Do your kids ever try to tell you jokes? Mine LOVE to tell jokes. Most of them are pretty much the same thing in like 100 different versions. It starts to get hard to give a “realistic” sounding laugh! So, we’ve been looking up kids jokes online and have been telling each other jokes here and there. Just for fun, I’m going to share with you a few of my favorites:

Why did the boy throw the butter out the window? To see the butter-fly ……

My daughter’s personal favorite: How do you make a tissue dance? You put a little boogie in it!

Why do cows wear bells? Because their horns don’t work.

What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground Beef

What do you call a blind dinosaur? A Do-you-think-he-saur-us

Want to hear a pizza joke? Never mind… it’s too cheesy!

HAHAHA… my little girl just GIGGLES at these jokes, which, in turn, makes them quite funny to me!! 🙂

Anywho…. on to food blogging… 🙂

Ok, so, have you ever CRAVED Chinese food… like, eggs rolls, but didn’t want the deep fried fattiness of it, but you DID want the food and flavor? I made egg rolls… “Naked”..!!! No wrapper, no frying, but ALL OF THE FLAVA! Yeah! Seriously, this completely satisfied my craving for Chinese food the other night! DELISH! Give this one a try some night when you’re craving Chinese food, but not the deep fried aspects of it. There is a little bit of chopping vegetables involved… but it’s WORTH IT!

Serves 3-4 people, depending on serving size

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb breakfast sausage (NOT maple flavored, or anything crazy)
• 1/2 head cabbage, chopped/shredded
• 1 cup shredded carrots
• 1/4 cup chopped sweet yellow onion
• 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seed oil
• 1/2 cup soy aminos (or coconut aminos) OR low sodium soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon seasoned rice vinegar
• 1 TB olive oil
• 1/2 cup of chicken broth (or water)
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
• sliced green onion
• 1/2 cup UN-Cooked rice, rinsed and set aside

Cooking Instructions

1. Put the rinsed rice into a rice cooker and put the water suggested on packaging into the rice cooker and close lid and turn on. (OR follow cooking instructions for stove top on the rice packaging.)
2. Start by shredding and chopping your cabbage into thin, bite size pieces.
3. In a large skillet, cook and brown the breakfast sausage. (Do NOT use links, unless they are un-cooked and you remove them from the casing BEFORE you cook them.)
4. Start julienning your carrots. You can either use a cheese shredder, knife or mandolin.
5. Add the olive oil, carrots and onion to the skillet and toss to combine. Let onions start to brown. Stir in the soy sauce, sesame oil, seasoned rice vinegar, chicken broth (or water), garlic, and fresh ginger.
6. Cover and cook until the vegetables are soft, about 15 minutes. Toss in the cabbage during the last 3-5 minutes so it will soften, but not become mushy.
7. Serve over the cooked rice, and garnish with green onion.

ENJOY!

You’ll really like this one, I promise!

And now, for the quote of the day: