Getting your kids to eat what you cook!
Get your kids eating every piece of fruit on their plate with these delicious fruit recipes for kids!
These refreshing little sipsters are good all year round
But your little leprechauns will be drinking them up this time of year for sure!
WHAT YOU NEED:
strawberries
oranges
pineapple
kiwi
and
blueberries
WHAT TO DO:
Layer chopped fruit into an ice cube tray.
red = strawberries
orange = oranges
yellow = pineapple
green = kiwi
blue = blueberries
Top each cube with seltzer water. Freeze. Serve with pineapple juice and fun straws.
What do you get when you cross a Pina Colada and Bubbie’s Kugel?
Tropical Noodle Kugel!
Try this fun fruity version of the good ol’ fashioned kind that Bubbie used to make.
It’s like being in the islands…on Hanukkah.
Tropical Noodle Kugel
Serves 8-10 Prep time: 25 minutes Cook Time: 55 minutes
Try this fun new spin on Bubbie’s traditional noodle kugel. This one has the feel of the islands infused into its layers of yummy creamy goodness.
1 16 ounce package egg noodles
½ cup unsalted butter, melted
6 large eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups sour cream
1 t coconut extract
1 t cinnamon
1 cup sweetened coconut milk
1 cup cottage cheese
¾ cup diced pineapple
1 t kosher salt
Topping:
¾ cup graham cracker crumbs
½ cup shredded coconut
3 T unsalted butter, melted
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Bring a large pot of water to boil. When it’s boiling salt the water well and add noodles. Cook to al dente, about 1 -2 minutes shy of package directions for fully cooked noodles. Drain well and toss with melted butter.
While your noodles cook grab a large mixing bowl. Stir together eggs, sugar, sour cream, coconut extract, coconut milk, cinnamon, salt and cottage cheese. When well blended, gently fold in your pineapple chunks. Add noodles and mix well.
In a small bowl combine remaining melted butter, graham cracker crumbs and coconut. Transfer noodle mixture to a greased 13×9 baking dish. Top with graham cracker mixture.
Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes before serving.
Trust me…This is the most delicious kugel you have ever had. Try not to eat the whole pan before Bubbie gets to try it. Not that I ate the whole pan, well not on purpose at least…
Are they kidding me?
Arsenic in the 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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
Remove dutch babies from oven and serve immediately. Top with powdered sugar and apples.
Nothing says tropical vacation to me
Like my favorite drink!
Enter…
The 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.
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!
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!
Blueberry week rolls on!
We grilled up some yummy pork chops…
Then topped them with a delicious grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce.
Amazing!
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.
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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