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Category Archives: Blog
How to Dress …….a CAKE!! Cooking with kids is SUCH fun.
How to Dress a Cake that’s Easier and Quicker than Frosting – and put on some music to entertain yourself when cooking with kids or grandkids. Try Silly Kwela! It’s not necessary to frost a cake. It’s quicker and easier to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cake, cherries, chocolate, cooking with kids, cream, flourless chocolate cake, Music for kids, strawberries
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Cherry Pie – the short cut way when cooking with kids
I love to use store bought pie crust or frozen pie dough – its easy and tastes good. This pie becomes sooooo easy when you do it this way.. and those amazing Rainer ( the yellow ones) cherries are abundant … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cherry pie, cooking with kids, dessert, family, food, fun, kid stories, pie, Rainer Cherries
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Blackberry Pie – heaven! A great summer dish for cooking with kids
I like using store ready pie crusts – both for the top and bottom. Cooking with kids when using store bought materials is a good idea since they can learn that there are good things that can be bought – … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged blackberries, Blackberry, blackberry pie, cooking with kids, desserts, family, Fourth of July, grandma music, kid stories, party
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We LOVE Corn – do you? How about cooking with kids to make Corn Cake and fruit? YUM!
Cooking with kids using fresh ingredients is the best. We love corn and grow our own – so summer fun includes not only throwing corn into boiling water for just a few minutes after picking – or finishing corn on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Fruit, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged Cooking Light, cooking with kids, Corn, Corn and Fruit, Corn Cake, dessert, family, grandma music, music, strawberries
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Yogurt – so many ways to use this healthy dish – cooking with kids especially!
We make our own yogurt from our goats milk and use it in many dishes when cooking with kids. It is creamy and delicious. I also enjoy FAGE non fat yogurt when I am looking for a lower calorie dish. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Fish, Gluten Free, Other wonderful treats, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Tips
Tagged beef, berries, blackberries, blueberries, chicken, cilantro, FAGE yogurt, Fish, Greek Yogurt, honey, mint, stews, strawberries, sugar, yogurt
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Strawberry Cheesecake IceCream Recipe – Truly Delicious! Make it Cooking with Kids – with LOTS of tasting!
This is a most delicious ( sadly not low cal) recipe. My grandkids loved making it with me. There was lots of snacking on healthy strawberries while we whisked and stirred together. Alas the end product has a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cream, fruit, Icecream, Kraft Foods, lemons, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, strawberries, Whipping Cream
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Fennel – an amazing herb – cooking with kids and teaching them the value of herbs in adding flavor (instead of salt) – also a Sugar Cookie Recipe
Fennel is a wonderful herb that grows wild in California. If you ride horses, during the spring time in California, there is an abundance of wild mustard and fennel that grows along with sage and your steed will love to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Snacks, Tips
Tagged cooking with kids, desserts, family, farming, Fennel, fennel pollen, meals, pollen, recipes, sugar cookies, tips, treats, urban farming
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A tip worth remembering – removing Red Wine from fabric
Red wine spills are the worst kind to remove. I came across this tip but have not trie dit. I must admit to leaving stains and sending them to our cleaners who tend to work miracles. They are L&S cleaners … Continue reading
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Tagged Dry Cleaning, family, grapes, household, stain removal, tips, Wine removal
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Burning Calories – for computer users and golfers….
Walking the golf course for 18 holes while carrying your golf clubs burns 1442 calories on average. This compares to 517 calories sitting at your computer for four hours, according to a study by Neil Wolkodoff director of the Rose … Continue reading
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Tagged burning calories, carrying clubs, golf, healthy, kids, sport
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Chicken Tortilla Soup Short cut style – with Vegetables – Cooking with Kids and family meals make me so happy – how about you?
Chicken Tortilla Soup Little Farm Style ( short cut) – and do be sure to put on music – try the Tickle Me song this time! Ingredients ( this will serve 4-6) 1 tablespoon butter ( it does make a … Continue reading
Chicken and Almonds – yum! Cooking with kids to make this easy low cal dish with Butternut Squash Mash and Oven Fries
I love nuts and chicken together – especially when cooking with kids – along with my favorite Panko breadcrumbs this makes for a low cal quick weektime dish – which is no fuss so you could easily do this on … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Poultry, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Tips, Vegetables
Tagged almonds, chicken, cooking with kids, easy, grandma music, low calorie, nuts, panko breadcrumbs, rosemary, tips
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Making Ice Cream Sandwiches – at home! Cooking with Kids on the day AFTER The Fourth!
How to Make Ice Cream Sandwiches Three Ways You can make ice cream sandwiches three ways. Any way you choose, you can make far better ice cream sandwiches than you can get at the store down the street. And you … Continue reading
July Fourth! Cooking with kids – cooking for family! An EASY FAST ONE!
We have family members who eat fish – not chicken or meat. So for the Fourth we always have a delicious grilled salmon dish for them. The one below is easily assembled, unusual in flavor and can be bbq’d along … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Fish, Gluten Free, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged BBQ, cooking with kids, Fish, Fourth of July, gluten free, grandma meals, healthy eating, salmon
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Brownies GALORE! Great for cooking with kids – they can join YOU in licking the bowls! Great for the FOURTH OF JULY!
Ten Ways to Fancy Up Your Brownies (or Other Desserts) Remember to put on MUSIC to make it fun! Try The Happy Song! Here are ten great ideas to transform your brownies into fancy desserts that will impress your friends … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged bananas, brownies, cakes, cooking, cooking with kids, desserts, food, kid stories, lemons, recipes, snacks, strawberries, sundaes, toppings
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Make a Banana Cream Pie in 20 minutes! Great for cooking with kids! On Tasty Thursdays
How to Make a Banana Cream Pie—in as Little as 20 Minutes We nearly always have bananas around our house. We actually grow our own so in the season we have more than we can eat. Most of the time, they get … 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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