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Author Archives: Grandma
Chicken Thighs with a lovely lemony garlic sauce – great for cooking with kids!
Chicken Thighs with a Lovely Lemony Garlic Sauce – easy for Cooking with Kids – fairly low in calories and quick and easy. Chicken thighs are becoming more popular – before most folks went for the breasts – supposedly lower … Continue reading
Tasty Thursdays – A Mexican Crumb Coffee Cake – Yum!
A Mexican crumb cake or coffeecake is swirled with cinnamon and chocolate. With the right cinnamon and chocolate combination and a good, fairly dense cake, it can be luscious. Remember to put on your favorite music when you bake – … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Snacks
Tagged Bavarian Cream, cake, caramel, chocolate, cinnamon, cooking with kids, cream, Mexican Crumb cake, pie, syrup
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An amazing way to use Lemons – also a recipe for Lemon Marmalade
I have found an amazing way to use lemons. We have such an abundance of them – literally trees that are breaking from the weight of their lemons – all kinds including Meyer lemons which I think are the best. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Fruit, Gluten Free, Jams, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Tips
Tagged cooking with kids, freezers, jams, jars, lemons, marmalade, meyer lemons, oranges, recipes, tips
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Useful tips for home and family – last group of really good tips…
And the last of the tips postings…. Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks. ============ ========= ========= ===== When boiling corn on the cob, add a pinch of sugar to help … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children, Tips
Tagged air freshener, alka seltzer, Ants, celery, cleaning, family, headaches, home, household, mosquito bites, tips, wine
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Our Philanthropy Friday today celebrates the life of my dear friend who passed last week, Carol Abrams – one of a kind – she will be in my heart forever
In the picture above, my dear friend Carol Abrams, is second from the right dressed in black, with her husband Gerry, and I am next to her in red, with my husband Clive with me, and next to him our other … Continue reading
More useful tips for home and family….
Some of these tips are so obvious it makes you wonder why you didnt think of that? They work too! Of course I strongly suggest putting on Grandma Music if you are doing the boring work of cleaning – music … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children, Tips
Tagged cleaning, flowers, freshener, perfume, stains, tips, washing windows
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Useful tips for the home and family
I received these tips anonymously on the internet and love them! Thank you to whomever created them! For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: Get warm water and put Dawn dish washing liquid in it. Pour it all over the … Continue reading
The Differences Between Cows Milk and Goats Milk – Great for those who are lactose intolerant!
This article is Reproduced from United Caprine News (US) March 1989. The reason I am publishing it here is that it is one of the best descriptions I have found for the topic – and because we use a … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children, Tips
Tagged cheese, cooking with kids, cows milk, family, farm, farming, goats milk, organic farming, pasteurized milk, urban farming
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What is better than a swing on a day at the beach! Sundays are SUCH fun! Kid Stories, family togetherness – the best!
The day was perfect and the swings swung high – here is our middle grandson Jonah having the best time at the beach today. And our oldest grandson Jack listening to jazz at the beach – he is in heaven … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children
Tagged beach, cheeseburger, family, fun, summer, swiings, together
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Banana Caramel Muffins for Cooking with Kids
We like a lot of banana flavor in our muffins. That took two things: really ripe bananas and added banana flavor. This is a wonderful treat for cooking with kids. Of course they will sample a LOT. This recipe transforms banana … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Other wonderful treats, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged banana, brunch, calories, caramel, cooking with kids, dessert, fun, grandma food, muffins, snacks
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Veal and Tomatoes in the Crockpot! Cooking with kids – an easy dinner dish! Healthy too….
Did I tell you how much I love my crockpot? I really do – it’s sooo easy to use. So today I made Veal Tomato Stew -easy, healthy, and fast! We put on some upbeat weird music for this one … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Meat, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Vegetables
Tagged carrots, cooking with kids, crockpot, low fat food, potatoes, rice, slow cooker, sweet potatoes, tomato puree, tomato sauce, tomatoes, veal, veal stew, yams
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Sam the broken robot made his debut at the ZIMMER childrens museum – see his video !
Sam was so nervous. Truly. But then he met all the great kids who were visiting and playing at the Zimmer Museum and he got dressed in front of them so that they were not scared of him – and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Live Events, Raising Children, Social media, Uncategorized
Tagged childrens museum, family fun, grandma music, kid songs, kid stories, Robot, stories for families
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Cooking with kids – Stuffed French Toast – YUM!
How to Make Stuffed and Crusted French Toast If you can make a sandwich, you can make stuffed and crusted French toast. In fact, a peanut butter and jam sandwich made into French toast is quite good. And for my … Continue reading
Pigs in a Blanket – Did your Mom make this when cooking with kids? I love them – not so healthy but yummy
Many folks in our home town used sausages with pastry when cooking with kids. Only when I traveled to the UK did I hear the term “Pigs in a blanket”. It was used even more often when I came to the USA. So … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Meat, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cooking with kids, family style, grandma music, kid stories, pigs in blanket, pizza dough, recipes
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Cooking with kids to make Chicken Fingers – Healthy and pretty much fat free!
Our grandkids love chicken nuggets but most of those we find in restaurants are in batter and full of fat and carbohydrates that provide empty and unnecessary calories. This recipe is truly easy and lower in fat -using Panko breadcrumbs … Continue reading
A very typical scene in Africa – it makes sense in a funny sort of way – for your daily giggle!
This is one way to transport wheelbarrows when you have a two seater car.
Cake making – Streusel Cake with Fruit Filling – Cooking with Kids
Pennsylvania Dutch Streusel Cake with a Fruit Filling Have you ever made streusel cake or streuselkuchen? This is one of the best. Like most, this one has a layer of fruit filling tucked under the streusel top. Serve it as a dessert … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Other wonderful treats, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cake, cooking with kids, desserts, family, fillings, fruit, Grandma, meals, pastry, recipes, snacks, Streusel
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Quiche – Cooking with Kids – the Shortcut Way!
Quiches are a food that our grandchildren love. The french name for this delightfully flexible ‘pie’ makes a fancy dish from simple cooking. Easy to make and serve – and always thrilling to eat – change the ingredients to meet … Continue reading
A vegetable kids will love – Green Peas with butter and mint – cooking with kids made easy – while playing Grandma Music!
I love fresh peas. We used to grow them in South Africa and as a child I would go to the vegetable patch and stand and eat the sweet delicacies right out of the pod. In this recipe you will … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged cooking with kids, food, grandma recipes, healthy, moms, organic, peas, snacks, vegetable, vegetarian
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Cooking with kids – making Cream Puffs! Tip = this is the EASIEST pastry that Children can make!
A Very Simple Way to Make Very Good Cream Puffs (Includes raspberry, cherry, and lemon variations) If you can make cupcakes, you can make cream puffs. They’re that simple. I don’t mean fancy, decorator cupcakes; I mean bake-them-from-a-mix-and spread-frosting-on-them cupcakes. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cake, cooking, cooking with kids, dessert, grandma food, grandma fun, grandma recipes, happiness, pastry, sweets
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