Cooking With Kids

Velvety Sugar Cookies

December 18, 2010

My sisters and I have fond memories of making sugar cookies when we were kids. We always made them during the holidays. We enjoy making them, cutting them out, frosting them, and of course eating them. My mom never looked for perfection in the sugar cookies we made. She let us have fun and be [...]

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Apple Nachos

October 20, 2010

This recipe is adapted from an Apple Nacho Recipe I saw in a recent Taste Of Home magazine. However, I really adapted the recipe and made it much more simple. The original recipe had you making your own caramel sauce, which you could do, but I took the easy way out and opened a jar [...]

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Creamy Scrambled Eggs

August 24, 2010

My ten year old daughter has been in the cooking mood again. When she heard me say that we were having breakfast for dinner she immediately asked if she could pick the recipe. I am so glad that she is showing an interest in cooking and I am trying to just go with it when she asks to [...]

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Yogurt Pops

August 3, 2010

My ten year old daughter has really taken an interest in cooking lately. She has asked several times recently if she could look through my cookbooks just to see what she could find. I think I may just have a fellow foodie in my daughter. All too often though, I am in a hurry in [...]

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Cooking With Kids

June 28, 2009

I have not done a cooking with kids post recently. The kids have been helping a lot in the kitchen, but I have not done a lot of specific recipes with them. My 11 year old daughter however did make dinner for us recently. She made us tostadas. It was a great recipe for her [...]

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Cooking With Kids

June 2, 2009

It is summer time, are your kids bored? I think all kids get bored at some point over the summer. They wait and wait for it to arrive and when it does they don’t know what to do with all the time they have. They no longer have a schedule or routine. So, let’s give [...]

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Cooking With Kids

April 8, 2009

This is how molasses cookies are supposed to look. My daughter and I made molasses cookies or should I say we tried to make molasses cookies, the other day. We were working on them together and were enjoying making them. We were even playing around a little. We were having fun, but not paying attention. [...]

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Cooking With Kids

February 24, 2009

Today I want to talk about having fun in the kitchen while cooking with kids. This is something I have been trying to get better at. I am trying hard to relax a little and let the kids be kids, even when it comes to cooking. Last week I decided to make some brownies. My [...]

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Cooking With Kids-Making Peanut Butter

February 12, 2009

I finally have a fairly healthy cooking with kids recipe. My kids loved this recipe. We made this yesterday and it was a fun afternoon project. My kids all thought it was so fun. I liked it because I think it helps them relate to food better. My son was thrilled to find out peanut [...]