Category Archives: Children

Magical Zucchini!

I had always heard jokes about people slipping excess zucchini in unlocked cars and on front porches.  Even in mailboxes.  I never believed it until last night.  My son came home from child care with a MONSTER zucchini.  It was huge.  He told me that someone had placed it in his cubby.  He wasn’t sure where it came from.  I thought maybe it came from the school garden, but really didn’t think it was all that strange.  Then today I
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From Locally Grown Produce to Sweet Potato Ice Cream!

Today I had the pleasure of picking up our CSA bag from Wenninghoff’s.  While I was there, I had fun taking pictures of the beautiful produce and even got to take a tour of the hen house with Amy Wenninghoff .  There were chickens laying eggs, a cute baby chick and an interesting rooster perusing around the house.

      This week we were given sweet corn, yellow squash (see recipe below),
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Great recipes using fresh green beans, broccoli, and zucchini!

This week in our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) bag from Wenninghoff’s we received Nebraska grown broccoli, green beans, zucchini and tomatoes.  I decided to try my hand at making zucchini bread, in the form of muffins so that my children would be more likely to try it.  They really liked it.  Click here to view the "Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread," recipe that I made.  I also made a low calorie version broccoli salad and roasted
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