Category: Recipes

These recipes will help you simplify your time in the kitchen with healthy food that you and your family can enjoy. Cooking can also be a great time to spend together as a family.

Sweet Zucchini Relish Recipe

I have a neighbor that lives across the street that is in her “golden” years.  She is so sweet to us and sits next to our family at church each Sunday to help with our 3 children.  The other day she brought us by a yummy yummy treat.  I shared a tiny bit with my …

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Breakfast Ideas for Kids: GFDF Strawberry Rhubarb Basil & Apple Crisp

This recipe is adapted from Stephmodo. I follow her blog and when she posted this recipe, I had rhubarb and lots and lots of basil growing in my garden, so I wanted to give it a try.  I’m always looking for breakfast ideas for kids because I want to get away from the boxed cereal …

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Gluten Free Bread Machine & Recipe

This awesome Gluten Free bread machine is a well-used appliance in our kitchen. We’ve had it for a couple years now and  it has been worth it’s weight in gold since we use at least a loaf of bread each week. When we buy gluten free bread at the local health food store, it generally …

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Fathers Day Brunch

  For our annual Fathers Day Brunch this year, my kids and I made something a little different.  I am not a morning person.  In fact, I despise getting up out of my warm bed!  But on Fathers Day, I make an exception since I’m married to such a fabulous guy. Usually I get up …

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Breakfast Ideas – Raspberry Yogurt Parfaits

Breakfast ideas aren’t always easy to come by at our house.  I’m  not really a morning person, so I’m pretty much in slow motion in the morning.  The kids generally eat oatmeal or boxed cereal for breakfast and I usually have a smoothie, an egg, or a piece of toast after I’ve had a chance …

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Cooking with Kids – Episode 4 – How to Make GFDF Fruit Sandwiches

In this 4th episode of Cooking With Kids, we’re making gluten free and dairy free fruit sandwiches (like grilled cheese). Two of us are GFDF in our house, and 2 aren’t and since my GF daughter doesn’t like raisins, I bought “normal” gluteny bread for the other family members and made separate GFDF sandwiches for …

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Cooking with Kids – Episode 3 – How to Make a Cupcake Tower

On Episode 3 of Cooking With Kids, we made a birthday cupcake tower fit for a princess.  We used 2 cake mixes (however in retrospect we could have made one large round layer and 12 cupcakes out of 1 cake mix).  We froze what we made the night before and then decorated the finished product …

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Cooking with Kids – Episode 2 – How to Make GFDF “Pie” Cupcakes

COOKING WITH KIDS – Episode 2 On Episode 2 of Cooking with Kids, we had fun making these “April Fools” cupcakes from the What’s New Cupcake cookbook together!  We modified it to be gluten and dairy free to accommodate our family’s allergies.  They still tasted very good and we didn’t miss the gluten at all! …

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Smoothie Recipes for Kids – Berry Bliss

Smoothie recipes for kids are the best because not only do the kids enjoy them, the parents do too!  We served this smoothie when company came over and it was a big hit.  It only took a few minutes to make and everyone wanted seconds.  We used fresh berries in this drink, but you could …

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