kids
Homemade tomato ketchup
We have been harvesting quite a few tomatoes from our greenhouse these past few weeks. Yesterday I decided to give homemade tomato ketchup a try and it was a great success! As with many nice foods, it took a lot longer to make than to eat it. I only made a fairly small batch to [...]
puff pastry with strawberries
We have a lot of fruits and vegetables growing in our garden. Strawberries are currently ripening and we can harvest some almost daily now. One can only eat so many strawberries with whipped cream, so I tried something different: puff pastry with strawberries. Ingredients: Puff pastry sheets Strawberries Sugar Butter Powdered sugar Wash your strawberries [...]
Spaghetti spiders
Today I made some spaghetti spiders with the girls. This dish is very simple to make and the kids love it, the perfect combination! The kids can also help preparing it, which they love to do. Ingredients Dried spaghetti Hotdogs Your favorite pasta sauce (sans the meat) Cut up the hotdogs in bite sized pieces [...]
Home made play dough, safe for kids
Today I have a little different recipe. This recipe is not going to make you something you can eat, but since it uses regular cooking ingredients and is made in the kitchen, I guess it can be posted on this site. I’m not going to lie about it, yesterday I badly needed some play dough. [...]
Potato pancakes
Oh, the childhood memories… My grandmother used to make the best potato pancakes when I was a little boy. She always had to make me some, whenever we went over to visit my grandparents, and I would always help her. Potato pancakes are really easy to make and only require a few ingredients. They can [...]
Eating with chopsticks
The most creative cooks are probably the Japanese. Japanese cuisine is characterized by sheer simplicity and pure tastes. The way Japanese chefs present their food is a real form of art. Eating the food, with chopsticks, is an art form in itself. It is, however, a part of the whole experience, a part that should [...]
One eyed monster breakfast
There are various names for this dish: egg in the basket, egg in a window, egg in the hole, pirates eye, birds nest, hobo toast, eggy toast, o’johnnies, egg in the middle, one eyed Joe, toad in the hole, one eyed Jack, did I forget one? I call them one eyed monsters and the kids [...]
Homemade Pizza
We eat pizza about once a week. It’s one of my favorite foods and the variations are really endless. Don’t tell me that you don’t like pizza, because you can put anything on there that you like, the rest is just bread. When I make pizza, I make pizza. No store bought dough or pizza [...]
Sweet Omelet
Let me show you a quick and easy, yet very tasty, omelet. All you need for this recipe is a couple of eggs, sugar and a splash of milk. Ingredients 2 eggs 2 tbsp. Sugar A little milk Break the eggs into a glass and add the sugar and a splash of milk. Beat with [...]
