Meatball with mixed fruits sauce.

I like to invent and try to cook different types of food for my twins. They enjoy eating. Every time I ask them if they are hungry, they would run to their high chairs with excitement. As a mom I feel happy to see them like the food I cook for them and feel disappointed when they dislike my cooking. The girls like to feed themselves using their hands. It is quite challenging to come up with finger food each meal. They main carbohydrate dish is usually macaroni and cheese or mixed bean salad. I usually have cantaloupe, peach, pear, apple, banana and extra fruit cups available when I need them. The girls eat pretty much everything I give to them. I was surprised that they prefer steam broccoli and squash to mashed potato. They like chunky food, I assumed.

This morning after we all had breakfast, we took a long walk at nearby park. The girls enjoyed riding in a stroller. We took our dog with us. When we got home, the girls took some milk and went to sleep on a the floor. They are pretty good at putting themselves to sleep. I got some extra time to fix them lunch so I invent this meat ball recipe that I want to share with you. I hope they like it.

Ingredients:

2 lbs ground beef

1 cup cracker or corn chip crumb

1/4 teaspoon salt ( I put more if I make it for myself)

1 egg

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp parsley flake

1 Tbs veg oil

2 tbs corn starch mix with 1/4 cup of water

3 mix dole fruit cup or 1 can chopped pine apple

1 Tbs brownsugar

Direction

Mix ground beef, cracker crumb, salt, egg, garlic powder, parsley flake in a mixing bowl using your hand.

Shape mixture into little balls about 1 inch in diameter.

Heat oil in a nonstick frying pan over medium heat.

Gently fry all the meat balls until lightly brown.

Place meat balls on a plate with paper towel to drain fat.

Discard fat from the frying pan and poor all the fruit cup or pineapple into the pan.

Heat the fruit over medium heat until bubbling.

Add brown sugar and cornstarch mixture, stir until thick and clear in color.

Poor meat ball in the pan, gently mix meat ball and the sauce together until evenly coated.

Serve to yourself or family but cut the meat ball first before you give it to your little baby.

I would add little more salt and sugar if I make it for myself but you use your judgement if you want to try. Let me know how you like it, if you do try. I will find out soon if my girls like it or not, we'll see.

A trip to Atlantic City.

Anchalee and Suwan are drawing on the sand beach

I've never thought that I would have taken my babies to Atlantic City. It seemed to me that it is not suitable for children because of all the hotels and casinos. Before I had the girls, my husband and I occasionally visited Atlantic City. We stayed free in very nice places like Show Boat, Harrah's, Bogarta, Tropicana, Bally's and latest one Caesar's Palace. These places like to catering their members so they often provided us with free rooms, foods, shows, and other things. After took the girls there, I noticed more and more babies that I've never noticed before. We spend more times walking and dinning out on boardwalk rather than playing slots most of the time. It turns out that Atlantic City is working out perfectly for us right now. We can just walk right out on to the board walk without having worry about the cars. My husband and I both agree that we enjoyed spending times with our girls walking and strolling them out in the public. Everywhere we go, people would stop us and comment about how cute the girls are. Anchalee, the younger one and has less hair is often mistaken as a boy! One time, the housekeeping came in the room and asked if she was a girl and Anchalee was wearing a pink skirt!

During the trip we took this time was mostly cloudy which was good for me. I don't like sun. It rained a lot. We went shopping while it was rainning but we covered the stroller with rain cover. The girls were sound asleep while we got wet. One afternoon we went to the beach and got all wet from the wave. Suwan and Anchalee enjoyed walking on the beach and drawing on sand while all the seagulls were gathering all around us. Suwan is now starting to asking all the questions when she sees things. "that?" she would say and point her finger to objects. she won't stop until I answer her, then she would start pointing to another thing again.

My husband always says to me after he looks at the girls when they sleep or awake, "they just break my heart! every time I look at them". How do you ever love someone so much? I can't answer that but I know there will always be more love for these girls.