It's Family Dinner Friday time...
Today we are meeting the Rush family.
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| photo by Betsey Walton Photography |
Robert and Rayna are active in the Family Ministry at our church, Redding First.
Robert is a leader with the 1st-5th grade kids on Wednesday nights, and helps about once a month on Sunday mornings. He was also the group leader for the 5th grade kids last year during our VBS program.
Rayna has served on the MOPS steering team at our church for the past 3 years, volunteers in our church nursery &/or Sunday School classrooms once a month (that was until their most recent baby boy was born 7 weeks ago!). She also served as our VBS coordinator last year, 2011, and is helping with this years new VBS program.
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| sweet baby Carter at 5 days old...photo by Betsey Walton Photography |
Question: How many people are in your family and the ages of the kids?
There are 4 people in our family, us and our two boys, Lincoln age 4 1/2 and Carter 7 weeks
Q: How many times a week do you eat dinner as a family?
Q: How many times a week do you eat dinner as a family?
Almost every night. It is rare that we don't eat as a family, even if that means taking shifts to eat while one of us is holding Carter.
Q: Do you have picky eaters in your family?
Q: Do you have picky eaters in your family?
No, we have always made food a non-issue, so Lincoln tries everything (within reason) at least 3 time and then if he doesn't like it then he doesn't have to eat it. We haven't found much food that he doesn't like even if it means fibbing a bit and telling him shrimp on his plate is just chicken.
Q: Do you have any weekly activities that make dinner together hard?
No, but I am sure that day is coming.
Q: Do you ever feel like NOT making dinner?
Haha, YES I feel like this almost every night, well maybe not the making of the dinner, but the deciding what to have is the hard part for me.
Haha, YES I feel like this almost every night, well maybe not the making of the dinner, but the deciding what to have is the hard part for me.
Q: What is something you think is important about eating together?
That if we make dinner together a priority now then when life gets really crazy with activities and school and friends family dinner will just be the norm for our family and will also help us stay connected with our boys.
Q: Do you have any major dinner time rules?
No electronics at the table and unless its an emergency we don't answer the phone. We have an answering machine and we can call people back.
Q: Where do you grocery shop? And who does the grocery shopping in your family?
We shop at Winco (have to contribute to our retirement) and I do most of the shopping, but since Robert works there, there are times that he brings food home.
Q: It's summer time right now, do you change your menu/cooking habits based on the seasons?
I would say we do more grilling and less baking. The less we can turn on the oven during the summer the better.
Q: And what is one of your favorite throw-down meals (a meal that doesn't take much time to throw together/down)?
I have a few, apple chicken salad (one of Roberts favorites), beef stroganoff, and taco salad.
The meal/recipe that the Rush family is sharing with us today is actually one that our family shared with them earlier this week.
Grilled Pizza
*pre made dough of your choice (we used thin crust Boboli for the adults and then full pita bread rounds for the kids)
*sauce of your choice (kids had a red sauce and adults had a pre-made white sauce from WinCo deli)
*Grated Cheese of your choice (we used mozzarella)
*Toppings of your choice, we used the following
'adult pizza': grilled chopped chicken, fresh spinach, sun dried tomatoes in oil & drained and chopped, canned artichoke hearts drained and chopped, and sliced mozzarella cheese to top
'kids personal pizzas': cheese...that's all they wanted...
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| pre grill |
Preheat your grill.
Cover your 'dough' with sauce, cheese & other toppings
For the 'adult' pizza we turned the grill to low, placed the pizza on and closed it up for about 5-7 minutes until the cheese was melted.
The 'kids' pizzas got a little over-grilled this way, so round 2 for them we turned the grill off and placed the pizzas onto the still hot grill, closed it up and about 5 minutes later the cheese was melted to perfection.
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| all pizza's on the grill |
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| the 'adult' pizza, so very yummy! |
On this journey with you,
Pastor Beau
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