Sweet, Sour, and Crunchy Chicken Drumsticks

Cooking for Kids The little ones I cook dinner for love chicken drumsticks. I marinated these drumsticks in the sweet and sour sauce for a few hours then rolled them in the breadcrumbs and started baking them 45-minutes before dinner was served. Serving mashed potatoes and steamed green beans with the drumsticks make a complete […]

Making Paninis

Cooking with Kids There’s no reason kids should only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. Step it up a notch and take a few extra minutes to make them warm paninis this winter. The warm grilled sandwich combinations are almost limitless. And you don’t have to only use ordinary, boring white or wheat […]

How to Make Cranberry Bliss Bars

Cooking With Kids By topsecretrecipes.com  Do you love the Cranberry Bliss Bars that are sold every holiday season at Starbucks? Well TopSecretRecipes.com has a recipe that is similar to the delicious treat found at my favorite coffee house. This isn’t an easy recipe to make but when I give it as a gift during the […]

Thanksgiving Cornucopias

Cooking With Kids Cornucopias, sometimes called Horn of Plenties, are a common symbol of Thanksgiving. Typically cornucopias are filled with the produce, flowers, and foods of the harvest. Here’s a quick and easy cornucopia made with ice cream cones for the kids for Thanksgiving. What You Need: Waffle Cones or Large Sugar Ice Cream Cones Favorite […]

Beefy Cheesy Pasta

Cooking with Kids All kids love mac n’ cheese but here’s a great recipe I found years ago at allrecipes.com that adds ground beef or ground turkey for a boost of protein. It’s a favorite dish of my charges and their friends who join us for lunches or dinners. Parents and nannies ask me for the recipe […]

Cranberry Orange Mini Muffins

Cooking With Kids Cranberries are North America’s most historically significant native berry. Kids love cranberries and mini muffins. These cranberry orange mini muffins from food.com make a great snack or after dinner treat. Make a double batch and stick some in the freezer to throw into school lunches. What You Need: 1 cup sugar 1 orange, juice […]

Best Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Soup Soothes Sore Throats There is nothing like warm soup to soothe a sore throat. The family I work for and I have had terribly sore throats this week. But, we have a viral infection that antibiotics cannot treat so we only have hot fluids and rest to ease the suffering. I served the sick […]

Meatloaf Patties, Smashed Potatoes, and Pan Gravy

Cooking for Kids: Rachael Ray I cook dinner for my employers four days per week. By far their favorite meal is the meatloaf recipe pictured to the left and described below by Rachael Ray in her cookbook Kid Food: Rachael Ray’s Top 30: 30-Minute Meals. The gravy is the key to making this the best meatloaf the family […]

Cheddar Bacon Ranch Pulls

Cooking With Kids I have teen-aged boys come to the house after school to play soccer, hockey, and basketball each day. They need big snacks with a lot of sustenance to have enough energy to play their sports. That’s why I constantly search the Internet for snacks for the back of high-energy teens. Luckily the […]

Green Eggs (and Ham!)

Wednesdays with Whitney Dr. Seuss’ birthday is March 2nd and it is National Read Across America week, which means you only have a few days left to prep for the most rhyme-tastic celebration of the year. Add a special touch to the day by making (and playing) with some green eggs. Sounds suspicious? Don’t think you’ll […]