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Author Archives: Grandma
A recent board retreat at our Little Farm – of course all board members left with goody bags!
Recently we held a board retreat at our Little Farm for a board on which I serve. It was productive and fun too! I made sure that all board members left with goody bags filled with cheese, jams, papaya and … Continue reading
Papaya from The Little Farm – as delicious as it looks!
Papaya grows like crazy at our Little Farm -and it tastes wonderful with warm salted ricotta as well as blended into a drink or accompanying curried chicken salad – truly versatile and wonderful. Papaya Drink: Blend a peeled and seeded … Continue reading
Slow Cooker Chicken – easy when cooking with kids!
Slow Cooker Chicken – sooooo easy! The children can help you make this – let them mix all the ingredients as instructed – and there is nothing for them to burn themselves on – as the slow cooker will heat … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Salad, Slow Cooker
Tagged cooking with kids, cracked pepper, easy dinners, lemon, olive oil, seasoned salt, slow cooker
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Making fun with food! Individual pies for kids – cooking with kids
Individual Berry Pies You can make the filling ahead and refrigerate it for up to five days; bring it to room temperature before using. Serves 12 (serving size: 1 pie) Ingredients: 2 tablespoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon grated orange rind 1 … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged blueberries, cooking with kids, fun food, individual berry pies, pies, rasberries
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Slow cooker heaven – have you made desserts in one? YUMMY!
Here is a summer slow cooker recipe. For dessert. Its so delicious – enjoy! Slow Cooker Caramel pie INGREDIENTS 2(14 ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk 1graham cracker crust (9 inch) 1(8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed 1(1 1/2 ounce) English toffee-flavored … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Slow Cooker
Tagged caramel, cooking with kids, crockpot, desserts, Grandma, slow cooker
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And a couple more tips from ALLRECIPES.COM – enjoy!
Here are the rest of the tips from ALLRECIPES.COM – (my last post had the first one about fresh baking powder etc) and I especially like the last one! ENJOY! Below is the reason why I bake – two little … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Tips
Tagged Allrecipes, baking, Baking tips, cooking with kids, family, Grandma
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Baking better cakes! Try these tests – easy and quick!
Here are my twin grandsons helping me bake last weekend. I love to bake. But my baking experiments are not always successful. I came across these hints in ALLRECIPES.COM and wanted to share them with you! 1. Make sure that … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Tips
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A lemon guava tree – the perfect gift for the Urban farmer – from his kids and grandkids!
Our children and grandchildren gave us the perfect fathers day gift – a Lemon Guava tree to add to the Little Farm! We had a planting ceremony – so adorable! And a lovely weekend together. So much fun!
Posted in Family, Little farm products
Tagged family, Fathers Day, fruit, grandchildren, grandparents, healthy, lemon guava tree, Little farm, outdoors, planting, urban farming
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Sleepover and Cupcakes – great combination for grandkids!
The first time all four boys slept over – in the same room! So much fun! Of course baking is always part of the fun – and tasting the cupcake mixture too! Jumping into our bed in the morning (early……) … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged baking, cooking with kids, cupcakes, family, Fathers Day, grandkids, Grandma, Sleepover, summer
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Family time – what could be better! Our annual family week – most of the family were there!
Once a year we go away as a family ( anything between 25-45 of us) and have 7 glorious days together. The kids ADORE it as do the parents. Here are some of the activities we do. We have Grandma’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family
Tagged cooking with kids, cupcakes, family time, family week, fun, grandkids, Grandma, grandpa, holidays, love, summertime, swimming, togetherness
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Some adorable pet pictures – makes me happy! And you?
Here are some adorable pet pictures which made me happy. Hope they cheer up your day?
Posted in Art, Blog
Tagged adorable, animals, family, happiness, love, love of pets, pet pictures
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Leftovers – some creative ideas with Basmati Rice
When we first got married 46 years ago, and especially living on frugal means in Canada for a year and then during our first years in the USA, we made do with lots of leftovers – and some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Leftovers, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged basmati rice, chicken, children, Fish, leftovers, meat, olive oil, Poultry, Protein, turkey
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Fava Beans – have you ever tried them? Very high in protein and delicious
Fava beans ( also known as Broad Bean) are a pain to prepare since they have TWO skins – the green one that grows on the outside and then the skin that surrounds the actual bean. They are a species … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Gluten Free, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged Broad Beans, broil, cooking with kids, edamame, Fava Beans, healthy food, high protein vegetables, kosher salt, Mediterranean Diet, North African Diet, olive oil, Protein
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Babysitting is the best fun when you are a grandparent!
Here are the four grandsons in the bathtub – only little ones can have so much fun with water! A fair amount arrived on the floor but there was a mass mopping up after the bath – so all was … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children
Tagged babysitting, Bath time, bed time, cleanliness, family, grandchildren, grandparents, happiness, having fun, Raising kids
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Good friends – no substitute!
Recently my husband and I welcomed two friends and their wives. One is a maxillofacial surgeon from Perth Australia and the other an ENT Surgeon from Cleveland Ohio ( formerly the Cleveland Clinic). Both went to kindergarten with my husband … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family
Tagged family, Friends, friendship, fun, happiness, health, laughter, school friends, togetherness
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Reading to grandkids – what could be more wonderful!
We were blessed to baby sit our four grandsons last night. What a joy! Here I am reading to the twins – such fun.
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children, Reading with children
Tagged babysitting, family, grandchildren, love, reading to kids, reading with grandchildren, togetherness, twins
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Nectarines and Peaches from the Little Farm – the taste cannot be compared to those from the market
If you have ever tasted fruit from the tree – you know the difference in taste from the pasty, cardboard, hard and tasteless fruit that is offered to us for purchase in supermarkets. Even organically grown fruit is put into … Continue reading
Our Little Farm Produce – Cherries of the Rio Grande – yum! Also Surinam Cherries!
We grow multiple exotic fruits – one is this amazing cherry – Cherry of the Rio Grande – isn’t it beautiful? Tastes amazing too! And here are Surinam cherries – an entirely different taste but also delicious!
Our newest workers at The Little Farm – four little boys! Don’t they look adorable?
I buy my Little Farm shirts and clothes for all our staff at the farm from Lands End – with logos and all. So our newest workers of course must have shirts as they get bigger! Here the four newest … Continue reading
A great picture by photographer Ken Jacques – from the Los Angeles Business Journal Event – thanks Ken!
Ken took photographs at the event – and did such a great job! Here it is! Thanks Ken!
Posted in Art, Blog
Tagged Ken Jacques, Larraine Segil, Los Angeles Business Journal, photography, Women making a difference
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