Tis the season to be hungry!

My kids have come up with a great way to earn money for Christmas. For the past few weeks they have been baking cookies and selling them door to door. I think it's a great idea, not only are they earning money, but they are learning people skills, money management, making change, paying tithing, learning how to make cookies, and not begging to watch TV all day to boot! This week they made Soft Ginger Cookies (they are soooo good!) and I just want to say thanks to all the people who have purchased their cookies and supported them in their little project. Thanks so much!

While we are on the subject of food, does anybody else ever get in a dinner rut? It feels like we are always eating the same things at our house, so I am doing something to try to get out of it. I am doing a recipe tag. I am going to post something that our family eats on a regular basis and I want everyone else to do the same.

This is a recipe for meatballs and rice. This is Golden's grandmother's recipe, and when I make this, everyone is happy. Hope you like it!

Meatballs in creamy sauce

1 lb. Ground beef

2t. prepared mustard

1t. salt

1\4 t. pepper.

2 slices bread, cut up

1\4 c. milk

1 small onion, finely chopped

1 egg

Mix together bread and milk. Add other ingredients and mix together. Shape mixture into balls and brown in 1\4 cup butter or margarine. Remove from pan. and 1/4 cup flour and cook a few minutes. Add 2 cups water with one bullion cube dissolved in it. Stir and bring to a boil.

Add:

3 T. ketchup

1/4 c. canned milk

1/2 t. salt

1/8 t. pepper

Stir into gravy mixture. Add meatballs and simmer 20 minutes. Serve over buttered rice.

Please, please please help me by posting a good recipe on your blog!!!!!

Also, speaking more about food, this Monday was Brandi's B-Day. We had a surprise luncheon for her, and it was really fun! We had baked salmon, wild rice, green salad, and chocolate instead of cake. Anyone who knows Brandi understands that. I just have to say how lucky to have such a good friend in my life. Brandi is sweet, fun, funny, understanding, hardworking, dedicated, beautiful, thrifty, strong, a good mom, talented, supportive, smart, and good. Those are just a few of her admirable qualities and I just feel so blessed to have a great pal like her. Sorry, Brandi, I know that probably embarassed you! (because folks, she is also humble.)

And lastly, speaking about food, we had a FHE with Golden's fam earlier this week. For treats, we made nutter butter turkeys. They were kinda hard to make, but cute! Chayse's turned out really well.