Gummy Bears Make Boys Eat Veggies
Posted on July 13, 2010 - Filed Under Food, Fun, Kids, Simple Life | 7 Comments
Well, they do if your kids have never had gummy bears before.
Irving came across this cute video the other day.
There are a bunch of them that turn pop songs into gummy songs, but this one is really fun. The boys were enamored.
Soooo … I took full advantage and this was their lunch for [...]
Drool!
Posted on June 22, 2010 - Filed Under Food | 9 Comments
I’m trying to lose weight so I look semi-decent when I head up to Canada in a couple of months, but these came up on the menu at a restaurant I visited with friends the other day and I couldn’t help but try reproducing them at home . . . and they turned out [...]
San Pedro Las Huertas Refuge
Posted on June 1, 2010 - Filed Under Food, Guatemala | 3 Comments
We went to San Pedro’s shelter today and discovered that many of the families that had spent the past three nights there had moved in with friends and neighbors. They still need help and are very low on resources, but many people wanted to get back to their homes and start digging them out.
The guy [...]
Rogue Tomatoes
Posted on April 21, 2010 - Filed Under Food, Simple Life | 4 Comments
I recently noticed something behind my tins of oregano plants . . .
That’s a tomato plant tucked in there and a big one at that! It has about a dozen tiny tomatoes on it, plus more flowers. Here are the two biggest tomatoes. (Dante picked the other one before I could tell him we [...]
Dorian Cooks
Posted on March 16, 2010 - Filed Under Food, Fun, Kids, Simple Life | 8 Comments
Back before Dorian made his way into this world, when I was pregnant with one of his brothers, I made a list of things I wanted my kids to know by the time they left home. I had a long list of skills, with cooking at the top of it. Since he was born, I’ve [...]
Adventures in Cheesemaking
Posted on March 14, 2010 - Filed Under Food, Simple Life | 11 Comments
Cheese in Guatemala is expensive, particularly the aged stuff. You can get fresh cheese pretty cheap, but nothing of quality. So, yesterday and today, I’ve been trying my hand at cheesemaking, mozzarella, in particular. Here’s how you can make your own, if you’re interested. I followed the recipe here.
I started with 4 liters of [...]
Making Bread
Posted on January 26, 2010 - Filed Under Food, Simple Life | 13 Comments
Lately I’ve been really going off on tangents, so this post is to bring it all back down to life right here in this house.
Over the past month or so, I’ve been trying to do a few more basics around here . . . simple living, if you will. I’m not at all [...]
A New Family Favorite
Posted on January 5, 2010 - Filed Under Food | 1 Comment
I’ve been cooking a lot the past while, to build up recipes for Gourmet Mama and also to start working on some cookbooks that I’ve had bopping around in my head for a while. Truthfully, there are a lot of things going on in my head and I rarely focus enough to actually do anything [...]
Baking Christmas Cookies
Posted on December 22, 2009 - Filed Under Food, Fun, Kids | 14 Comments
It’s been rather hectic around here the past couple of days, but we’ve managed to fit in time for Christmas cookies!
The truly awesome thing about making cookies with my kids? We’re using the EXACT SAME cookie cutters that I used as a little girl, making cookies with my mom. She sent them down earlier this [...]
The Birthday Boy
Posted on December 15, 2009 - Filed Under Food, Fun, Kids | 5 Comments
Dorian turned 4 yesterday and he had a blast! His cake was a racetrack one, at his request. I was crunching some serious deadlines, so I ended up decorating the cake at 3 am the morning of his birthday. It has a few flaws, but he loved it!
The boys anxiously awaited the cake, which was [...]
