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Category Archives: Recipes
Tuesday Tips – Making Blintzes! Cooking with Kids – who doesn’t love kids and blintzes?
The Easy Way to Make Strawberry, Cherry, and Other Blintzes I love blintzes—always have. I don’t know anyone who does not love blintzes. So how come we don’t make them more often? Blintzes aren’t hard but if you are making … Continue reading
Tasty Thursdays – Aebleskiver – a Dutch Dessert that makes Cooking with Kids so much fun!
How to Delight Your Family! Make aebleskiver! I guarantee your family will love aebleskiver—Danish puffed pastries. Aebleskiver are extra special but easy enough that you can make them often. Make them from scratch or make them from a mix. Since … Continue reading
Tuesday Tips – Cooking with kids – French Toast – the USA Way!
Cinnamon Vanilla Sugar Overnight Baked French Toast Cinammon Sugar is one of those delicious combinations that we used as kids on toast and butter -under the grill and yummy! A great ( if not very healthy) snack! My grandchildren love it too … Continue reading
Tuesday Tips along with Pretty Easy Pies – Cooking with Kids made Easy too!
How to Make a Pie as Easy as a Peanut Butter Sandwich (Okay, maybe not quite that easy but pretty darned easy) People are intimidated by pies. They shouldn’t be. You can make pies as good as the bake … Continue reading
Tasty Thursdays – Cooking with Kids – EASY Banana pie!
How to Make the World’s Easiest Banana Pie (and other) Desserts Make Banana, Strawberry, and Cherry Individual Desserts in Minutes On a busy afternoon, the kids bring their friends by and want desserts. What can you give them that’s quick … Continue reading
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Tasty Thursdays – An Easy Curry Soup with Squash – Cooking with Kids!
Curried Butternut Squash Soup Ingredients 1 butternut squash – large 1 white onion – chopped 1 tomato chopped 1 minced clove of garlic 2 cups vegetable stock ( I use Better than Bouillon and make up the concentrate with water) … Continue reading
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Tasty Thursdays – Gluten Free Magnificent Chicken in a Bowl- A One Dish Meal!
Background: One of the winners of a special offer that we did, asked me if I could do some gluten free recipes. And here is one that is really very good, easy and a one dish meal. It also happens … Continue reading
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Tagged chicken, childrens recipes, cooking with kids, easy, gluten free, Grandma, inexpensive, low calorie, one dish meals, poutlry
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Tasty Thursdays – Chicken and Cooking with Kids!
Background: We eat a lot of chicken – and frankly I just don’t enjoy chicken breasts as much as thighs. However my family ( kids mainly) love breast meat – so I always mix the light and dark meat up. This is an easy … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking with kids, garlic, honey, low calorie, marinade, mustard chicken, olive oil, Worcerstershire sauce
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Tasty Thursdays – Slow Cooker for Chicken – Cooking with Kids! SO easy!
Slow Cooker for Chicken Cooking with Kids – SO easy! Background: I love love love my slow cooker. There are so many benefits to using one – first, the house smells amazing all day while it is cooking; second – … Continue reading
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Tuesday Tips – Amazing ideas sent to me anonymously – but OH SO HELPFUL when Cooking with Kids and More! YOU will say “Why didn’t I think of that?”
WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT??? I am not the most craft oriented person – in fact, I used to dread arts and crafts days at school and am not the grandma who has a multiple of crafts around for … Continue reading
Tasty Thursdays – Curried Chicken with Sweet Potatoes or Yams – Great for Cooking with Kids while listening to Grandma Music!
Growing up in South Africa meant that we had many curry dishes – there is a large Indian population in South Africa, many in Durban but quite a few in Johannesburg too. We spent every July in Durban since for … Continue reading
Cooking with Kids – Winter Vegetables – Potato Medley with Rosemary and Olive Oil – Good all year around!
Background: There are so many wonderful potatoes around now – that making a winter medley with children is so much fun. My grandsons love to help! And this is a really easy delicious recipe. Ingredients: Assorted potatoes in season – … Continue reading
Thursday Treats – along with Stories – Free Children Stories and Rockin Grandma Music!
What a week of eating it has been! Trying to keep the waistline in check while allowing moderate indulgences is a common challenge in the holiday seasons! And exercising every day helps but certainly can’t catch up with the overage … Continue reading
Tasty Thursdays are here again! Feta Cheese Salad
Background We eat salads all year. As children need to eat their veggies, making a salad with your kids is good way to encourage them to eat greens. This recipe serves 4-6. My grandsons decided to have a snack while … Continue reading
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Toffee Sugar Cookies
Background: The big challenge here will be to prevent yourself from eating all of these before your company arrives! They are that good.
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Garlic Bread
Background: Bread is the staff of life and garlic is its crowning glory. Adding garlic to bread and butter and heating it makes an aroma that can make one swoon. And tastes good too!
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A Most Unusual Onion and Tomato Salad
Background: Most salads are either raw or cooked. This one is a bit of each. I love onions especially when they are cooked and caramelized. And fresh summer heirloom tomatoes are so sweet that they have their own natural sugary taste. … Continue reading
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Coleslaw with a Crunch
Background: Making Coleslaw is a snap nowadays with shredded multicolored cabbage available in the markets all ready for you to add fixin’s and dressing. This is so delicious – it could be eaten on its own as a main course … Continue reading
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Fresh Herb Dip
Background: This is absolutely delicious with fresh cilantro, garlic, peppers, onions, limes and parsley from our Little Farm ( or from your local Farmer’s Market). And this is where you can use non fat sour cream without a huge change … Continue reading
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Bean and Garlic Dip
Background: This is for a gathering of close friends – beans and garlic can be a pretty powerful combination! The dip isn’t terribly unhealthy – that is if you use low calorie mayonnaise – but it does change the taste … Continue reading
