Category: Kids in the Kitchen

Festival of Food Carnival: Child Tested Recipes


It’s Festival of Food time, and I’ve decided to share our Frozen Yoghurt recipe with you over on my new Keeper of the Kitchen blog.

End Of The Box Fun Food Pasta


Have you ever opened your store cupboard to find that each pasta container has too little pasta left to make up a meal?

Easy Peasy Meringues Recipe


We did some baking together recently for the first time in ages. This not-very-healthy, but yummy and super fun for little people recipe is great for engagement in the kitchen!

Lazy Sunday Buckwheat Pancake (Flapjack/Crumpet) Recipe


Easy Egg And Salmon Muffin Tin Breakfast Recipe


Nothing sets you up for a busy day like a good breakfast. An occasional cooked breakfast is always a treat around here, and one the children can help with all the more!

Festival Of Food: Tricks For Treats


Welcome to the Festival of Food Carnival. In celebration of autumn and Halloween, we’re sharing recipe ideas for healthy treats, or anything you would enjoy this time of year. Hosted by Diary of a First Child and Hybrid Rasta Mama, you’re welcome to join us next time, or if you have a previously published recipe…

“Chocolate” Date Ball Snack


We’re huge chocolate fans around here, to the extent that I’m sometimes a little worried about it, because it’s just not that good for us.  I found some organic, vegan, good for you chocolate bars in our local health food shop, and nice as they are, I don’t think my bank balance can handle a…

Ice Cream For Breakfast Or Desert


My daughter, Ameli, like most toddlers, loves ice cream. I don’t want to deny her the fun things in life, but I certainly don’t think she has any lack of sugar intake. I came across this recipe for frozen banana ice cream a couple of months ago, and it’s been a regular staple in our…

Pick Your Own And Eat It


Welcome to the August 2012 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Farmer’s Markets

Little Cooks – Amazing Apple (Or Berry) Cake


Issue 4 of the Little Cooks Dora the Explorer magazines brings us the Amazing Apple Cake. Unfortunately, by the time I got to actually making the cake, the black spot on my apple had turned into a gaping big hole inside. I didn’t stick around to find that worm. Instead, I found a half a cup…


Issue 4 of the Little Cooks Dora the Explorer magazines brings us the Amazing Apple Cake. Unfortunately, by the time I got to actually making the cake, the black spot on my apple had turned into a gaping big hole inside. I didn’t stick around to find that worm. Instead, I found a half a cup of frozen berries in the freezer, and topped them up to a full cup with boiling water. The result was a delicious, moist berry cake that didn’t last the day – we gobbled it up in one sitting! (more…)