- started giving cheerios this week. maddie seems to be able to handle it fine, but i still limit how much i give her, bc i dont feel they dissolve very fast.

Well last night i decided to cook. I defrosted my roast beef I had in my freezer and made some mashed potatoes to go along with it. Found out that D and H were coming over, so I addded on a 3 cheese pasta:

crispy fried shallots. so good. i put these on top of the mash


my roast. i cuts slits in the meat and put in garlic slices. On the bottom of the pan is water, broth and marsala wine. also some extra garlic which added a lot to the soon-to-be gravy. no marination needed. very easy recipe and this fed us 4 plus it had leftovers.


done. about an hour in the oven.


this is whats at the bottom of the pan when the beef is done. just put back on your stovetop, add some flour and/or butter, maybe a little more broth if needed, and voila. instant gravy.


3 cheese pasta. SO easy. just boil pasta, then when its done, add the next ingredients. butter, fontina cheese, parmesan cheese, and gruyere. its the cheeses i had on hand, but you can add any cheese. (Sorry no pics of actual pasta).


speaking of food...

My diet has been awful lately...being that i breastfeed i should be taking in much more protein than i do.

When i was preggers meat of any kind really did not intrigue me. Now that i gave birth, that surprisingly hasnt changed. i still kind of get turned off by both chicken and beef. Weird right? I force myself to eat some beef bc I know I am anemic as it is. I do love and crave seafod but i have to limit this to three to four servings a week to avoid potential overconsumption of mercury and other trace elements.

Vitamin c....forget it. I get none. I bought some calcium fortified OJ the other day.

i could list all the other nutrients i dont get, but then that would be way too long of a post. so ill just say i need to keep better track of what im eating!

in other food news, i am loving Michelle O bama's campaign against childhood obesity. since even becoming pregnant, i always knew i wanted to play some hand in my future children's school meals. i feel that this is SO important. I remember eating nasty pizza, chicken nuggets, burgers at my elementary school. horrible. i would never feed that stuff to my kid now and i really hope these LI schools have some kind of nutrition program in place.

and totally off topic, i just found out that one of the more popular cooperative preschools in my neighborhood is literally around the corner from me! (cooperative means the parents play active roles in participation in the school and community..and you either dont pay anything, or a much lower tuition. ummm, since when did some preschools cost the same amount as a car? huh? huh?). Anyway, jae took a new route home the other day and just as we were turning the corner to my house, i noticed the school... I could walk there in 3 minutes. so excited!