cooking with kids
Making Tutta Bella at Home in Seattle from QFC
February 10, 2022This is a sponsored post on behalf of Tutta Bella and their new at home meal ingredients at QFC and as always the opinions and thoughts in this blog post are my own. If you’ve been following along with this blog for a while you already know Tutta Bella is one of our family’s favorite […]
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A review: Goodles Mac and Cheese
January 25, 2022This post is a sponsored post in partnership with Moms Meet to try Goodles Mac and Cheese and post my honest opinions. Compensation for this post was provided and this page may contain affiliate links. And as always the ideas in this blog are my own. I have really vivid memories of making and eating […]
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Learning some quick and easy side dishes for Ling Ling potstickers and Chinese New Year with chef Katie Chin
January 31, 2019This post was sponsored by Ling Ling, all opinions expressed in my post are my own Last week I was invited to a fun cooking event hosted by Ling Ling in Seattle to learn how to make yummy side dishes for Chinese New Year to accompany their tasty potstickers. Ling Ling makes pork and vegetable, chicken […]
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Cookbook Cleanse for the New Year
January 8, 2014I went on a bit of a buying frenzy last year with my cookbooks when the kids started school. I was excited to make home-made dinners and I guess I thought HAVING a ton of books would make me cook more but then it made me realize that I needed more cooking tools: more pans, […]
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Easy French Toast for your weekend
November 8, 2013Sunny weekend mornings need yummy breakfasts and this is the type of recipe for easy French toast that doesn’t really matter if you add a little bit too much or too little of anything. We usually use leftover potato bread from either Macrina Bakery or Tom Douglas, but I’ve even used sliced bread and it […]
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Back to School with Pillsbury Biscuits: Decorated Grilled Cheese
September 13, 2013We are totally settling into the school routine. The boys are only half-day and I love how we still get to make and eat lunch together. I know I’m really going to miss this time when they start going to school ALL day long, even though sometimes I want to tear my hair out […]
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Stained Glass Jello
November 7, 2012I want to perfect this recipe before Christmas because I think it has a lot of potential for fun festive treats and it’s great for helping preschoolers with cutting/dumping/mixing and colors. I remember eating a TON of jello as a kid, and it’s not as fatty/sweet/deadly as cake, you can mix it with fruit for […]
Read MoreIf your generous neighbor has a plum tree
September 8, 2012this is the perfect recipe from Smitten Kitchen (a lovely food blog.) We tried it because of its adorable name: who couldn’t love a “dimply plum cake”? The boys helped by cutting up the plums. I gave them plastic takeout knives and the plastic ones from Ikea and we decided the takeout ones were a […]
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Berry Picking and a recipe
July 20, 2012Every month I get a ton of magazines and one of my favorites is Sunset Magazine, so when a friend asked me to go berry picking a couple weeks ago, I thought it would be the perfect way to try out this recipe for a buttery raspberry lemon cake from the July issue. The boys […]
Read MoreThree things I want at Williams-Sonoma
May 11, 2012Maybe its gauche to say I want something three days before Mother’s Day, but it’s only because these silly catalogs keep coming all this week that I want so many things. And these things are really random and somewhat healthy so I thought I’d share. These are three things I’m likely going to buy myself […]
Read MoreCrafty little things
February 13, 2012Today I got a little overly-crafty. I thought we’d make a little tray of bento cucumber “Frogs in Love” for a playdate today as the Bean adores frogs. But it got to be a little much. I got as far as cutting out the frog shapes and cheese eyes and then realized I still needed […]
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Cinnamon Monkey Bread (a baking experiment with twin toddlers)
January 16, 2011Last week we were dying to bake something. It was rainy and miserable outside and I heard somewhere that you could make cinnamon monkey bread with pizza dough so I googled and got this recipe from mealsmatter.org: 2 – 1 lb Packages refrigerated pizza dough 1 tbsp Cinnamon 1 cup Sugar 8 tbsp Butter, melted […]
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Festive Breakfast in a Box from Trader Joes (Ballard, Seattle, WA)
November 21, 2010On cold weekend mornings like the one we had today, there is nothing better than pancakes. Usually, we go to our tried and true Snoqualmie Falls Pancake Mix, but I spotted this at Trader Joe’s yesterday, and thought we’d try it out:It was a little harder than Snoqualmie, as we had to add milk, eggs […]
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