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Category Archives: Family
Apologies for not posting for a month – been a VERY busy time – Cooking with kids – Banana Cream Pie – SOOO easy!
I love bananas – we grow them on the Little farm – above is our farm manager with a large bunch just last week – and I love pie. This is the easiest dessert I have ever made. Enjoy! … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged banana cream pie, cooking with kids, desserts, family, grandma cooking, happiness, home, Jello, Kraft, Marie Callenders, Milk, pie crust, Vanilla wafers
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Uses for Coca Cola – other than drinking it – amazing!
I found this link to 15 uses of Coca Cola other than drinking it and it was truly mind blowing! Take a look at it – its actually difficult to imagine that this omnipotent liquid is something that we ingest … Continue reading
Parmesan Broiled Tilapia – from our own fish hatcheries at The Little Farm
Parmesan Broiled Tilapia – yes we do raise our own fish at our Little Farm – just for our own use. And it tastes amazing. Fish that is fresh – as you probably know – has NO fishy smell and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Fish, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad
Tagged cheese, cooking with kids, Fish, healthy eating, parmesan, recipes with family, Tilapia
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Broccoli Salad – divine! Easy to make with kids!
I love broccoli and so do my grandsons. This is a super recipe ( easy and fast) and can be made with lower fat Turkey bacon. The kids love to do this -especially breaking the broccoli and cauliflower florets off … Continue reading
Made a visit to the Nike Store and look what I got!
I made a visit to the Nike Store and went a little crazy – that happens when you have grandchildren and see really really cute things. Look at the adorable Noah (right) and Gabriel (left) in their new Nike Outfits … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family
Tagged grandchildren, Grandma, love of family, Nike, Nike Kids
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Just created a really simple lunch recipe which I wanted to share with you!
I love eggs – and lately books like GRAIN BRAIN have been lauding the benefit of eggs as great protein and NOT contributing to Cholesterol. Go figure – so many different points of view. So we feed our chickens flax … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Little farm products, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad, Vegetables
Tagged cooking with kids, eggs, family, Feta, lunch, salad
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Cooking with kids – what could be more fun! Some summer recipes for you and yours
Cooking with my grand kids is the best fun – and what I love to do most. The mess is truly irrelevant – teaching good healthy habits -like cleaning hands before cooking, wearing a clean apron, cleaning all utensils before … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blog, Cheese, Family, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged balsamic vinegar, cooking with kids, Feta, figs, lemon, mint, olive oil
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A most delicious salad with Roasted Home Grown Cherry Tomatoes – isn’t summer great?
We have an abundance of tomatoes – too much really. Take a look. The baby tomatoes were for the salad for which I have the recipe below – and the large ones were for the tomato soup ( also described … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Starters, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged Cherry Tomatoes, cooking with kids, Feta, garlic, grandma cooking, olive oil, onions, ricotta, roasted tomatoes, salad, shallots
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Another happy year has passed and a birthday comes and goes – never felt better!
I love birthdays. Lots of friends and cake and health and family. What could be better! And here is our immediate family celebrating with lots of hugs and singing! How blessed I am !
Summer Fruit and Forbes Magazine – what do they have in common?
Forbes on line columnist Gay Gaddis ( also my good friend and the Governing Board Chair of The Committee of 200 (C200) – I am vice chair of the Governing Board) wrote a recent article that compared low hanging fruit … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Women's Topics
Tagged Business, C200, family, Forbes Magazine, low hanging fruit
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Pears and Rose Apples – delicious exotic fruits from The Little Farm
Its Pear Season! And delightful treats from our farm. We also grow Rose Apples – they taste divine – smell and taste like roses. Making pear jam is easy. It just takes time. Pear Jam or Pear Compote Ingredients: 30 … Continue reading
Family togetherness – from all over the world
My son and his wife and children are spending time with my nephew and niece and their spouses and children and my sister and brother in law – a very special time. Here the grandchildren of our family from all over … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children
Tagged children, family, grandkids, Grandma
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Sir Nicholas Winton saved children during the Holocaust – this video moved me to tears
A friend facebooked this video and I had to share it. Especially as we celebrate the freedom of summer and family. Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakian … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family
Tagged Holocaust, Humanitarian, Jewish Children, Nazis, Save the Children, Sir Nicholas Winton, the miracle of kindness
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Holiday weekends in the summer – what could be better!
The Fourth of July Weekend was so much fun with lots of little ones running around, hot weather and huge thanks for the millions of men and women who have given their lives since the inception of the great country … Continue reading
More great things happening – life is so exciting! How blessed I am to be healthy and loved too – and able to spread the goodness around
My dear friend and social media guru Fay Feeney wrote a great article and gave me a platform to mention some governance views in it. Thank you Fay! Here it is – do pass it on if there are Board … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Women's Topics
Tagged berries, Board Governance, cooking with kids, Diversity, family, Mulberries, pie
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Lots of exciting events in the last month – a picture gallery of a few highlights
It has been a very busy and wonderful month – a visit to Israel leading the first delegation of the Committee of 200 Global Women’s CEO’s group who first visited Kuwait hosted by our member there Sara Akbar and then … Continue reading
Living in the moment
Last week we were driving very slowly through an intersection after the light turned green when a 19 year old kid in a brand new Mercedes ( which his dad bought for him, of course) went straight through the traffic … Continue reading
Hair loss is so aggravating – curing this would be a huge business opportunity
Losing one’s hair is a malady suffered by men and women alike. But bald men are sexy – bald women are not. Surely if we can keep humans in space we can solve this problem? It is not just cosmetic … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Women's Topics
Tagged Aging, female pattern baldness, Hair loss, Male pattern baldness
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A couple of great ideas – enjoy!
Like to bake muffins? So do I but I found an unusual use of muffin tins Above is a traditional use of muffin tins. But there are some unorthodox ways to use them too that are very useful. Here are … Continue reading
Belonging
This is the title of the novel that I wrote and was published by Penguin Books. It is a story about two courageous women, one a child of poverty and the other a child of plenty who are born on … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Philanthropy, Raising Children
Tagged Belonging, family, Larraine Segil, Novel, Philanthropy, special needs adults, Special needs children
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