
School has started, autumn is just around the corner. For me that means lots of cinnamon, apples, pumpkins…. So it may still be in the 90s here today, but I can’t let weather alone dictate my food seasons! Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Food Blogging with Children
There will be no recipe this post. No pretty pictures. Why….well because I have three boys who are extremely ornery!
The other day I made cranberry pumpkin cream cheese muffins. The previous time I made them I slightly over baked them. This time I tweaked the recipe and was happy with the results.
I let each of the boys have a muffin for a snack after school. I had one too. I was going to photograph them later.
The kids had other plans…..Sean emptied his top dresser drawer upstairs. Pajamas, socks and underwear all over! I went up to clean the mess, he is useless at putting it away properly.
I went downstairs to find Jack and Ewan on the floor under the dining room table….eating muffins! Not only were they eating muffins I needed to photograph, they were getting crumbs all over a floor I mopped that morning! I caught them just after they started the muffins….to find out they already each shoveled one in their mouths!!!
So for snack that day they had the muffin I gave them, a cheese stick, applesauce, an apple and nearly two more muffins.
I hope to post the recipe soon, if I make them and photograph them while the boys are in school!
Here is the evidence….what is left from their second stolen muffins. If I wasn’t so upset with them I would have gotten a picture of them huddled under the table eating like animals!
Black Bean and Pineapple Quinoa

I am a fan of quinoa, the rest of my family not so much. I tried coming up with ways to fix it so that the kiddos wouldn’t complain much. The way to their hearts, or stomachs as the case may be, is definitely fruit. I already planned on using some black beans I made earlier with peppers from the garden and decided pineapple was the way to go. Continue reading


