Archive for the ‘cooking’ Category


Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 in cooking, party time, recipes

This is my first attempt at candy making or peanut butter cup making. I had to do it twice to figure it out. Who knew candy making was so tough and precise? And that you can’t chat to your husband or mom and let anything go one degree over…I now know. Homemade Peanut Butter Cups […]

Shrimp and Cheese Dip

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 in cooking, recipes

YES.  Seafood and cheese…but oh, it works and you must try. When I was a nanny back in Boston, the family I worked for had this famous dish they made every Christmas that had been passed down from the wife’s grandmother. It was too yummy and easy to forget so for the past 5 years […]

Raising Kids on Real Food FAIL

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

Well it *WAS* a fabulous idea, but trying new foods doesn’t always work out… At the Farmer’s Market a local farmer told me I should try turning the persimmons into chips. He said they are very, very sweet and kids love them. Just let them ripen for about a week when you buy them fresh […]

Oklahoma Chicken

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 in cooking, recipes

I am not a *huge* fan of crock-pot meals…except for one. Oklahoma Chicken is actually the first thing I ate when visiting my soon to be in laws for the first time. We came in late and they saved plates of this for us. Oh man.  It was sooo good and I soon learned to make […]

Homemade Granola Bars

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking, recipes

We spend a lot of money on granola bars.  Actually, the girls call them “Treat Bars” and love having them for snack time. About once every 6 weeks I drive up to a Whole Foods 45 minutes away to buy a certain kind I like and, boy, if they ever go on sale we stock up! […]

Pizza Sundays

Well when I *USED* to cook…back in the day… Sundays became Pizza Day, which is a bit weird I know.  But my husband really doesn’t like the “classic” Sunday dinners. I love making pizza for dinner guests too.  Before I got sick I tried three new recipes and TWO of them turned out. The one that didn’t […]

Recipe Tuesday…Eh…Maybe Not

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 in About Me, Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

Nope. No cooking going on over here. My day is either filled with spilling my cookies or telling my body NOT to do it. If you could hear my brain thinking for the full day, you would hear things like this: “No.  No.  No.  KEEP IT IN!” or “Think of ice, nice cool ice,” or “BE A […]

Berry Crisp & Berry Picking

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 in Raising Kids on Read Food, cooking

My sister, Rebecca, asked me if I would like to go berry picking last week. YES! I have a kid that has been addicted to berries since her first taste at the age of one. OBSESSED, I tell you, and the rest of us love berries too.  Plus, I have been so tired and I […]

Rainbow Tostadas

So easy, SO TASTY.  And they look really pretty too! Ingredients: 1 Red Tomato, 1 Orange Tomato and 1 Yellow Tomato, diced 1/2 red onion, minced 1/2 bunch of cilantro, finely minced 3 earns of corn, cooked and kernels cut off 2 avocados, diced 2 mangos, diced 1 can of black beans, rinsed 2 limes […]

Raw Melissa

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 in cooking

Raw Melissa’sfood is SOOooooOOoo yummy. She is one those ladies who just GLOWS inside and out.  When she wants to share something (she is not pushy at all) about her products or the way she lives or eats, you WANT to listen. You want to take notes and do it with no questions asked!  I have […]