Here is a fun and healthy snack your kiddos will enjoy making and eating.


Take some fresh strawberries and wash and trim off the green leaves from each. Wash and dry some popsicle sticks and let your little ones push three strawberries through each stick. Place on wax paper and freeze . Once they are frozen you can transfer your Strawberry pops into freezer bags for snacking later. These work well with pretty much any fruit, my faves or grapes and watermelon. Yum!

My mom lives in San Diego very near the Tijuana, Mexico border and she is always raving about Tijuana style hotdogs. These are sold by street vendors in Tijuana and also near the border and let me tell you they are freakin' delicious! When I told Chris I was going to make him a Tijuana hotdog for dinner he was not the least impressed, in fact he had his doubts but after trying one of these dogs we have both decided that this is our new favorite way to eat a hotdog.

Tijuana Hotdog

Buns
Beef hotdogs
Bacon
Beans, cooked (pinto beans not refried)
*Salsa made with chopped tomatoes, chopped jalapenos or Serrano's, chopped white onion*
Mayonnaise

Wrap a bacon strip around each hotdog and fry in a pan until crispy. Spread mayo on the bun. Put bacon wrapped hotdog in bun, top with hot beans and salsa. Enjoy!

Penelope decided she would like to be a ghost for Halloween. I really don't know what her obsession with ghosts is right now but I tried showing her some really cute costumes and  all she says is "no, I want to be a ghost". *sigh*

Fall in Alaska

This was Penelope's lunch yesterday. The letter of the week was G so I made her a G turkey and cheese sandwich over a bed of (G)reen. Romaine and snow peas and yes she even ate the lettuce. I told her she didn't have to but she said "I want to mommy, lettuce is good". She also had pear balls (I used a melon baller), pumpkin nuts (Penelope's name for pumpkin seeds), and a gingerman cookie or Ratchet, Penelope's name for this particular gingerman. I have no idea where she got this name from but every time she would take a bite out of Ratchet the gingerman she would tell me which part of his anatomy she was eating. She's a strange little one. ;)

When we were in Vegas Chris and I had dinner one night at Otto in the Venetian. I had a really yummy Arugula salad, my first one. It was fresh Arugula with shaved Parmesan and an olive oil dressing. Very simple but really good. Since I had some Arugula in the fridge I decided to make a salad for dinner tonight only kicked up a notch.