Slow Cooker Chiapas-Style Mexican Pork If I was stranded on a desert island and could only bring one cooking tool with me, it would be my slow cooker. (Don’t read too much into that sentence since if I was on a desert island, I could fashion a grill from native trees and rocks and probably…
Okay, so a little while back I released some recipes for Cooking With Your Kids, but as my friend Marc tells me, if you are going to cook with your kids, you are going to need some stuff from SproutGear Of course, he owns SproutGear.com, a cool little kids’ boutique, so he’s not really the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Okay, so for the next seven days I’m going to be posting on Cooking With Your Kids. Seven recipes that you and your children will like. (Oh, and don’t tell them, but I’m going to try and make them healthy as well as fun.) To get thing started, I thought I’d call in a ringer:…