weeks, we need to finish ten days of homeschool in nine days with a big three day weekend at the end of it that will be fun and educational, but will include little or no formal work. In addition to that we want to make some progress on Kiwi and Rubix’s Twin Cat Sister Tower. We did a bunch of math yesterday, but we have a bunch more tonight and tomorrow. Christian is in the middle of learning how to find the vertex of parabolas and Kelly is getting to the end of her Geometry stuides. They are both doing basic Trigonometry on the side to get ready for the ACT in early February.
We keep reading aloud, though. That really helps me keep sane. If I can sit down for a half an hour and read to the kids while they knit, it has a certain calming effect on me, diminishing what the kids derisively call my “get it done” mode. We are reading William Dembski and Sean MacDowell’s new book Understanding Intelligent Design: Everything You Need to Know in Plain Language. We love it. We are going to read one of our Sonlight novels on the trip to the homeschool get-together in Tennessee. We have been reading a lot of nonfiction lately, so it will be great to get into an interesting story. As for the knitting, Kelly continues to work on a beautiful striped scarf. Christian has taken on a challenging project: a scarf with the Ubuntu Linux logo knitted into it. In addition to all that, Christian and I continue to make progress on our Ham Radio.
Special note to JoAnn: Even though the ground paper sounded delightful, we decided to substitute ground pepper because that is all we could get to go through our grinder!
So glad you liked them!
Hey, I am glad to be reading your blog. It is very encouraging.
Lynn
Thanks Lynn. The potato wedges are a great addition to our cooking repertoire.
Well, Ken often we have to tweak recipes to fit our own personal needs. Even tho ground paper would add some fiber to your fries, pepper would add the best flavor! Oh and thanks for the link to Lynn because I love her blog of things she loves, Tasha Tudor, antiques, Mary Engelbreit, birds, doll houses etc. Good luck on your healthy eating.
Thanks JoAnn. We are glad to have found her blogs, too. We continue to use the Jim and JoAnn Salmon grilling methods. Greetings to the meeting!
You poor, poor starving people! That little dab of foliage on those plates looks like the condiments I put on my well-marbled ribeye. With meals like that I’d be concerned less about my weight and more about canibalism. My advice: if you and your family finish dinner and remain at the table staring hungrily at on another, it is time to go get a double bacon cheeseburger from Burger King.
On second glance, just look at poor Christian. Why, I believe he is trying to eat that printed circuit board. 🙂
That is GREAT advise Eric. Burger King is a MUCH better option than trying to reroute the traces on a bite size whole out of the side of a circuit board. We could even eat those little paper king hats now that JoAnn has shown us they are edible.