Here is a fun and healthy snack your kiddos will enjoy making and eating. Take some fresh strawberries and wash and trim off the green leaves from each. Wash and dry some popsicle sticks and let your little ones push three strawberries through each stick. Place on wax paper and freeze . Once they are frozen you can transfer your Strawberry pops into...
My mom lives in San Diego very near the Tijuana, Mexico border and she is always raving about Tijuana style hotdogs. These are sold by street vendors in Tijuana and also near the border and let me tell you they are freakin' delicious! When I told Chris I was going to make him a Tijuana hotdog for dinner he was not the least...
I made Penelope a Halloween themed bento today. Bologna and cheese ghost sandwich, boo cheese letters, sliced strawberries, pomegranate fruit leather, Tahin flavored pumpkin seeds, blueberries, marshmallow, and a pumpkin spice caramel. Penelope decided she would like to be a ghost for Halloween. I really don't know what her obsession with ghosts is right now but I tried showing her some really cute...
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This was Penelope's lunch yesterday. The letter of the week was G so I made her a G turkey and cheese sandwich over a bed of (G)reen. Romaine and snow peas and yes she even ate the lettuce. I told her she didn't have to but she said "I want to mommy, lettuce is good". She also had pear balls (I used a melon baller), pumpkin...
When we were in Vegas Chris and I had dinner one night at Otto in the Venetian. I had a really yummy Arugula salad, my first one. It was fresh Arugula with shaved Parmesan and an olive oil dressing. Very simple but really good. Since I had some Arugula in the fridge I decided to make a salad for dinner tonight only kicked...
Bottom Tier: Hello Kitty apple cut-outs, chicken salad and crackers, homemade chocolate chip cookie. Top Tier: Strawberry/Apple sauce, yogurt covered raisins & dried blueberries, celery w/ Laughing Cow cheese, snow peas. I love this new bento box it has a strap that connects everything together and makes it easy to carry. We made the cookies a couple of days ago at a friends...
Today we woke up to frost and a very cold morning. Time to start bundling up Penelope for school because it looks like our fall is just about over and winter is just around the corner. I decided to make Penelope a beach oasis in her muffin tin today because surprisingly, since I am not a beach person, that's where I wish I...
I decided to make Penelope some Yaki Onigiri or "Grilled Rice Balls" for lunch today. Yaki Onigiri Sauce 2 tsp Soy Sauce 2 tsp Sake (rice wine) 2 tsp Mirin (similar to Sake only sweeter) 2 tsp Sesame Oil 1 tsp Furikake, Toasted Sesame and Nori flavor (Japanese rice seasoning) 1 cup of cooked Short Grain or Sushi Rice warm Combine all the sauce...
Yesterday was my Japanese lesson and we incorporated another cooking lesson into it. We made Okonomiyaki, a savory Japanese pancake. Okonomi means "what you like" and yaki means "grilled" or "cooked". Here is the basic recipe for the Okonomiyaki we made but there are several variations of this dish depending on what you like. Some additions are mochi, pork, and cheese. As usual the...
The letter of the week at Penelope's school is E. I didn't have anything that started with an E to put in the first tier of her bento other then dark chocolate covered Edamame. Does that count? Bottom Tier: Turkey and cheese E sandwiches, dark chocolate covered Edamame. Middle Tier: Prosciutto wrapped around some sea salt bread sticks, grapes. Top Tier: A medley...
So for today's Taste Me Tuesday I thought I would share something a little different. Living in Alaska hunting and fishing is a very popular pastime and freezers are pretty well stocked here with all kinds of fresh game and seafood. In fact we had to buy a deep freezer for our garage because our neighbor kept supplying us with halibut, salmon, and cod, and...
Penelope's sunflower bloomed! She was so excited when she saw it as was I cause I was sure we would run out of sun before it flowered. I was wrong! YAY! Here it was when we first planted it. Then here when it first sprouted. Growing some more here. And here it is after we replanted it. And finally here it is today!...
Penelope had to create a poster for school to share a little about herself with her classmates. She chose to make her poster on red poster board because red is her favorite color. She also put a picture of herself on the first day of school and one of her dancing. She loves to dance! She also likes princesses, fairies, and Pocoyo and...
We are back from our vacation thanks to Pilot Penelope! ...
