by Kate Otterstrom | Apr 13, 2023 | Food
If you bring your lunch with you when you travel you can avoid over-expensive and under-nourishing convenience food. Here are a few guidelines. Choose sturdy foods that are not too squishable. For example, bagels are better than sliced breads if you would like to have...
by Kate Otterstrom | Apr 13, 2023 | 40 Minute Meals, Food
I’ll be honest, it took a bit of persistence to get my kiddos to appreciate vegetable soup. There was a fair amount of distrust of soup in general because it involved so many things combined together in one entity. And then there was the fact that the vegetables...
by admin | Apr 13, 2023 | Food
One time, years ago when I still had really little kiddos and we went to the library every week, I found a cookbook that was full of tips and plans for making the dinners for an entire month in one day. I was intrigued because, even then, with maybe two kiddos in...
by admin | Apr 10, 2023 | Food, Gluten-free Treats
Nancy D has always loved Peeps more than the rest of my kiddos. She loves to watch videos of them being made. She loves to collect stuffed models of the candy. And, of course, she loves to eat the Peeps! I actually really like them too. Marshmallow is certainly a very...
by Kate Otterstrom | Mar 15, 2023 | Food
When I initially heard about sheet pan dinners, I was definitely interested. Who doesn’t like the idea of minimizing the number of dishes that are clammoring to be washed up after dinner? This dinner uses two sheet pans and a mixing bowl and is just as easy to...
by Kate Otterstrom | Mar 15, 2023 | Food
I’m not sure when I first tasted preserved lemons. They offer that special je ne sais quoi that I may have sort of noticed in a restaurant dinner years ago, but was unable to pinpoint at the time. Essentially, preserved lemons should not be a prominent feature...
