Roasted Veggie and goat cheese...YUM!

I had a sandwich at this cute little restaurant in High Point called Grateful Bread...it was a roasted veggie and goat cheese sandwich. So, Tony and I are trying to eat a little healthier so this is the first thing that came to mind. I am roasting the vegetables in the oven right now and it smells so wonderful! I am making a wrap instead of a sandwich...but this would be good as a quesadilla, a wrap, a sandwich, or tossed with angel hair pasta!

Roasted Veggie and Goat Cheese Wraps By Mollie
Mixed fresh vegetables (I used squash, zucchini, carrots, onions, green pepper, and broccoli)
Olive Oil
Seasoning (whatever you like)
Wraps (I used a veg. tortilla..use any kind)
Goat Cheese (any cheese would do...Gorgonzola would be good too)

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees
Cut all veggies into pieces..however..I did it like they do at the Japanese rest.
Put them all on a cookie sheet sprayed with PAM
Sprinkle with olive oil and seasoning (i used Montreal Chicken seasoning ...might want to use Mrs. Dash or other table seasoning to give the veg. flavor)
Roast veggies for 1 hour
Make sure they are tender and a little brown
toss them around a couple times during the hour
Put veggies on the wrap and melt cheese over the vegetables
* I grilled a piece of chicken to put in Tony's wraps!

GREAT tasting and very healthy! E-mail me and let me know if you try this! cofcmollie@aol.com

Sweet Caroline

Caroline with her petal pumps
Caroline in her christening gown..so beautiful! Four generations of Marys: Great grandmother-Mary Evelyn, Grandmother-Mary Forest, Mother-Mary Elizabeth (Mollie) and baby Mary Caroline
Caroline's first snow

Read the literature from the Dr.

Caroline did so great getting her shots yesterday! Like I said I think it hurt me more than it hurt her. They gave us a ton of literature to read on all of the shots that she was getting...that I of course, did not read...BIG oops. Because she woke up this morning with 101 degree temp. and feeling very bad. So I called the dr. office and was put on hold for 25 mins. to talk to a nurse. 25 MINUTES! (glad nothing was really wrong) As soon as I tell the nurse that she had her shots yeterday she asked me if I had "read the sheets they gave us" and I quickly told her that I had not and that they were in the car...so basically I waited for 25 mintues to have the nurse tell me that if I had read my literature that they gave me yesterday I would have seen that a temperature is totally normal after having those shots and to give her Tylenol.
MOM TIP OF THE DAY : Read the stuff they give you at the dr. it will save you a lot of time!
**Coming soon** Melt in your mouth chicken pie recipe!!

From Lent to Meatballs

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. This is the way my ADD mind works...Lent makes me think of church, church makes me think of spaghetti supper, spaghetti makes me think of meatballs...so I made baked spaghetti with meatballs...so easy! I'm taking it to my brother Jason as a small THANK YOU for babysitting all Saturday night for Caroline...he did sooo great!

Meatballs by Mollie

(anything that says "by Mollie" means I threw it together with a mix of recipes and my mothers good advice and it came out good enough to share with other people...ha!)

1 lb. of hamburger meat
1/2 cup of parm. cheese (the kraft, powdery kind)
2 tablespoon of garlic powder ..more if you like garlic
1 large egg (2 if they are small)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of pepper
1 cup of italian bread crumbs
2 tablespoons of creamy horseradish (optional...if you like it)


Mix all of this together...after you add the bread crumbs sprinkle some water on them, just enough to make them a little damp (like a tablespoon or two of water)
Mix and Mash the meat
Roll into balls (golfball size or a little bigger)
Spray PAM on a cookie sheet
Bake Meatballs for 10-15 mins. on 415
Turn meatballs onto other side after 10 mins. let cook for another 5 mins. or so...just make sure they are brown... take the fattest one and use it as a tester, just to make sure it is cooked through...and enjoy.

* To make baked spaghetti...just cook noodles and sauce as usual...then add some sauteed onions and green peppers...toss the noodles, sauce, onions, peppers, some shredded cheese,and garlic powder in a bowl. Put all of this in a casserole dish. Add meatballs on top. Cover with shredded cheese (cheddar or motz or whatever you like) Bake until cheese is melted! YUM!

Babies get lots of shots!

So as a mother I have learned that babies get lots of shots and IT HURTS...the momma way more than it hurts the baby! When you are in the hospital and the baby is first born they come from the nursery with band-aids here and there and you figure they must have drawn blood or given her a shot....BUT NOW...when I have to take her to the doctor for multiple shots...ouch! So as you can tell we have to go to the Caroline's doctor (Dr. Van Winkle) for 5 shots. I am so lucky to have such a great husband though...Tony goes with me everytime and "holds her down". I am not much of a crier or a wus but for some reason, I can't do this...I can't hold her down and watch the nurse stick her 5 times. The screaming in pain is almost more than I can take. So, this is my mom tip of the day... Marry a guy who will go to the dr. with you so you don't have to "hold your baby down" while they are given shot after shot!

Mom keeping a Blog

Well...a mom keeping a blog...seems funny to me! Really, I was just trying to post a comment on a friend's blog and it made me sign up to do that..so here I am..a bloggin mommy. So I think I will post things to prepare my friends for children..since I was basically the first of my friends to get married and the first to have a baby. Believe it or not, I do a lot for just "staying at home"...sounds like such a vacation and to be honest I thought it would be a lot more relaxing. I love getting to spend every second with Caroline though...she is such a blessing!