Food Archives - Growing Up Gabel

Fried Ice Cream for a Crowd #SundaySupper

May 5, 2013 by Camille 48 Comments

Fried Ice cream is one of my all time favorite desserts! But a deep fried ice cream recipe just seems like a bit much even for me. So we're faking it instead. A vanilla ice cream mixture is enveloped by a crunchy cereal crust creating an amazing fried ice cream look alike that is perfect for a Cinco de Mayo crowd! This week's Sunday Supper is celebrating Cinco de Mayo! I have quite a few Mexican recipes including refried beans, enchiladas, and even sangria. But what I really want when I eat Mexican food is fried ice cream. When I ran across this recipe on Pinterest, I had to try it. I adapted the recipe to use homemade whipped cream and homemade chocolate sauce. The fried ice cream was a huge hit with my extended family. My very health conscious sister complained that I gave her too small a piece. Next time I'll add more cinnamon to the ice cream mixture - probably another teaspoon because it was hard to taste with the topping. I also will give myself ... [read more]

Filed Under: Cinco de Mayo, Desserts, Recipe, Sunday Supper, Uncategorized Tagged With: #SundaySupper, Cinco de Mayo, fried ice cream

Homemade Pizza Making Giveaway

May 2, 2013 by Camille 3 Comments

Homemade pizza is one of my all time favorite meals to make at home. My current favorite is Three Cheese Garden Pizza - full of veggies and perfect for summer. My kids really love Garlic Bread Pizza. We have a very well used pizza stone although during the summer our grill is our pizza oven. I love that the best pizza in town is made in our own kitchen! In honor of homemade pizza, I have joined Pinch This Stretch That and Homecooking Memories to help giveaway a homemade pizza making kit! The prize pack will include the following items: A VIP coupon for one FREE Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust with Whole Grain 15.5″ Farberware Pizza Pan Food Chopper with Storage Containers Silicon-grip Oven Mitt Here are all of the details of the giveaway and how to enter. Special Thanks to our sponsors… The prize pack and giveaway have been provided by General Mills and Pillsbury through MyBlogSpark. a Rafflecopter giveaway ... [read more]

Filed Under: Cooking, Food, Giveaways

How To Make Money By Shopping at Vons

May 1, 2013 by Camille 3 Comments

Did you know Vons grocery store has a brand new fuel rewards program? They do and I got to try it out! Vons sent me a gift card to go shopping and rack up some fuel rewards. I love making my money go further and Vons Fuel Rewards helps me do that. Like it or not, we all have to eat. In order to eat we have to shop for food. As a homeschooling mom of two, sometimes the trip to the grocery store alone is like a mini-vacation! And is it just us or does every single date night also include a stop at the grocery store? I know you do it, too! So yes, we spend a lot of our time grocery shopping. As prices on just about everything have continued to rise, I have done more and more to stretch our pennies. I use coupons when I can, but a lot of the foods we eat are organic and don't have many coupons. If I can't save money when I grocery shop, I try to make money. One way to do that is to use a shopping rewards program like Vons Gas Rewards. For every $1 that you ... [read more]

Filed Under: Food, Giveaways, Homemaking Tagged With: #FueledbyVons, fuel rewards, gas rewards, shopping rewards, vons

Baked Tilapia with Parmesan Basil Sauce #SundaySupper

April 27, 2013 by Camille 39 Comments

Baked tilapia can be on your dinner table in about 15 minutes! This is the epitome of a quick and easy meal. Tilapia fillets are covered in a delicious Parmesan basil spread made from basic pantry ingredients. Broil the fillets for less than 10 minutes and serve. This week's Sunday Supper's theme is New Adventures. Each of the participants this week are conquering a new cooking adventure and yes, mine is fish! I don't have any fish recipes to call my own other than some awesome shrimp recipes and one sashimi salmon recipe. Usually when we have fish my husband cooks it on the grill. Up until I made this baked tilapia, I had never bothered to figure out how to cook fish. But oh how things have changed. This recipe was amazing and it was so simple to throw together. I used fresh basil in the spread on top of the fish because I have a nice little basil plant growing on my front porch. But dried basil will work, too. Baked Tilapia with Parmesan Basil ... [read more]

Filed Under: Food, Recipe, seafood, Uncategorized Tagged With: baked fish, broiled fish, broiled tilapia, Fish, slider

Help Support Organic Farming!

April 26, 2013 by Camille Leave a Comment

Sign this petition in support of local and organic farmers! The campaign ends Monday so sign now! [embedit snippet="takepart"] I generally don't post about politics. I love politics, but you know... things can get mean really quickly when talking about politics. But when Take Part asked if I'd share their organic farming petition with you, I just couldn't say no. Locally grown organic produce is near and dear to my heart. I grew up in a farming community where dairy cows and asparagus fields are part of the rhythms of life. I do everything I can to buy as much as our food from local farmers either on their farm (yes, we have some right in Vegas!) or at a farmer's market. Below is more information about the petition. You will need to include your name, email and an address when signing the petition. It's a way for Congress to verify that the people signing it are real. Congress will soon vote on a new farm bill - the federal measure with ... [read more]

Filed Under: Food, Uncategorized Tagged With: farm, local food, organic food, petition