OK, so smile potatoes aren’t the healthiest food out there, but they really can’t help but make you smile… …especially when they make such cute leftover bentos! Also, mini sandwich thins are about the best invention ever – the girls both adore mini foods. If it has “mini” in the name they are far more [...]
Posted in Food, School Days | Tagged Bento
Carolyn was going to buy for her first day. But when I mentioned that I would make her “back to school” bento the second day, then, she changed her mind. I’m out of practice, a bit, so I packed this one the night before. (All but the cookies – I added those in first thing [...]
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Today we had an apple tasting, made homemade applesauce, and painted…or tried to…with cut up apples. First, I dug the various varieties of apples out of our fridge: I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of summer gold, and based on how incredibly tart they were I suspect the man at the farmer’s market just picked [...]
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To wrap up our “What’s Cooking?” week, we made Salad People (the title recipe of our kids’ cookbook) for lunch today. Is it bad that I pretended the “people” were saying “aaaaaaaahhhhhhh!” while I was cutting the pear bodies up so the kids could eat them…?
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After the girls had played enough with the dyed pasta, we made Sunrise Lemonade (from Salad People.) It was a pretty simple recipe (I had to make “simple syrup” – just a mix of equal parts sugar and water – before we started) and the manual juicer I bought worked really well (though the kids [...]
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We’ve already done layered berry and yogurt parfaits this week, and I wanted to come up with another “themed” snack for today. Red, white & blue skewers! This is a great “kids in the kitchen” snack – part craft, part eating! (And even, if you ask them to follow a pattern skewering the types of [...]
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I was very disappointed when the Naked Pizza place near us closed – most regular pizza gives me terrible heartburn, but this place had some secret crust recipe that somehow didn’t bother me, plus it was pretty Weight Watchers friendly. But they closed, abruptly and without explanation. So I’ve been on a quest, to make [...]
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It’s the last week of school, which means “Cook’s Choice” for the whole week on the lunch menu. “Cook’s Choice” (aka whatever’s left in the bottom of the fridge) is not a friendly sounding thing to a somewhat picky eater, so Carolyn has been bringing her lunch all week. This morning at 8:05 (the bus [...]
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We’ve had this cookbook for a while, and used it a few times, but never to make the title recipe. Today we made Salad People for dinner. Carrie couldn’t decide between making a person, robot or alien, so it’s a combination of all three. And I’ve discovered that the kids don’t even like cottage cheese [...]
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Carrie, Uncle Michael and I decorated a whole gingerbread village yesterday. It’s a *lot* more work putting together and decorating five tiny houses than one big one! Good thing Carrie has teeny-tiny fingers, because Michael and I couldn’t manage the teeny-tiny candies they included in the kit – they were practically sprinkles. I think “candy” [...]
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