http://www.lauraleighparker.com Life Overseas {a missionary blogs of life in Asia} Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:05:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/88ea54a0b2c7b923e211db41c950105b.png?s=48 http://www.lauraleighparker.com http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/how-to-get-kids-to-eat-more-vegetables/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/how-to-get-kids-to-eat-more-vegetables/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:12:52 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=5454 Having a hard time pushing the vegetables onto the daily menu at your house?  Struggling with kids who won’t eat their greens, even if it means “no dessert for a month, mister!?” Sometimes dinnertime can become a warzone, and then no one’s happy eating anything, anyway, and the meal you worked so hard to make [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2011/09/how-to-get-kids-to-eat-more-vegetables/feed/ 18 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/low-cal-super-cheap-vegetarian-soup/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/low-cal-super-cheap-vegetarian-soup/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:35:14 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=626 Enjoy this super-cheap recipe for Black Bean soup that was inspired from the magazine Eating Well.  Each serving is under 200 calories and costs about 70 cents.   Even better, it only took about 10 minutes to make, from start to finish.   That’s my kind of meal.  Enjoy. Black Bean Soup Sautee a chopped onion, few stalks of [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/low-cal-super-cheap-vegetarian-soup/feed/ 1 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/ranch-hummus/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/ranch-hummus/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:39:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=401 Here’s a super simple hummus recipe that I did this week for the family.  Since we are veggies-dipped-in-ranch fans, I added a packet of dry ranch dressing to the hummus.  I told the kids jokingly when I served it that the dip was “just like a thick ranch.”  They didn’t buy it, but they did [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/ranch-hummus/feed/ 0 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/a-warm-salad/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/a-warm-salad/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:50:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=394 Tired of eating regular salads and needing to work off the seven pounds you gained over the holidays?  (Oh, wait, that’s me,  not you.)  Anyway, check out this super-different salad we fixed this weekend at our house.  It takes a bit more effort than your average toss-it-all-together salad, but it’s worth the extra ten minutes.  [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2010/01/a-warm-salad/feed/ 0 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/10/kickin-it-with-kale/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/10/kickin-it-with-kale/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:42:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=343 (I know, lame title.  But how else can you make a green vegetable sound exciting?) I so admire healthy people.  Really.  But if you are like me, you would only eat a green like kale if your grandmother who lives in the south makes you on New Year’s Day along with Black Eyed Peas (yes, [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/10/kickin-it-with-kale/feed/ 2 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/09/cobbler-a-kid-can-make-and-a-diabetic-and-vegan-can-eat/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/09/cobbler-a-kid-can-make-and-a-diabetic-and-vegan-can-eat/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:08:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=322  Here’s a super simple cobbler I threw together last week when the couple coming over for dessert and coffee was diabetic.   We came up with an apple and peach cobbler that was so good I fixed it (actually Kelty fixed it) the following night for the family.  I will be honest and say that it does not compare [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/09/cobbler-a-kid-can-make-and-a-diabetic-and-vegan-can-eat/feed/ 2 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/09/lemon-dill-salmon/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/09/lemon-dill-salmon/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:05:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=312 Enjoy this easy recipe, again gleaned from memory from some health magazine I was trying to read at the gym on the ol’ treadmill.  Like all recipes I try to share, it requires very little ingredients (good for a tight budget) and is fairly quick and simple to put together (good for a busy mom [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/09/lemon-dill-salmon/feed/ 0 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/08/tomato-melts/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/08/tomato-melts/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:18:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=303 As a final reminder of summer, try these easy, low-cal, super heart-healthy, vegetarian sandwiches for lunch one day.  Tomato Melts 1 english muffin 1 avocado 1 vine-ripe tomato salt, fresh ground pepper sprinkles of goat cheese Split an english muffin and spread with ripe avocado.  Top with slices of tomato, salt, pepper, and a few [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/08/tomato-melts/feed/ 4 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/08/easy-veggie-lasagna/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/08/easy-veggie-lasagna/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:58:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=295 This is one of my favorite vegetarian recipes. I remember back in college when Jennifer K. wrote it down on a little piece of note paper for me. After 10 years, I still have that little slip of paper tucked away in my cookbook. This is a fantastic way to make one dish for dinner, [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/08/easy-veggie-lasagna/feed/ 1 http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/07/two-summer-recipes/ http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/07/two-summer-recipes/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:28:00 +0000 Laura http://www.lauraleighparker.com/?p=268 So I was reminded recently of a recipe I learned at a Vegan Cooking Class I took once from my amazing friend Pippi. I don’t know about you, but I had never even heard of quinoa before the class, much less tasted it, much lesser [I know Mom, that's not proper English ]cooked it. However, [...]]]> http://www.lauraleighparker.com/2009/07/two-summer-recipes/feed/ 1