What's for Dinner

Everyone pitched in to help make dinner.  My seven year old cracked a dozen eggs for our crustless quiche and WAHOO we are making progress; the more she cracks (a job she likes) the less shells to remove...she is really improving...a benefit to cooking often! 

My middle guy grated the sharp cheese and made what we dubbed the 'hay stack'.  It was like a game; he wanted to see if he could make it all fit on the lunch plate vs. using a larger surface.  He met the challenge with success and hence the 'hay stack' came about.

In the end we made a crustless quiche with eggs, spinach, turkey bacon, turkey sausage and cheese.  The vote:

Thumbs up from the 12 year old.

Thumbs down from the 7 year old, but she tried it!

So-so from the dad in our house and our oldest wasn't home to try it or vote...

Bananas....

My daughter will not eat bananas straight up!  But, she will eat them with a layer of peanut butter, a drizzle of honey, a sprinkle of cinnamon and a topping of Grape Nuts!  And, as you can see from the plate she LOVES to create this meal ALL ON HER OWN!  No complaints here...healthy, tasty, quick fixin' and fun!

Winter Fun in the Kitchen

Our kitchen is typically used for experimenting and we are continuing that practice just a little differently today. 

We were bombarded with snow and it was that good old fashioned snow that's perfect for making snowmen...snowball wars and anything else you can sculpt.  During our fort building, snow man building occasional snowball pellet activities one of my kids said, "Wouldn't it be fun to whip out snow balls in the middle of July and just hit someone with one and see what happens...."  So, I said..."go ahead make a few snow balls, we'll freeze them and see what happens!"

So, my freezer currently is the host of Snowballs for July!  Hey, they're only kids once....and why not?!?

The Elbow Squash!

A mom just sent me some photo's with permission ot use them from the Snow Ball Cookie making event last week.  It's the perfect cature of the Elbow Squash that took place that I was referring to in my earlier blog;

"Did she say do a crummy job and squash the cookies?"

"Wait a minute...that other kid isn't using his hands to crumble up the cookies..."

"Well if my big sister isn't using her hands, I'm not either!"

And, so was the invention of one creative child in each session that lead the others to follow suit and begin what is now known as the Elbow Squash in the Snow Ball Cookie frenzy! 

Snowballs on the Inside!

There were many hands to help mix up the Snowball Cookies and everyone got a chance to add ingredients, stir it up and roll their own snow balls!

After we added the ingredients for the base everyone had to crush up some cookies to add; one of their favorite parts of the process.  Amazingly, in each session it would take one child to start crushing their cookies with their elbows and the entire room would follow suit.  We had three sessions and it happened every time.  Even my own guys, who are pretty creative with their cooking (AKA potato head) haven't thought of the elbow crushing cooking move, which made it rather fascinating that it happened in each session.  Funny!

In the end, they loved the rolling and dipping ...

and ultimately the eating!

Thanks for joining me!  And, remember don't throw these snowballs at your mom or dad!

What's Up this Week?!?!?

Friday, February 26

4:30 pm

Albany Mommies Event

Tumbling Tykes

1050 Troy Schenectady Rd.

Latham, NY

Stay tuned for more cooking fun in March...

Film Day!

We were filming forward for April and with a focus on Eath Day we cooked up a fun dinner at the Price Chopper Kids Cooking Club.  We made the Ring of Fire for the main course...

Volcanic Ashed Potatoes as our side dish.  But, everyone dived right in and ate them so we didn't even get a picture...Oh well.  Stay tuned because it's a good recipe coming out in April; three thumbs up from the kids I cooked with....

And then we topped off our meal with fossil cookies for dessert.

It was a great day !