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Tag Archives: cooking with kids
Problems with Hostgator and WordPress and Website – GRRRRR – and a low calorie dinner
Hope none of you are using Hostgator to host and manage your websites? I spent over 6 hours trying to fix a problem on this site yesterday with techs who could not put a sentence in English together and kept … Continue reading
A Cream Cheese Cake from Poland – divine!
I tried this recipe from ALL RECIPES and loved it! The family loved it too! I know you will as well. The crumbly brown sugar topping just makes it amazing. Enjoy! Polish Cream Cheese Coffee Cake Ingredients · 1 cup … Continue reading
Roasted Cauliflower Soup – so delicious and low cal too!
We eat a lot of cauliflower and carrots and this is a novel way to cook them together that is truly divine and low calorie too. Enjoy! Roasted Cauliflower Soup Ingredients: 1 head of cauliflower 2 cups of baby carrots … Continue reading
Ants and Cinnamon – did you know? And Easy Apricot Chicken
Ants have been eating our doggie’s food from his dish – and crawling all over it the moment we put it down. We tried this home remedy and it worked! We sprinkled cinnamon all over the ground under the dish … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Poultry, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice
Tagged almonds, Apricot chicken, Apricot jam, chicken, cilantro, cooking with kids, quick and easy meals
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Bread and Butter Pudding – good old favorite – so delicious when made with Croissants!
This is a dish that I always make in winter but I had about 6 croissants left over from a lunch party and so I decided to use them to make this standard English dessert much richer and more delicious! … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Leftovers, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged baking, butter, comfort food, cooking with kids, Croissants, desserts, entertaining at home, grandma desserts, home cooking, leftovers, Milk, sugar, vanilla
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Amazing crop of tomatoes this year – pears too -some of our animals passed while a new animal joins the family – sweet rescue
After our beloved Central Asian Shepherd puppy of 1.5 years Smokey, died suddenly in her sleep a month ago we have been searching through rescue places for another rescue who could get along with our three cats. We found one … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Dogs, Family, Fruit, Gluten Free, Jams, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cooking with kids, crops, dogs, farming, fruit, goats, jams, pear butter, pears, rescues, tomatoes, urban farming
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I love to eat Blondie’s – do you?
I don’t eat chocolate so Brownies are not an option for me. But BLONDIE’S are ! And here is a terrific recipe – the problem is that I love these too much. The recipe makes 9 and I cut them … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged Blondies, cake, chocolate, cookies, cooking with kids, dessert, foodies, Grandma
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Welcoming family from Basel Switzerland this week – such excitement!
We have been planning for months for the visit of my niece and her husband and children and this is the week! We have a family get together on Saturday and lots of fun planned for the days before. I … Continue reading
Carrot Salad and Cucumber soup – both are easy and low calorie
Post holiday weekend – and all that sugar fat and yummy stuff — sigh – today is back to watching what I put in my mouth day – and here is a truly fabulous low calorie carrot salad. One of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad, Tips, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged carrot salad, cold soup, cooking with kids, cucumber soup, FAGE yogurt, grandma cooking, Low calorie salads, non fat sour cream, raisins, recipes, Recipes to make with children, yogurt
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Failed Cobb Salad Pizza recipe from Cooking Light – looks good but tasted bad! Plus adorable pics of our twins!
I tried a really fun looking recipe from Cooking Light and it was a disaster. So I am sharing it with you. The good news was that same weekend our grandson twins had a hip hop concert – so adorable … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Poultry, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad
Tagged cobb salad, Cooking Light, cooking with kids, failed recipes, family, grandkids, grandma cooking, hip hop shows, Pizza, twins
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Little Farm Crops of fruit and vegetables this year – spectacular because of all the rain! YAY~
We have an abundance of wonderful fruit this year. And are making jams, relishes and compote like crazy! The family are happy as are friends as we are bearing giffs whenever we meet! Here are just a few of our … Continue reading
Our eldest grandson Jack turned 10 ! He wanted me to make a Jack in the Beanstalk Cake – so I did! And he was accepted into Junior Lifeguards for the summer!
It is always my pleasure to make cakes for my grandsons – and our eldest grandson Jack who turned ten – asked for a special one. This was a really tough week with the loss of my dear friend and … Continue reading
Passover – an important holiday with family and friends – how blessed we are!
We were blessed this year to have a full house – family mainly with a few dear friends. I took special care with the table – since our children may well take on the seder responsibilities in years to come … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Fish, Fruit, Live Events, Prayers and Religion, Raising Children
Tagged Cooking for family, cooking with kids, family, Grandma, Passover, Pesach, praying, Reading, religion, Sharing with children, stories
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Such fun with our goat babies this year!
We have been bottle feeding three goat kids this year – and they are now so tame that they follow us around like puppies! Such fun for the grandkids! And us too! Also three new baby kittens – no more … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Dogs, Family, Goats, Raising Children
Tagged Cooking with Grandma, cooking with kids, family, Goat kids, having fun at home, raising children, raising goats, urban farming
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Rhubarb Strawberry Cake with Vanilla Ice cream!
All throughout making this I kept thinking this is NOT going to work out – and then amazingly – it was perfect! So dont be put off by the stickiness and globby nature of the batter – it doesnt spread … Continue reading
Another recipe from Kraft Food and Family Magazine – using Kraft products – yummy!
I love this shortcut strata using lots of good stuff – kale, chicken sausage ( they use turkey sausage – we prefer chicken) and more. I found it in the Kraft Food and Family Magazine. Kale and Turkey Sausage Egg bake … Continue reading
Using Kraft Food Products from their Magazine – love their ideas – and their CEO Denise Morrison – a role model for all women executives!
I get the monthly Kraft Food and Family magazine – and love it. There are tons of short cuts and great recipes. I made two of them just this week – my family was HAPPY! I modified this one to … Continue reading
Chicken Herbs Capers and Blood Oranges – from Bryna!
A young friend of ours was visiting the LIttle Farm and took home a bunch of blood oranges – she sent me this recipe, I tried it and it is terrific! Thank you Bryna! Chicken with herbs, Blood Orange and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Poultry, Uncategorized
Tagged blood oranges, capers, chicken, Cooking with Grandma, cooking with kids, herbs
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Max Arteaga Blue Cheese Pineapple Sauce -truly – its amazing!
Max Arteaga Blue Cheese Pineapple Sauce Max is our farm manager – and is an amazing cook, florist and handyman – and he and his family are friends since he has worked for us for 34 years. A beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Little farm products, Max Arteaga Recipes
Tagged blue cheese, cooking with kids, garlic, Little farm, pepper, pineapple, pumpkin seeds, Salsa, salt, sauce
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Little Farm Mango Chutney
We have lots of mangoes growing in our farm – and with the recent storms we found 6 of them on the ground in the mud. We washed them off, peeled and cut them and VOILA! MANGO CHUTNEY! Here is … Continue reading
