Dinner Recipes

This is for those of you who have been asking for more healthy recipes. These past 2 nights my family has raved about dinner so I thought I would share with you. Last night we had Teryaki Salmon. The recipe was for 4 5oz. filets. The teryaki was made with 1/2 cup of vegetable broth, 1/2 cup of white wine, 3 TBSP of brown sugar, 2 TBSP of soy sauce. Boil this on the stove and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour over the salmon and cook each side for 3-4 min. on 350 degrees. I doubled the recipe. I served this with fresh asparagus and a salad made with romaine, yellow peppers, avacado, real bacon bits, fresh crumbled gorgonzola cheese(similiar to crumbly blue) and Good Seasons Italian dressing in the packet. I like the mild italian. I make it with olive or canola oil. It is excellent!
Tonights dinner was Chicken breast cut down the center but not all the way through and open the breast up on each side. I filled it with fresh spinach, ham and colby, monterey cheese. Roll the breast up. Sprinkle seasoning on top. Whatever you like. I used minced onion, garlic powder, salt and pepper. For a grain we had bulgar wheat which resembles rice. I boiled 1 cup in 2 cups of vegetable broth for 40 minutes. You can do so much with bulgar wheat. It is cheap and one of your healthiest grains. It can be cooked with veggies, as a pilaf, or used cold in a salad. We had corn for a veggie and pineapple for dessert.
My family loved everything and they commented on the dinners so much that I had to share these recipes with you. Let me know if you try any of these? I'd like to know what you think.

Homeschooling with Dad.

Today Dad did the homeschooling with Emma. They worked without interruption for 2 hours. For those who don't know, Emma is my hands on kid. She gets side tracked easily and can think of many other things that she would like to be doing beside school. In other words, she is my challenge most days. But today, she worked with Dad.
At first, I cringed a little. He is a school teacher and I found out today that they are not nice, patient and kind everyday either. His tolerance for bologna or lack of effort was little. His tolerance for tears was none. His tolerance for excuses..........there wasn't any. He explained it and told her to," get going". He sat by her side and made sure she didn't dawdle. He praised and encouraged when she completeted the assignment and patiently helped when she was putting forth her best effort. I noticed though that he had zero tolerance for any type of nonsense. At one point, I said, "She really dosen't know those facts, they are a daily struggle." He told me, "she should know these facts and she will know these facts." By the end of the math lesson, she knew the facts. Facts I have been working on with her for weeks. He sat by her side and made her review them over and over and showed her how to figure them out. He did not allow her to give up or whine or say, "I can't." He told her, "You can and you will."
It's amazing to me that she pulled through every assigment with flying colors when it was determined ahead of time by Dad that school was not optional. She would do it and excellent attitude and behavior was expected. There would be no breaks until school was finished. He explained to her that in the classroom he worked with his 4th graders from 8-10:30 in the morning and from 12-2:30 in the afternoon with no breaks. Their break was specials and lunch from 10:30-12:oo each day. This meant 2 hours a day of work did not need a break. School was over by 11:00 this morning and now Emma and Dad went out on a lunch date to just be together. Emma was happy and knew her boundaries. Dad was excited to be done with school and excited to spend sometime with his daughter. I was impressed and the rest of the house stayed peaceful because one little girl got some tough love this morning and was not allowed to ruin the rest of the families morning by thinking, " I can't!"
Husbands are wonderful leaders and often times they know the perfect solution to complicated situtations. Praise God for them!