Creativity with Food

Because I spend more time in the kitchen these days, my two vivacious, curious, energetic little girls are always begging to help.  I only have enough counterspace – about the size of a large cutting board – to do much work on, so we don’t get to do much creatively together in the kitchen.

However, my youngest, Georgie, has the biggest flair for creativity as you will see soon enough…

This is Chocolate Pudding.

This is Georgie…

And this is Georgie and her chocolate fingerpaint pudding…

When she’s a famous artist one day, I will have this framed for her so she can keep her feet grounded!!!  I can be thankful it wasn’t Desitin (which is something my brother got to clean up with both of his girls…)

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How to be a Vegetable Pusher

We probably scrape more vegetables into the sink or throw more vegetables into the trash than anything else. It’s hard to get kids to eat them, and let’s face it; it’s hard to get most adults to eat them too.

The fact is, though, that vegetables are good for us, so as cooks we need to find a way to get people to eat them. Adults are usually glad to eat vegetables if you dress them up pretty enough, but kids aren’t so easily won over. They’ll eye you suspiciously if you even look like you’re going to approach them with something that even slightly resembles a vegetable.

The trick is to make the vegetables an ingredient in something that they like. Surround the veggies with yummy things and they might not notice them!

Here are two recipes that should help you with your vegetable offense strategy. Read more