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Get your kids eating every piece of fruit on their plate with these delicious fruit recipes for kids!

Poison Apple Juice?

December 1, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 7 Comments

Are they kidding me?

Arsenic in the apple juice?

fruits Poison Apple Juice?

courtesy entertainmentdesktop.com

How could the FDA allow higher arsenic levels in the juice…

Than in drinking water?

And these levels are based on a full grown adult.

Not a child!

I’ve read the Consumer Reports test.

It appears that

Motts

Walgreens

and Welch’s Grape Juice

are the biggest concerns.

fruits Poison Apple Juice?So what’s a parent to do?

What’s a country to do?

I’ll tell you one thing…

I’m not buying anymore til they figure all this out.

fruits Poison Apple Juice?But what am I supposed to think about all of the juice they’ve already had??

What are you going to do?

Will you still drink it?

Will you give it to your kids?

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Apple Week – Dutch Babies with warm apples

October 7, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 5 Comments

So you all know how much we looooove our pancakes around here.

We have them pretty much…

Every.

Single.

Weekend.

But sometimes you want to switch up your pancake just a bit.

Enter the Dutch Babies!

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Want to know the boys favorite part?

They each get their own little ramekin made special just for them!

WHAT YOU NEED:

4 T butter

4 eggs

1 c. milk

1 c. flour

¼ sugar

1 t. vanilla

for the apple topping:

2 granny smith apple, peeled, cored, and sliced

1 t butter

1/4 t salt

1/4 t cinammon

1 T sugar

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Combine eggs, milk, flour, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl and whisk well.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

When butter has melted pour equally into small ramekins and swish butter around in the bottom of each to coat.  (If you don’t have ramekins just batter into skillet then transfer into oven.)  Place ramekins on a baking sheet and put into the oven.

Bake for 25 minutes.  Sides will be golden brown and puffy.

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Meanwhile melt remaining butter over medium high heat.  Toss in apples, sugar, salt and cinammon.  Allow to cook until apples are nice and soft and caramelized.

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Remove dutch babies from oven and serve immediately.  Top with powdered sugar and apples.

 

 

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Liquid Refreshment Week – Lava Flow

August 10, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 11 Comments

Nothing says tropical vacation to me

Like my favorite drink!

Enter…

The Lava Flow!

featured Liquid Refreshment Week Lava Flow

Sadly funds have been low…

Thanks to the economy.

Thanks to Congress, The White House, The Fed…Thanks again guys!

But that’s a whole other post.

I have to make myself believe that my house is a tropical island getaway.

featured Liquid Refreshment Week Lava Flow

Can you feel the trade winds?

Well if you drink enough of these bad boys I assure you…

YOU WILL!

Best thing about Lava Flows?

They’re filled with yummy fruity goodness!

So just leave out the rum and serve em up to the munchkins!

Just put their share into yours and you’ll be hula dancing in no time!

featured Liquid Refreshment Week Lava Flow

 

Make a big blender full!

Note – I’m making the full throttle version here…leave out the rum for the kiddos!

WHAT YOU NEED:

2 cups strawberries

4 oz light rum

4 oz coconut rum (Malibu is my fave)

3 bananas

1/2 cup pineapple chunks

1 cup pineapple juice

1 cup cream of coconut (NOT coconut milk!  It’s not thick enough.)

Crushed ice cubes

WHAT TO DO:

In the blender combine the rum and strawberries.  Blend until smooth.  Pour into the bottom of four glasses.

Rinse the blender and then add remaining ingredients.  Blend until smooth.  Pour the mixture over the strawberry mixture SLOWLY and watch the lava rise up the glass!

Aloha!

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Grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce

July 27, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 12 Comments

Blueberry week rolls on!

We grilled up some yummy pork chops…

Then topped them with a delicious grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce.

Amazing!

dinner Grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce

WHAT YOU NEED:

Grilled pork chops (we marinated ours in teriyaki sauce and grilled them for 10 minutes)

1/2 pineapple, cubed and grilled with pork chops

1 T butter

2 cups blueberries (organic and locally grown if possible)

1/4 cup white wine

1/4 cup maple syrup

3 T brown mustard

S&P

WHAT TO DO:

In a medium sauce pan heat the butter over medium high heat.  Toss in blueberries and grilled pineapple.  Let the blueberries heat up and start to burst.

