Cooking up love and learning in the fast lane!
Do you ever just get sick of coming up with a menu every single week? Some weeks I just can't think of anything. It drives me crazy. So I made a menu planner to do it for me! I filled in a spreadsheet with all the things I could think of that we EVER eat,… Continue reading Menu Planner
I spent so long getting this recipe wrong, I actually sat around one day making batch after batch until I got it to come out right. What can I say? Making perfect fudge is an important skill! But no more! I have successfully mastered the Never Fail recipe at long last! So here's the recipe (which, actually, is pretty simple) with my notes on how to truly make it "Never Fail"!
One of the easy meals I plunked on our cooking challenge checklist was enchiladas. Husband likes red sauce and ground beef, but since I'm trying to teach kids to cook without too much dealing with stoves or raw meat, I went ahead and taught them a recipe for white sauce chicken ones instead! Obviously, it's not a very authentic Mexican dish, but these are the enchiladas I grew up on and I still love them. My family tends to call them "Food Storage Enchiladas" because almost every ingredient is canned and you can stock up on it for your 3 months (or year) of food storage!
As promised in my Learning to Cook Challenge, I've got an easy recipe for your up-and-coming chefs to try out! I don't know about at your house, but where we are at it is HOT. Which translates into perfect weather for popsicles, icees, ice cream... ...and LEMONADE PIE. My uncle has a July birthday, and… Continue reading Lemonade Pie
Red was staring at the blender base I'd left on the counter the other day. "I want to make something," he told me. "What did you have in mind?" I asked. Partially, I was being a super-awesome-parent and letting him have a say, not putting ideas in his brain, etc, but the other partially was… Continue reading The Learning to Cook Challenge
My mom is not a fantastic cook. I'm not being mean, you can ask her, she's just not! She has many, MANY talents...cooking just isn't one of them. I'll skip the stories (although there are some good ones) because she'll kill me if I publish them on the internet. One thing I do remember her… Continue reading Jazzed Up Mac & Cheese
Cookies & Racecars 