From My Girlfriends Kitchen: Crumb Mush

Sometimes knowing that other women, mothers, sisters, friends, and care takers just like us face the same battles of what to make for dinner. Be it our task/chore/burden/or hobby of what to make for our families to eat each day sometimes it just seem easier to bear when you have a good recipe recommended from a "GIRLFRIEND"; they provide us with the boost to get over the lack of motivation or stumbling blocks in our way and get dinner on the table!

The number of those who report that their “whole family usually eats dinner together” has declined 33 percent. This is most concerning because the time a family spends together “eating meals at home [is] the strongest predictor of children’s academic achievement and psychological adjustment.”

Family mealtimes have also been shown to be a strong bulwark against children’s smoking, drinking, or using drugs. There is inspired wisdom in this advice to parents: what your children really want for dinner is you.

Elder Dallin H. Oaks Good, Better, Best (Nov. 2007)

Two researchers at the University of Minnesota investigated the potential benefits of family mealtimes on children and found that families that dine together tend to have healthier, more well-adjusted children. Their studies indicate that the more often children and teens west with their parents—and the happier, more structured these mealtimes are—the more the children gain these benefits:

Better Nutrition

Better language and literacy

Fewer Eating Disorders

Fewer risky behaviors

The national center on addiction and substance abuse at Columbia University (sept 2005) found that compared with teens who dine frequently with their families (Five to seven dinners a week), teens who have fewer than three family dinners per week are:

Two and a half times likelier to smoke cigarettes

More than on e and a half times likelier to drink alcohol.

Almost three times likelier to try marijuana

“….Mealtime becomes a way for families to bond. To show children they have access to a caring adult.” (The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner p. 11)

So as Women, Sisters, Daughters, Wives, Mothers, Grandmothers we can not put a price on the work that we do. Dinner hours and menus can be daunting at times and others it feels like a breeze. As we gather together and share in our love for caring for our families and enjoying the connections we have with them as we sit around the dinner tables of our homes. I hope that each of us can step back occasionally on those hard mommy days and “Believe in what we are doing! Believing in who we are and that we can make a difference one meal at a time.

~ Jill

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Crumb Mush

This is one of our favorite breakfast dishes, especially once the weather gets cold! It doesn’t sound like much, but it really is delicious! But I will say that people either love it or hate it!

Crumb Mush-Sharla Parks

1 cube butter

1 15 oz. container plain bread crumbs

2 quarts milk

1 tsp salt

2 cups flour

Sugar

Creamer of choice (our favorite is Cold Stone Sweet Cream flavor, but you can also use plain old half and half if you want)

Melt butter in saucepan, then brown bread crumbs. Watch them carefully and stir often!

In a large pot combine Milk, flour, and salt. Stir frequently and cook until thick.

To serve: fill bowl with a scoop of the thickened milk mixture. Sprinkle a generous scoop of bread crumbs on top. Sprinkle sugar over the crumbs (if you are using a flavored creamer you can leave the sugar off if you want!). Pour creamer on top.

The trick of this dish is NOT to stir it all together! When you eat it it’s important to get a little of everything in each bite, otherwise it can be bland. (you may have to add more crumbs, or creamer as you eat it!) It is kind of an art ☺ but oh so worth it!

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