Kid lit inspires cooking
When kids ask if they can help make dinner, we can respond with appreciation. This may increase your prep time and double the mess, but the rewards are worth it. One of our kids checked out a cookbook from the school library last week and brought home extra enthusiasm. Studying The Boxcar Children Cookbook won’t […]
Get Bakin’ with the Food Allergy Cookie Contest
Dust off those cookie recipes, food allergy friends. There’s still time to enter the FAANtastic Divvies Cookie Contest. Enter your allergy friendly recipe – no peanuts, tree nuts, milk or eggs – by February 15, 2010. Browse the fine print in FAAN’s cookie contest guidelines and share your best bet with those of us managing food allergies.
Blog birthday – two years today
Today marks two years of blogging at The Cookery. To sum it up, we shy away from food propaganda, and believe in giving credit where it’s due. When we started receiving a high volume of hits on a few or our personal Cub Scout posts early in 2009, we answered the call with a guest post from Pack 61’s Ken […]
Giving and receiving from The Cookery
When almost all is well and The Cookery is up and running at full speed, we give gifts for the table at Christmas and all year through. This year, we’ve been on the receiving end of a variety of gifts of food. Thank you friends, family and neighbors, for your spirit and kindness.
Past and Present-Pa’s Famous Fudge
It’s true, we saw a few flurries of snow in Austin last Friday. But proof of the season, a Christmas present from Pa and Gram, arrived on our door step this week. The Austin “snow” didn’t last long and neither will our tin of fudge. Here’s an invitation to make your own batch of Pa’s Famous Fudge.
Holly Jolly Dirt Cake
Holly Jolly Dirt Cake Here’s another no-bake adventure for kids who enjoy cooking. Little kids, if making this for an adult, like to pretend the cake really is dirt! I’ve modified it as the quantity of sugar would have the ‘cooks’ standing on the table throwing the mix at each other and the amount of […]
Cranberry sauce smoothies
Reach into the refrigerator and recycle your leftover cranberry sauce with a festive take on smoothies. Blend this: two bananas 8 ounces yogurt 1 cup ice two tablespoons leftover cranberry sauce (We prepared the sauce two days ago with water, fresh cranberries, grated orange peel, and sugar.) Yield: Four small smoothies.
Giving – Do It Yourself Hot Chocolate
Giving – better than receiving. As the holiday season comes around the two perennial bugbears loom closer. How can we manage gifts when we have neither time nor money to shop? And how, while we are at this pity-party do we convince the children that it is better to give than to receive? We […]
Don’t chuck the pumpkin seeds
We’re carving pumpkins this evening . . . and roasting the seeds to a crunch. Don’t chuck the seeds. Give your pumpkin seeds this quick oven roast.
Epi makes appearance in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Epipen toters and allergy-alert pals . . . the new animated film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs shines a light on Epipens and peanut allergies. The food allergy scene hit home with my allergy-alert family . . . ready with a chance of . . . peanut brittle.