Easy Dinner Mashed Potatoes and Meatballs

This is definitely our family staple, my kids love mashed potatoes with meatballs.  It is quick and easy to make, and you can have a healthy home cooked meal in 30 minutes. Ingredients: Mashed Potatoes 8 medium potatoes 1 tbsp salt 1/8 cup butter 1/2 cup milk Meatballs 1 pound ground meat 1 cup milk… Continue reading Easy Dinner Mashed Potatoes and Meatballs

Healthy Delicious Oat Waffles

I love waffles, and it took me a while to come up with a recipe that is healthy and delicious.  I use olive oil instead of butter and I use oat flour mixed with white flour instead of just white. The waffles come out crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, the whole… Continue reading Healthy Delicious Oat Waffles

Healthy Lunch On the Go

We usually have a very busy schedule.  I start our day by dropping off my oldest daughter to pre-K at 8am, then I come home, do some school work with my three year old (learning ABC, doing puzzles, learning beginning math).  Then I do laundry, cook lunch or dinner while my daughter plays.  At 11:30am… Continue reading Healthy Lunch On the Go

Home Made Chicken Nuggets

My children love chicken nuggets, but I  refuse to feed them the store bought chicken nuggets, that have more ingredients than letters in the alphabet.  I make them chicken nuggets myself and they love them. Prep time 10 minutes Cooking time 20 minutes Ingredients: 2 Chicken breast or 4 thighs 2 Egg 1/2 cup flour… Continue reading Home Made Chicken Nuggets

Frozen Ice Cream Cake Tutorial

For my daughter’s Frozen Birthday Party I made her a Frozen Ice Cream Cake. I was doing  a great job capturing every step of making it, until it came the last part.  I was putting the cake together during the birthday party, so I forgot to take the pictures, but I hope the detailed description… Continue reading Frozen Ice Cream Cake Tutorial

Easy Veggie Pancakes

Prep time 20 minutes Cooking time 20 minutes Total cooking time 40 minutes Ingredients: 6 Potatoes 1 onion 1 large zucchini 2 eggs 1/4 cup flour Salt and pepper to taste 2 tbs Olive oil Peel and shredd potatoes, zuccini and onion in a food processor or by hands. Add eggs, salt , pepper. Mix… Continue reading Easy Veggie Pancakes

Easy Pumpkin Soup

Easy Pumpkin Soup To finish up my pumpkin cooking project, I would like to share one of my girls’ favorites Dairy and Gluten Free Pumpkin Soup. There are many different variations of a Pumpkin Soup, but my kids love the simplest and the healthiest dairy and gluten-free version. Prep time 15 minutes, cooking time 30… Continue reading Easy Pumpkin Soup

Easy cooking project for a preschooler

Nutella Frozen Yogourt Sandwich Ove of the first cooking projects I have done with my kids was Nutella Frozen Yogurt Sandwich.  It is easy to make, fun and yummy.  You will need: Vanilla Yogurt Nutella (for a healthier choice: banana or strawberry) Gram Crackers First, have your preschooler spread Nutella on Gram Crackers Then, put… Continue reading Easy cooking project for a preschooler

Pumpkin cooking project with kids, Fresh Pumpkin Muffins

Fresh Pumpkin Oat Muffins “Mommy, can we please cook something today!” Were the first words that came of out my three year old this morning.  “Of course, my dear!” I said ” We still have that pumpkin that we took all the seeds out another day.  Let’s make Pumpkin Muffins!” I have an old recipe that… Continue reading Pumpkin cooking project with kids, Fresh Pumpkin Muffins