any ideas???

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kids and spent Saturday cleaning out cupboards and organizing

them. we found some stuff that we don't know what to do with--dried

chestnuts and dried Chinese hot peppers. can the chili peppers be

ground into some kind of seasoning--I think I bought them for kung

po meat-based dish but that's not an option now. chestnuts have

directions on how to re-hydrate but I can't read Chinese : ). any

ideas on what to use them for or do I just toss'em ?

 

kids found a PETA booklet with some pictures in it and decided

meat is nasty : ). they finally made the meat-to-plate connection. I

explained sometimes that it is hard to do that because the meat in

the grocery store rarely looks like the animal it came from. I

assured them there are plenty of alternatives to the few meat-based

things they like if they want to grocery shop with me sometime. they

are very excited : ). we will likely be packing lunches also

now : ). they enjoyed the TVP tacos I think that are in the Files--

even our newly 9-year-old who has severe texture issues with food.

we used the leftover TVP with the Simple sauce in Files to make a

cheater's lasagna for supper. I have neve seen the kids eat so much

at one sitting : ).

 

we baked a brownie recipe from one of the Moosewood cookbooks and

wow were they fantastic and gooey. I will check to see if it is in

the Files and if not post them. kids are still drooling over

them : )......take care : )............

 

Anne