Lemon and Brown Butter Fish Fillets

Here's a recipe for pan fried fish that my boys both love!  They even like the lemon butter sauce now.  :)

Lemon and Brown Butter Fish Fillets

It's a Rachel Ray recipe, and it's so good!  She does the meal with seared grape tomatoes, but we didn't like those.  So we always have this meal with crusty bread or boiled potatoes with butter and parsley.  Yummo!!!

2 T. extra virgin olive oil

1/4 c. fresh flat-leaf parsley

4 6oz fish fillets (we use tilapia)

flour for dredging

salt and pepper

4 T. cold unsalted butter

juice of 1 lemon

1.  Season fish with salt and pepper then dredge in flour.

2.  Heat oil in a large skillet.

3.  Shake off excess flour from the fish and add to the skillet.

4.  Cook for 4-5 minutes on each side.  Set fish aside and cover to keep warm.

5.  Wipe the skillet clean and return to the cook-top over medium-high heat.

6.  Melt butter until it is brown and smells slightly nutty.

7.  Add the lemon juice and parsley.

8.  Serve fish with sauce.

[from Kristi]

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Will absolutely LOVES anything by Dr. Praeger (spinach pancakes, veggie burgers, broccoli pancakes, sweet potato pancakes, etc). You find them at Whole Foods. They're all natural and so easy to prepare. If he's behind on veggies, I'll sometimes make him an all veggie meal of those and he just gobbles them up.


[from Ann]

Val's Pasta Dinner

Okay, here is something I made up back in the good ole poor college days. I love it. DH loves it. Kids love it. Everyone I feed it to loves it.

VAL'S PASTA DINNER

Curly pasta noodles
Italian Dressing
Parmesean Cheese (the dried kind really is best--it adds good texture)

That is all you need. Everything beyond that is bonus. I really like sauteed mushrooms mixed in with it. Yum.

Cook the noodles to your liking. Put them in a bowl. Pour some Italian dressing over it. Sprinkle some parmesean cheese. Hopefully you are adding mushrooms, but if not, that will be okay. Eat and enjoy! My kids like this way better than macaroni and cheese. Oh, and I  use whole wheat pasta.

[from Valerie]

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Erik's favorite food is pb&j.  He also loves fish.  David's favorite is peas.  Seriously.  He also really likes beans.

English muffins pizzas are a hit.  Even my husband thinks they're great.  You just split the english muffins and toast them.  Then spread pizza sauce and sprinkle with cheese.  Bake them in the oven on broil for just a few minutes to melt the cheese.  You can add toppings too (we like spinach, mushrooms, ground beef, pepperoni) or just do cheese.

[from Kristi]

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Classic: Peanut Butter and Jelly for Brayden and Peanut Butter and Honey for Kaitlyn.

Brayden also loves Hamburgers and Brayden and McKenna love hot dogs.

Brayden loves this that I shared before:http://babywisegraduatesstuff.blogspot.com/2010/06/cheeseburger-pasta.html

Brayden also loves BBQ chicken sandwhiches:http://babywisegraduatesstuff.blogspot.com/2010/06/bbq-chicken-sandwiches.html

Kaitlyn loves Macaroni & Cheese. She also loves corn on the cob.

McKenna loves anything you can eat...and even some stuff you shouldn't :)

Oh yeah! My kids love pizza too.

Brayden is also a major salad lover.

Pasta salad is a big hit.

All things pasta are a big hit.

And pancakes. They love that buttermilk pancake recipe Raegan shared:http://babywisegraduatesstuff.blogspot.com/2010/06/buttermilk-pancakes.html

[from Valerie]

Kid Favorites: Pizza

Pizza!! We love the whole wheat crust from trader joe's. Holden doesn't care as long as it's "pizza" he'll eat it.

One day, I was having leftover pizza for lunch, but there wasn't enough for both of us. I knew he would never let me eat it in peace if he couldn't have some, so I made a "pizza" with an open faced omelet, cheddar cheese and turkey pepperoni. Sounds gross, but I called it pizza and he loved it! haha

[from Colleen]

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Joshua will eat most things that aren't vegetables or casseroles. If they are one of those two things he'll eat it about 50% of the time. His favorites, from the first time I gave them to him are mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, fries. It's amazing, it's like some inborn gene that makes them like that junk! Besides that, his favorites are rice, white meat, pb and jelly sandwhiches, bananas, animal crackers, chocolate milk (I add lilke 1/6th the suggested amount of carnation instant breakfast to normal milk for him)


[from Rachel]

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Sophia is very picky, so this list won't be very long!!! Actually, she is odd in that many toddlers like the same things day after day, but Sophia really likes variety. Even if she loves something, I cannot serve it more than once a week and expect her to eat it with the same gusto!

Avocados

Morning Star sausage patties

Blueberry Waffles

Strawberries, Blueberries, Craisens (dried cranberries).

Peanut Butter Sandwich

Graham Crackers

Fettucini Alfredo

Her all time fave dinner is: Grilled Salmon, Rosemary Carrots, and Mashed Potatoes.

When we go out to eat at a restaraunt, she usually gobbles up the food and eats very well. She eats off our plates (17 months old - no need for the kids menu, and plus I think she prefers adult food anyway).  She just loves variety!

[from Amy]

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Caleb loves when I make zucchini bread.  I used to always make it before long trips because I thought at least he would be getting some veggies en route.  DH loves it too and he HATES veggies.  I should probably make it more often.

I mentioned the Beans and avocado dip/filling that Caleb helps me make and loves, on pita bread/tortillas for a meal or on triskits for a snack. 

DH makes an avocado shake that Caleb loves. 

Right now we're into using the blender.  I'll make "sorbet" (blend frozen fruit) or a smoothie (same idea but thin enough to drink through a straw).

I'm really interested to hear about ideas for dinners/lunches!

[from improvingmama]

Kid Favorites: Nachos

A favourite at our house is nachos - Kels thinks its awesome to get chips for dinner!! I do it one of 2 ways.

One way is to brown some ground hamburger with taco seasoning. Lay nacho chips on our pizza stone, cover in cooked hamburger, top with cheese, and bake. serve guacamole, salsa & sour cream on the side.

The other way is to make up a whole chili/nacho mixture (hamburger, beans, tomatoes etc) and serve either baked with the chips or on the side for dipping in the chips.

I should note, however, that I found that Morgan is only just barely able to manage nacho chips (18 mo) as before she'd always manage to choke at least once during  ameal... ooops..

[from Harmony]

Kid Favorites 2

Anything that doesn't move. Really. My kids eat an alarming amount of food. Today Ellie has had a plum, 3 bananas, blueberries, 3 eggs, some chips, raisins. I'm sure there was more but she's seeming to feel "off" today so this wasn't quite her norm. We keeps tons of fruit in the house, I make muffins/breads like pumpkin muffins and banana bread, rice cakes, marshmallows are a special treat, certain dried cereals, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.


[from JBSWANK]

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Avery will pretty much eat everything that we eat. He's not so fond of meat though, but he'll eat anything else.

His favorites are the usual stand bys though.  macaroni and cheese, pancakes, carrots, any berry, bread....

[from Christine]