My Life As A Mom: May 2012

Quick N' Easy Ravioli dinner

This is something very easy to make when you don't have a lot of time to make dindin. Which I really don't because I have to rush around, clean dishes, make dinner, make baby dinner, feed me, feed baby, bathe baby, then dress baby in pj's then feed baby booby then burp baby and put to bed. AHH! It's hectic, so most of the time, I'm trying to find easy ways to prep dinner.
All you need for this is:
-Can tomato sauce
-Can diced tomatoes
-Cheddar cheese
-Frozen Ravioli
-And any seasoning you like.
I almost always use:
-Garlic powder
-Onion powder
-Italian seasoning
-Salt and pepper

Just mix everything in a baking dish. Put oven to 350 and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until it's nice and bubbly and the cheese is melted.

Serve with some veggies and voila!

Fruit and Yogurt Parfaits.

This was very easy. Just get some fresh fruit and clean and cut. Then some low fat vanilla yogurt and granola. Easy, peasy.

Homemade cinnamon rolls

Using the same dough as for bread, I ended up making cinnamon rolls. I rolled out the dough and spread some melted butter on top.
Then I mixed cinnamon and brown sugar together and sprinkled that on top.
Just roll it into a log then cut it into 2 inch pieces, spread out on a baking pan then bake.
I topped them with some homemade cream cheese frosting.
They were very good except next time I will not be so stingy on the brown sugar/cinnamon spread.

My attempts at making bread from scratch...

My first attempt at making bread was pretty successful except I didn't have the right utensils and didn't follow one part of the instruction. I didn't knead the dough nearly as much as I needed to and I didn't have a bread baking pan. I just used an oven dish.