Please give a hearty welcome to my daughter, who will be giving us her opinion of my menu plan each week. We will post her thoughts on Sundays, and she will highlight a dish or two she felt was particularly noteworthy (or not!). I will help her with the photos and layout, but the text [...]
Check out this lemonade stand! Isn’t it just the cutest? We won it this weekend at the auction to benefit our kids’ schools, and I could not be happier. Love the design, the vintage lemon pictures and the basket of goodies that came with. Very creative and the kids will have a great time this [...]
Not sure how it works at your house, but pancakes and waffles are a big deal around here. I think my kids would probably have them every day of the week, they love them so! A few years ago, I was introduced to the Danish treat of Aebleskiver, (also written as Ebleskiver) a round puffed-pancake. [...]
Hersheys Chocolate PB Cookies Be sure to enter the Cuisipro and Vacu Vin Giveaway. A flour sifter would be a great kitchen gadget for this recipe! I am sure you have seen this recipe, it has been in all my cooking magazines over the last 2 months. Today, we finally got around to making them [...]
dsc_0125 My son has been coming home from school “starving” and I worry that crackers and fruit are not cutting it. I want him to have a little protein, something nutritious that will hold him until dinner. And I wanted to find a recipe that my daughter could help with; she loves helping me in [...]
Growing up, I remember cooking often with my Mom, but for some reason, this specific recipe really sticks in my mind. I was in elementary school, and a Girl Scout, and we had to do our cooking badge. I am not sure if my Mom took the afternoon off from work, or if we did [...]
Last month, while galavanting in the islands on vacation, I received email from Cynthia inviting me to participate in a blogger meet-up, sponsored by Zespri Kiwifruit. Since I was out of town, I had to miss the festive event (bummer, since Biggie from Lunch in A Box was there, and Charlie Ayers of Calafia Cafe [...]
My kids helped me cook dinner this weekend, after my daughter watched a Food Network show featuring fish in foil packets. She decided that would be a good dish for us to make too! Here are our raw ingredients – sablefish filets, olive oil, lemon juice, S&P, carrot slices, green garlic and chopped red bell [...]
Cream-filled Chocolate SandwichesToday’s cookie is another from my new Martha Stewart’s Cookies book. The kids were excited, since the cookies look at little like Oreos in the picture, although now that they are done, I would suggest they are more like moon pies. The recipe makes about 2 dozen, which I did not think was [...]
With the new school year upon us, my daughter and I decided that each week we would bake a new cookie together. According to the papers I received from school yesterday, it is a great idea to cook with your kids, as it works on exciting math skills like fractions and measuring. Personally, I don’t [...]
Not sure if this is a tradition or not in your house, but each year our family looks forward to the annual bake-off contest at our local pool. The first year we participated, I went all out, creating a masterpiece from a Martha Stewart magazine, pulling out all the stops. This year was quite a [...]
