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Turning parking lots into urban farms – reverse tithing -90% of produce donated to the community, and only 10% kept for supporting the cause – VOTE TODAY!
This is such a good cause – please cast your vote for it – it is an interfaith activity that churches and synagogues participate in, where they take underutilized parking lots, and turn them into farms, then they reverse tithe … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family
Tagged doing good, donate, family, farming, Philanthropy, tithe, urban farm
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Making Brownies like a Bakery does! When cooking with kids – easy and fun!
How to Make Your Brownies Look Like They Came from a Bakery STEP 1:Line your pan with parchment paper. Spread shortening in the pan to hold the paper in place. Don’t worry; the fat will be outside the paper, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged brownies, cake, cake pan, cooking tips, cooking with kids, dessert, favorites, Grandma, parchment paper
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Making a really good ( and easy Graham Cracker Crust) – and Chocolate Ribbon Cheesecake – scrumptious!
Making a really good ( and easy Graham Cracker Crust) There are recipe authors that advocate baking the crust before you fill it. It doesn’t need to be if you are making a dessert, such as a cheesecake, that is … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Tips
Tagged cake baking, cakes, cooking with kids, dessert, Graham cracker crumb crust, tips
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Cake desserts with Fruit and Sauces – yummy when Cooking with Kids!
How to Make Luscious Cake Desserts with Fruit and Sauces I get a lot of my cake and bread mixes from The Prepared Pantry – it requires some thought and ordering in advance but they keep for months, and you … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts
Tagged blueberries, cake, cake mixes, caramel sauce, cooking with kids, desserts, lemon sauce, strawberries, whipped cream
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Marvelous Muffins! Great when cooking with kids – you can even use muffin mix and add zing to them
Beyond the Basics: Adding Goodies to Your Muffins Includes: “How to Get Your Muffins Out of the Pan without Breaking” What’s not to like about a warm honey bran muffin with great jam? Cinnamon Chip Bran Muffins. To a mix … Continue reading
Mentoring MBA Candidates – one of my passion’s is paying it forward to young women and men encouraging them that a business career is GOOD!
For the past 21 years I have mentored young women and men at UCLA Anderson School of Management. It is a continuing pleasure and honor to meet these amazing young people who come from all over the world to participate … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Live Events
Tagged Foreign Students, MBA, mentoring, UCLA, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Here is the ultimate strawberry chocolate cake – just like the last two blogs but with chunks of fruit – great when cooking with kids
Strawberry White Chocolate Lava Cake with Strawberry Sauce Anyone who likes strawberry shortcake is going to love this. The chunks of fruit in the filling reduce the ooze but this so good, it’s hard to pass up. Ingredients 1/2 … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cooking with kids, desserts, strawberry, white chocolate
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If you got the hang of Chocolate Lava Cakes, try this one – white chocolate orange lava cakes – when cooking with kids
Chocoholics beware! This cake could be in your future! Orange White Chocolate Lava Cake Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 6 large eggs 2 teaspoons orange flavor 1 tablespoon orange zest 2/3 cup all-purpose flour … Continue reading
Making yummy molten chocolate lava cakes – cooking with kids
If you are a chocoholic you will LOVE these cakes. Their name says it all – Molten Chocolate Lava Cake Ingredients 1 cup butter 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 6 large eggs 2/3 cup all-purpose flour 3/4 … Continue reading
Making Pannekoeken ( Dutch Baby Cups) from prepared mix and filling them with yummy stuff – great for cooking with kids
Coming from South Africa, there is a significant amount of Dutch heritage in the background of those who live there and so I remember growing up with many recipes that heralded from Holland. One of those memories is all about … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cooking with kids, dessert, Pannekoeken
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What are the easiest ways to make a meal? Especially when cooking with kids? 5 TIPS for you
You come home from work, the kids are hungry, the dog wants to be fed, you are so tired all you want to do is collapse into a chair – but dinner needs to be made, homework done and everyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Fruit, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Tips
Tagged cooking with kids, easy meals, essentials for the kitchen, tips
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Sugar Cookies – always good when cooking with kids! And a Spiderman Birthday Cake!
Sugar cookies are fast and easy. However below are some ways to dress them up. My grandson Jonah just loves to bake cookies of any kind with me! Below is the SPIDERMAN cake that I made for his fourth birthday … Continue reading
Banana Nut Cupcakes with yummy caramel frosting – Cooking with kids – and make Banana Nut Bread too!
The Prepared Pantry Vanilla Bean Baby Cakes Mix makes great banana bread. It’s baked at a lower temperature and in a loaf pan with mashed bananas and comes out denser and moister than a cake—just like a quick bread. (See the … Continue reading
Creme Brulee – not just for fancy chefs – you can do it too – and while cooking with kids!
Creme Brulee is a delicious dessert – and not that hard to make. Here are a couple of variations and all of them are good for cooking with kids too! General Tips on Custard Making ( Creme Brulee is basically custard!) … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cooking wtih kids, Creme Brulee, Custards
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Cooking with kids again – this time chocolate coconut baby cupcakes – yum!
Chocolate Coconut Baby Cakes Baby Cakes are cupcakes designed for dessert. Emphasis is on taste, not design and fancy decorations are not necessary though they should be attractive enough to serve at a dinner party. We first made these from … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged baking, chocolate, coconut, cooking with kids, cupcakes, dessert
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Spudnuts – ridiculously divine – certainly not low cal – but a treat for once in a long while…
Spudnuts always seem a little indulgent but they sure are good—much better than donuts. We used a Spudnut mix which we bought from Prepared Pantry, and cooked both the donuts and the donut holes—with extra donut holes for our sundaes. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Other wonderful treats
Tagged dessert, Doughnuts Spudnuts, sugar
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Why not have eggnog at other times of year? Its so delicious – try eggnog cupcakes!
To Make the Eggnog Cupcakes: From our affiliate partner THE PREPARED PANTRY from whom I buy all my bread mixes and some of these specialty ones too! Try them – they are amazing! By clicking on any of the links … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged chocolate, cooking with kids, cupcakes, dessert, eggnog
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Quick Weekday Salmon – easy to cook with kids
Salmon is nutritious on many levels – that wonderful omega fish oil, low in calories and tasty too! Wild salmon is best, but farmed salmon is still more nutritious than eating fast food or deep fried options. This recipe is so … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Fish, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Salad
Tagged broiling, cooking with kids, fish in the oven, nutritious, omega oils, salmon
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Cooking with kids – CATHEAD BISCUITS! A recipe from the old south but quick and easy!
Cathead Biscuits: Easy Biscuits in the Oven or on the Stovetop Because you don’t have to roll the dough and cut the biscuits, drop biscuits are faster than cut biscuits. This recipe filled an 11-inch skillet perfectly and made nine … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Jams, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Snacks
Tagged biscuits, biscuits and jam, butter, Cathead biscuits, cooking with kids, old south, skillet, southern cooking
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Pocket Sandwiches – cooking with kids – easy for them or you to make for lunches!
Call them hot pocket sandwiches, pastries, piroshki, or calzones (though calzones are pizzas in a pocket, made with Italian spices and red sauce). They are very good and easier than you may think. There are three ways to make hot … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Meat, Poultry, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged calzones, cheese, cooking with kids, meat, pies, pita, Pocket sandwiches, sandwiches, turkey
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