Easy, healthly, AND delicious?

(Disclaimer: This picture is not from my kitchen, just the best looking lettuce
wrap image I could find online. I don't take good pictures of food.)

I got this recipe for lettuce wraps from an enrichment and finally decided to try it out. It was much easier than I expected, and, once you make the sauce, having it again is even easier. There is a lot of room to make it your own with meat and veggie options. Here it is:

Lettuce Wraps

What I used:

-finely chopped chicken (2 breasts) marinated in teriyaki sauce and cooked
-chopped carrots
-chopped celery
-chopped green onions
-grated zucchini
-peanuts
-chow mien noodles (the crunchy kind that comes in a can)


What I left out - but was part of the recipe:

-pineapple pieces
-sauteed mushrooms
-sauteed onions
-fried onions (the crunchy kind that comes in a can)
-rice, seasoned with teriyaki sauce (I would have used this but somehow skipped over it while reading the recipe... ooops! But it was still really tasty without it)


Build your wrap however you want on a big piece of lettuce (I used Romaine). Then, top with my favorite part:

Thai Peanut Sauce with Honey

Add the following ingredients to a blender, then blend until smooth.
-1/4 cup honey
-1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
-3 tbs soy sauce
-2 tbs rice vinegar
-2 tbs extra-virgin olive oil
-2 tsp minced garlic
-1 tbs grated ginger root
-1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

After having the wraps for dinner one night, we used the sauce a few more times in wraps or salads with whatever else was leftover. It's so flavorful that a little goes a long way.

Yum.

Some days call for hunkering down

A couple of weeks ago it was really yucky outside. So what better to do than build a fort! The part that actually made it happen what that Duffy said "OK, let's do it." So...


It turns out I have a lot more experience in fort-building than Duffy (chalk it up to my years spent as a babysitter combined with my childhood fascination with forts - they were one of my favorite things to build/play in.) So I did most of the building.

Key features:

• Big enough to fit a mattress (our spare twin)
• Angled for optimal TV viewing (we watched Eagle Eye)
• Simple and reliable structure
• Tall enough to sit up in (pretty much)
  

(This picture was taken from the TV stand. Thank you auto-timer!)

We watched the movie, and yes, definitely slept the whole night on the tiny twin mattress. You can't really tell in the pictures, but the fort was just barely wide enough to fit the mattress. Somehow, though, Harper managed to squeeze in the fort along the side between the chairs and the mattress and hung out with us. He's so cool.