Mushrooms

We have funny little mushrooms coming up in the woods around our house. They are all so unique. I am amazed at how quickly they will pop up... in the strangest places too.  Makes me think of an episode of Jamie Oliver's cooking show where he foraged for edible wild mushrooms in the forest near his house.  It was kind of cool, although I would be too freaked out to ever eat wild mushrooms...even if I knew which ones were safe.  I'll settle for admiring them from afar.

Homemade Bread & Lentil Soup

I have been disgusted by chicken so far while I've been pregnant.  Since most of my recipes include chicken, I've been having to come up with healthy meals that involve other kinds of meat or no meat.  This meal turned out ok.
The recipe for the bread is from the book "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" that I got from the library. Mine always seems to turn out kind of lopsided. 
The lentil soup recipe can be found here.  It was pretty tasty. I especially liked the flavor from the vinegar added at the end.

If you have any chicken-less dinner recipes that are good, feel free to send them my way.

We've Made It

Well, we haven't quite made it, but at least we're through the scary first trimester.  There is a risk with twins that something can go wrong with one of them in the first few months. I was prepared. But I got to see them this past week, and they were both measuring a week larger than they should be, and they had nice strong heartbeats (and they looked like real babies)!  Thank God, thank God, thank God.

I feel like I can go ahead and read the twin books, and buy two sets of things, and keep eating for three, because we really have two babies coming this spring! 

Here we all are at 13 weeks:

(sorry about the fuzzy-ness)