Once the blueberries have cooked for about 4-5 minutes add in white wine and allow alcohol to burn off.  Pour in syrup and let cook for another 5 minutes.

Stir in mustard and season with S&P.

dinner Grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce

Allow sauce to simmer until pork chops are cooked and have rested for at least 10 minutes.

Pour sauce over pork chops and enjoy!

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Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

July 25, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 12 Comments

Happy Blueberry Month!

We love us some blueberry desserts!

baking with kids Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

And cobbler is one of our faves.

Have you tried this new Jack Daniels honey liquor?

baking with kids Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

It’s amazing!

Spice up your cobbler with it and you’ll be tickled!

Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

WHAT YOU NEED:

6 cups fresh local blueberries

2 sticks  unsalted butter, divided

1 c sugar, divided

2 T corn starch

1 T lemon juice

1 t ground cinnamon

1/2 cup Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey (honey liquor)

¾ t salt, divided

1 ½ c all purpose flour

2 T baking powder

¾ c heavy cream

1 whole egg

1 T water

2 T sugar in the raw

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

In a large pot melt 4 T butter.  Cut remaining butter into cubes and place in freezer.

Add blueberries and ½ cup sugar to the melted butter.  Stir in corn starch, lemon juice, cinnamon, ¼ t salt, and Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey.  Mix well.  Cook for a few minutes to allow the alcohol to burn off then turn off heat.

In your food processor sift in flour, remaining sugar, baking powder, and remaining salt.  Pulse quickly to combine.

Add in butter from the freezer and pulse until the flour mixture looks like sand.

Pour in cream and pulse again quickly just until the dough comes together and is slightly sticky.

Beat your egg in a small bowl and add water.  Set aside.

Pour your fruit mixture into a 9×13 baking dish. (You can also make this in a cast iron skillet or in individual gratin dishes for individual cobblers.)

Drop the dough by spoonfuls onto the fruit mixture, spread it out as it will all cook together in the oven.  Brush the top of the batter with egg wash then sprinkle on sugar.

baking with kids Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

Place the pan on a baking sheet to catch “bubble over” and bake at 375 for 45 minutes or until golden brown.  Serve with ice cream or whip cream.

 

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Fruit Week – Groovy Smoothies

June 24, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 4 Comments

This has to be one of Brady’s favorite things in the world!

He LOVES to make and drink the smoothies!

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

And if he didn’t love it enough before.

Now I have to listen to this bunch…

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

Do these kids haunt you too?

It’s the Fresh Beat Band and they like to hang out at the Groovy Smoothie and drink fruity concoctions.

And if that’s not enough….

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

That iCarly crew loves the fruity smoothies too.

So with the help of these shows…all my kids are into the smoothies!

Granted Brady loves fruit all kinds of ways but this is a treat for him.

And since he’s still milking the tonsil thing I’ve been making a bunch of these bad boys.

Now I’m all for making these with all those fresh berries that you can get at your local farms this time of year.

But I think smoothies are better with Frozen Berries!

That way I don’t have to use ice cubes to make them all nice and frothy!

FYI – those frozen berries work great for frozen margaritas too!

Just saying…

It is Friday after all…

breakfasts Fruit Week Groovy Smoothies

STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIES

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 cup frozen organic strawberries (or blackberries or any other kind of frozen fruit you have)

1 cup frozen organic blueberries

1 cup organic skim milk

1 cup organic low fat vanilla yogurt

2 T honey

1 t flax seed oil (this I just toss in because it’s just so darn good for you!)

WHAT TO DO:

Combine all of the ingredients in a blender.  Blend on high for a minute or until smooth and creamy.  Enjoy.

Feel free to try any combo of fruit you have.  Bananas would make a great addition!  Mango, pineapple, raspberry!

If you don’t have frozen fruit, just add a bunch of ice cubes to make it thick and smooth.

If you have picky eaters this is a great way to get some fruit into them.  Who doesn’t love a smoothie?

And if you want…this is a fantastic place to add in a bit of frozen spinach for a little extra healthy punch.


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