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 […]
Cooking With Kids It’s apple harvest time and caramel and candy apples are a common treat at all autumn festivals. Caramel apples are easier to make than candy apples and the kids will love dipping apples on-a-stick in caramel and rolling them in toppings (we used chopped peanuts) before cooling. Candy apples are covered in a hard sugar candy coating and […]
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 […]
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 […]
thewordaccordingtoeggface Cooking with Kids It’s not hard to find healthy red, white, and blue treats for the kids to eat this Labor Day Weekend. For this snack we used fresh strawberries and blueberries and plain Greek yogurt. If the kids you care for don’t like plain yogurt simply use vanilla yogurt instead. You Will Need: Fresh […]
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic by Jimmy Kennedy All boys and girls all have teddy bears. Teddy Bears’ Picnic is a classic book loved by all children. After reading the book listen to a recording of the song that has the same verses as the book. Songs help children hear syllables. Along with reading The Teddy Bears’ Picnic by […]
Easiest Cookie Recipe Ever The International Nanny Association (INA) published a great cookbook in 2000 entitled, Beyond Peanut Butter and Jelly. The cookbook includes recipes to make with kids, crafts, creative holiday parties, and birthday theme parties. The cookbook has my favorite cookie recipe ever that I have made many dozens of times over the years. The peanut […]
Easy Recipe for Quiche Lorraine The children I care for love anything that they can call pie. So as a yummy lunch, dinner, or treat I often make them Quiche Lorraine, but I tell the kids I am serving them “Egg Pie.” Here’s an easy recipe for Quiche Lorraine / Egg Pie I found at […]
Cooking for Kids What kid doesn’t love pizza? Who doesn’t love bagels? Kids love making pizza bagels as much as eating them. Below we describe how to make a basic pizza bagel but nannies can mix it up and use other ingredients to make other types of pizza bagels as well. For example, to make a barbecue chicken […]
Cooking With Kids Summer is a wonderful time, but with it comes the “Summer Slide.” Learning slips and even basic knowledge takes a vacation. This is especially true with preschoolers and kindergartners who are just learning their letters, counting, and the like. Making alphabet cookies is a sweet way to keep learning in the home […]
