I'm not going to lie, watching kindergarden kids practice basketball is pretty entertaining...and the fact that their coach is nearly seven feet tall just adds to the visual of these kids.
So when you see the ingredient list do not panic, remember our theme this week is still weeknight and easy, this is a mix and dump recipe for sure.
Add the basil, chicken stock, milk, half and half, pasta sauce, and diced tomatoes to the pot
Add your salt and pepper to taste and garlic powder
Bring to a boil
Pour into your crockpot
Now here's whats up, if you're doing this at the beginning of the day, say before you leave for work, put your crockpot on warm. When you get home stir the mixture, add the tortellini, and put on high for twenty minutes.
If you're going to eat it within the next four hours or so, go ahead and add the tortellini and keep the crockpot on warm.
So in order to make my darling daughter a little less miserable (and slightly more bearable for the rest of us) I have started letting her sleep in later and eat breakfast in the car on the drive to school. So smart right?
Except yesterday she picked an apple to eat and on the way to school secretly decided she didn't want it, so she stuck it in the door and went to school thinking she could eat the school breakfast. Well she did not have time for that, so she tells her teacher she didn't have breakfast....cue my embarrasment....I promise I feed my kids!
So I asked Kaelin what about school breakfast is so great. her answer was, grapes, oranges and yogurt! Challenege accepted little daughter.
Breakfast parfaits
Ingredients
Grapes
Mandarin oranges
Blueberries
Strawberries
Greek yogurt (flavored or plain)
So I started with the greek yogurt on bottom, just a spoonfull or two
Next came the oranges (I just used a can I had in the pantry, but you could totally use Cuties or a regular orange)
Then came the strawberries, blueberries, and I topped with grapes.
I topped with grapes because 1. They are her favorite and 2. She can eat them with her fingers and that makes room for mixing up the yogurt with the fruit.
We grabbed one this morning and it was gone by the time we made it to the school. I think that qualifies as a success! And I may have eaten one myself this morning :-)