Local Foods Save Gas!

Did you know that if every US citizern ate just one meal a week composed of locally and organiclly raised meat and produce, we would reduce our countries oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week! What a better reason to shop for local food! Please support your local farmers by visiting farmers markest and local veggi stands. Yeah, it takes a little more effort to go to them instead of getting every thing at the store, but you will get a far better product and have a much more positive impact on the plant!

Homemade Pizza

That's right, homemade pizza from scratch and it takes only 30 min from mixing the ingredients for the crust to taking it out of the oven. The secret is in the yeast!

CRUST
1 envelope Fleischmann's Pizza Crust Yeast
1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 tsp Sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
3 TBS Olive Oil
2/3 cup Very Warm Tap Water

1. Preheat oven to 425
2. Mix together ingredients in a bowl
3. Knead dough on a flour surface until smooth and elastic. Using more flour as needed. Needing should only take a few min.
4. Roll out to the shape and size pizza you want.
5. Top it with desired toppings. My family like tomato sauce, motzzerla cheese, garlic, tomatoes, and spinach.
6. Pop in the over for 15 min and enjoy!

While the pizza is cooking it gives you time to clean up your kneading area and whip together a quick salad or side veggie, so it all works perfectly!

3 Ingredient Black Bean Soup

This is a weekly favorite of mine and my families. I really love it because it requires no chopping, only one pot, there are always left overs, and it is really low cal. Oh yeah, and it tastes great!

1 cup salsa (homemade is best, but store bought is fine)
3 cans Black Beans (organic is best)
4 cups soup stock or broth

1. Simmer the cup of salsa for about 5 min on the stove.
2. Drain and rinse the cans of beans.
3. Add the beans and stock to the pot.
4. Simmer for about 15-20 min until good and hot.
5. Garnish with shredded cheese, avocado, or crumbled up tortilla chips (whatever you and your family like). My family and I also like to do quesadilla with it too.

30 Min Dinner From Scratch (or mostly)

In this busy world we as moms often think we are too busy to cook a home cooked meal every night for dinner. Now I understand that many moms do work full time and it can be daunting to think, "Now I have to go home and make dinner too!" but I do think what we put into our bodies is the most important thing we can spend time and effort on. Many dinners can take just as much time to cook from scratch (or mostly from scratch) as it takes to sit in a drive through. Lets face it, we only get one body and we need to take care of it! So I want to share some recipes that I use on nights were time is shparse.