Joe’s birthday falls on Easter this year, and he is thrilled. “I am going to have SO MUCH FUN with that day!” Here’s hoping BirthdayEaster 2014 lives up to his expectations. As a prelude to ALL THE FUN, we will first be dying some eggs. This is something we like to do each year, making it an experiment with different food ingredients. Feel free to use this as a guide,…
I used to cook with the kids at least a few times a week. They would strap on their aprons and we would have the best time stirring, tasting, smelling, and spilling. But somewhere along the way, life got too busy. Dinners became rushed, and when the kids asked to help I would say no. We are in too big of a hurry, so just let Mommy do it! …
Joe is in the middle of a two week spring break. We’ve hit the baseball field, train park, garden and a few friends houses. We’ve listened to Peter Pan and Robin Hood on the record player, built forts and watched old school Garfield cartoons. And that was just week one. Now we’re getting into science experiments. Joe got a science kit for Christmas so we’ve been playing around with acids…
Hi! My name is Joe, and today my sister Leila and I are going to teach you how to make our very favorite sandwich. We love going to eat at a place called Joe’s Farm Grill because they have something called a Peanut Butter Banana Split sandwich. We eat lunch at home almost every day, so one day I asked my mom if we could make a Joe’s Farm Grill…
With the holidays comes extra time in the kitchen cooking with the kiddos. Whether it’s baking up a batch of Christmas cookies or throwing together a quick dinner, they cold weather makes them more likely to gather in the kitchen and want to lend a hand. This week, we tried out our first batch of homemade granola (gluten-free of course). Whether you follow a gluten-free diet or not, this is…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Are you wearing your green? How about eating something green? We celebrated last night by making cauliflower popcorn with green cauliflower from our Bountiful Basket. I always love roasting our green cauliflower, but this time I was inspired by my RD friend Danielle Omar’s photo on Facebook of popcorn cauliflower. It’s basically the same thing, just in smaller pieces. But calling it popcorn made…