It’s the first Friday in Advent, which means that it’s time to trim the tree!! Tonight, we’ll be getting out the Favourite Photo Ornaments, along with the tree, the lights, and all the other baubles. We’ll order fish and chips, turn on some favourite holiday movies, and eat a few of the Chocolate-Dipped Macaroons we made […]
I’m not sure about you, but I’m pretty glad October is behind us. The speed at which it passed, however, wowza! November looks no less busy…So, I’m looking for ways to slow down this month. After all, I’m in the process of prepping this year’s daily Advent Calendar posts [look for those right here on November 27th!] […]
We’ve had quite an indulgent week so far. Today’s space party is going to include some healthy snacks! We’ve got four amazing kid-friendly smoothies and juices that you can serve at your once-in-a-millenium inter-galactic pow-wow or at breakfast, lunch, and dinner all year long! For the smoothies, you will need a good blender or food processor. […]
Make Ahead Monday Hot Chocolate Bombs and Microwaveable Mitten Warmers It’s been COOOOLLLD this winter. Today, we’re making “bombs” to toss into a glass of warm milk to make hot chocolate as well as these awesome patterned microwaveable hand warmers to keep our fingers cozy in a storm. Both are great for stocking stuffers and hostess or holiday […]
Festive Friday! It’s time for our Annual Tree Trimming Party! Tonight, we have grandparents in from out of town, so we get to trim our tree with them! Yippee!!! It’s time to…. Roast Chestnuts! Sing Carols! Drink Cocoa or Cider with Cinnamon Whiskey! Make Favourite Photo Ornaments! Watch The Holly and The Ivy and A Christmas […]
The other day, I was in my favourite coffee shop [at last! it’s been a while!], and I overheard some women talking about Pumpkin Hummus. This set my heart a whirl. But, then, I realized, our pumpkins had all been carved and set aside for bird feeders and compost. Still, still, we had one very fresh and […]
This kids were at it again today, making their own Mediterranean lunch! Today was a day for simplicity. Bea put a healthy twist on her favourite Greek resto dish, fries with feta. She baked her spuds! Toby made Basic Hummus for dipping carrots and pepper strips! Once again, they proved that it tastes better when […]
Halloween is coming! Here are 12 of our best Halloween and Halloween-Friendly Posts and a bonus 13th contribution from our Sister Site! Just click on the image and be transported!!! SNACKS: 1. Quick & Easy Mummy Cookies A Halloween Themed Lunchbox Treat! We make sugar cookies with our ginger-people cutters and ice them to look like mummies! […]
Thanksgiving is coming! Here are 9 of our best Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving-Friendly Posts and a bonus 10th contribution from our Sister Site! Just click on the image and be transported!!! Whisky Fig Cranberry Sauce: Break out the Whisky & Cider. Here’ s our original recipe for a cinnamon, whisky, and fig filled Cranberry Sauce […]
We’re starting our Friday Night Holiday Film Festival with a rather unusual double feature: Gremlins and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Neither of these movies are particularly “good.” But, after a long week of school, the kids are bound to enjoy a good giggle and squeal. We’re going to try to limit their “sweets” intake tonight […]
I tend to post all of our family recipes on this site so as to have an easy way to access them and to send them to others for reference. Pumpkin seeds are no exception. I can’t tell you how many times we “forget the way we did it last year” when it comes to […]
Welcome back to The Lunchbox Season! | We’re looking forward to another school year full of family fun, featuring art projects, writing workshops, math craziness, canning bliss, advent calendar and march break olympics, and recipes galore. Here’s a “weekly treat” to get things rolling. For the first full week of school, I sought to improve […]
This weekend,we found ourselves with two very large bunches of Kale. Having already prepared a very large drawer full of salad greens, we thought that the best idea would be to make kale chips for the pantry. Since we had so much kale on our hands, we were able to mess around and come up […]
To go with the Snake Detective Mystery I wrote for the kids to illustrate, The Adventures of Sir Lochrann Holmes: A Study in Emerald, (we’re on chapters Chapters 4&5), we made Necktie Bean-bag Snakes today! We also had a fantastic snakey lunch, complete with home baked salt and vinegar chips, snakewiches, and shakes…you’ll find that on the bottom of […]
We just couldn’t begin The Lunchbox Season without an experiment in the kitchen! Welcome to FRUIT LEATHER 101! I try to put something homemade into our school lunches each week. Over the long weekend, I looked into the possibility of making oven-dried “fruit leather,” that is, the natural, low sugar, corn-syrup-free version of the prepackaged […]
