It is time for another Everyday Adventures post!
I started sharing Everyday Adventures posts in 2014 as a way to give a glimpse into my life outside the kitchen. It was a fun way to share non-food things with you.
I shared about life in the country, what I was reading, things that my family was doing, and more.
I used to share these posts all the time. Then I started sharing them a few times a year. My last Everyday Adventures post was way back in 2022.
My friend Jessica from Life As Mom and I were recently discussing how much we miss the old-school type of blogging. We don’t miss everything about old-school blogging, but we do miss the sharing of everyday life and ordinary things.
Social media changed the way people write on their websites. And although I see the purpose of social media, there is so much about it that I don’t like.
As I was thinking about these things, I received an email from a long-time reader asking if I was ever going to go back to sharing more real-life things again.
That email was the motivation I needed to get back to sharing my Everyday Adventures posts.
When I started Lynn’s Kitchen Adventures, my kids were six, eight, and ten. My kids are now all college graduates with jobs and lives of their own. My kids have never been the focus of my site, and I rarely shared pictures of them, but I did occasionally share about them in my posts.
It has been a few years since I shared much about my kids. So, a quick update on my kids is that they are now all college graduates with jobs and lives of their own. My girls live close by, but my son moved out of state for a job earlier this year.
That means it is just my husband and me most of the time. In many ways, my cooking has changed, but in many ways it hasn’t.
I still love quick and easy meals. I also still love to come up with gluten free recipes that are so good no one will know they are gluten free.
What’s For Dinner
I need to get better about taking pictures of our everyday meals, but I do have a few that I have taken recently.
When our kids were at home I made homemade pizza almost every Friday night. Now that it is just my husband and me eating dinner most Friday nights, I often grab a frozen cauliflower-crust pizza from Costco or an Aldi gluten-free take-and-bake pizza.
I still make my homemade gluten-free pizza crust at least once a month, but when I want quick and easy, I buy it premade.
I have made my favorite gluten free chocolate chip cookies several times recently.
Last week I made several gluten free meatloaves for the freezer. I love to have them in the freezer for easy dinners.
I also made my favorite chili recipe for a church lunch last week. The recipe is a beanless chili, but since I was serving a crowd, I added a couple of cans of beans to it.
Life Recently
This is a picture from this summer, but I had to share it. When we were visiting my family, we went to Powell’s bookstore. When my daughter found out that Petunia’s was a completely gluten-free and dairy-free bakery and ice cream shop, located near Powell’s, we knew we had to go.
It was delicious! I have not had a waffle cone since I started eating gluten free back in 2009. It was amazing. If you eat gluten free or dairy free and visit Portland, be sure to stop at Petunia’s.
Long-time readers may remember our kitchen remodel, which we did about ten years ago. Well, we recently did a little bit of an update.
We had our island cut down to take the bar part off, and we moved it to the middle of the kitchen.
We then took an old table that we had, bought some new chairs, and put it where the island used to be.
I love it! It was a little change that made a huge difference.
I have not talked a lot about it online, but the last five years have been very difficult for me health wise. I had Covid multiple times and have long Covid. I have had lung and heart issues, along with horrible fatigue.
After working with multiple doctors, a dietician, and a trainer, along with making dietary changes and taking numerous supplements and other measures, such as dry needling, I am finally seeing some improvement in my health. I am not back to running, but the fact that I can walk three and a half miles is a huge improvement.
Sometimes I feel like getting my health back has turned into a full-time job.
What I Am Loving
If you are gluten free, you know how hard gluten free bouillion, onion soup mix, and similar seasonings are to find. Last winter, I tried Clean Monday’s beef bouillon and ramen seasoning and loved them.
What I Am Reading
Not only do I love food and cooking, but I also love to read.
If you love to read like I do, be sure to check out my book website, From Our Bookshelf. I share book reviews, book lists, and all kinds of bookish things.
I share all kinds of things like what I read each month, book lists like the best medical memoirs, Fiction Friday, Sunday Reading, and more.
I also have a bookish email newsletter that I send out once or twice a week.
I hope you enjoyed a glimpse into my life beyond food and cooking. Should I share more posts like this?
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