Grilled Green Onions It’s not May and I’m already bored with the usual cast of grilling characters. In the WellDone household, we do the usual suspects on the grill: chicken breasts, steaks, flank steaks, carrots, onions, and peppers. Sometimes we even do tomatoes to make a nice fire roasted salsa. But me, I want something more. […]
Month: April 2010
Sustainable Eating #6: Good Shepherd Heritage Chicken
2010 Continues! A lot of exciting things are supposed to happen this year. If Arthur C. Clarke is right, this is the year that Jupiter will turn into a sun thanks to Roy Schneider. We’re 2 years away from the Mayan (Aztec?) apocalypse. Yep, this is an exciting time to be alive! In all seriousness, while […]
Jasper’s KC’s Limoncello Experience
Limoncello [n]- Italian for awesome. No seriously, look it up. That’s why you gotta go to Jasper Mirabile’s Limoncello Experience What is limoncello you ask? I already told you! It’s awesome. It’s also something like the greatest lemonade in the world with some pretty darn good (and very, very strong) liquor swirled in. It’s a […]
Cooking With Your Kids: What’s the Big Deal?
Why Cook With Your Kids Over the past six days, we’ve looked at several different recipes which are kid friendly, both in how they taste and (mostly) in how they are prepared. At the very least, the recipes were reasonably healthy and there were at least a few steps that younger children could do under […]
Cooking With Your Kids: The Sushi Chef’s Noodles
I can’t believe I haven’t shared my recipe for The Sushi Chef’s Noodles Seriously, this is one of my son’s absolute favorite dishes in the world. What is it? It’s the noodles we get when we go to “sushi.” Which to the rest of the world is usually called “Japanese steakhouse,” but in my […]
#MeatlessMonday and Cooking With Your Kids: Apple, Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
Happy #MeatlessMonday! Today we’re talking about Cooking with Your Kids and making Apple, Banana, and Peanut Butter Sandwiches Yes, this recipe is very simple, but it’s important to know that there are fun, meatless alternatives we can give our kids that aren’t fried or full of sugar. Sure, some peanut butters are little more than […]
Cooking With Your Kids: Healthy Fried Rice
BWD, Jr. loves his rice, so let’s talk about Healthy Fried Rice I know, there’s something about “fried rice” that means it can’t be healthy, right? It has the word fried in it, so it has to bad. Listen,I know I’ve seen fried rice made where it in no way resembled a health food. It was dripping […]
Cooking With Your Kids: Homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs
Homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs So as coincidence would have it, tonight my son wanted to make homemade spaghetti and meatballs. Never one to turn the boy down, I thawed out some hamburger, found the flour, and we started cooking. As a meal to make with your kids, spaghetti and meatballs is pretty good. Most kids […]
Cooking With Your Kids: Purple Cabbage Slaw
Ready for something a little daring, try Purple Cabbage Slaw (Note: purple cabbage = red cabbage, but at home we call it purple cabbage.) Okay, as a “kid dish” this slaw is a bit of a risk. First and foremost, it’s a slaw. That means lots of vegetables and in the case of this slaw, there’s […]
Cooking With Your Kids: Macaroni and Cheese with Tuna Fish
Point of order. Yes, I skipped a night last night. My fault. But I’m back and blogging away, this time with Macaroni and Cheese with Tuna Fish Let me start off by saying that I despise this dish. Yeah, I know, I should keep it positive, but seriously, bleck. And I mean bleck from the […]