Month: May 2012

Do You Know What to Expect?

Posted on by Sarah Marshall

For as long as I can remember, it’s been the first book recommended to expectant moms and now its a movie!!

What to Expect When You’re Expecting is coming to theaters today, May 18th and is full of an all-star cast including Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks and a little eye candy in the form of cuties like Chace Crawford and Matthew Morrison.

This movie follows couples in different phases of their journey to parenthood and all the trials and tribulations that entails.

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For more info, check out the Facebook and Twitter pages.

Are you thinking about seeing this movie? Have you read the books?

Disclosure: I was given a book from the What to Expect library in return for this post. All thoughts & opinions are my own.

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Macaroni & Cheese

Posted on by Sarah Marshall


For a long time, I thought being a working mom meant I had to rely on convenience foods. I remember when I was first back to work from maternity leave, Keith and I had chicken patty sandwiches probably 5 nights a week. I shudder now thinking about those little pucks of chicken mush…

As I become a more avid blog reader, I found sites like Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures, Good Cheap Eats, Pioneer Woman and realized that it wasn’t *THAT* hard to make things from scratch. One of the first meals I wanted to master was macaroni and cheese. This recipe is adapted from a Kraft recipe that used Velveeta. I’m not a huge fan of Velveeta so I started by shredding up cheese and swapping that for the Velveeta. From there, the recipe evolved into this!

Macaroni & Cheese

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 3 Tbsp butter
  • 1/4 cup flour I use whole wheat
  • 1 cup milk I use coconut milk
  • 1 Tbsp garlic powder we like garlic so you might adjust this
  • 8 oz shredded cheese
  • 2 cups elbow macaroni

Method
 

  1. Cook macaroni according to the package.
  2. Melt butter in medium saucepan on medium heat. Whisk in flour; cook 2 min., stirring constantly. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to boil; cook and stir 3 to 5 min. or until thickened. Add garlic powder. Add shredded cheese; cook 3 min. or until melted, stirring frequently. Stir in macaroni.
Enjoy!!