“Muuuum… will you make pancakes for breakfast in the morning??” There was so much hope in their little twinkly eyes, that I wavered for a moment, and then I crushed it. “Nope.” On a school morning I get four kids up, cleaned, dressed, fed, packed and to school by 8:45. On many weekend mornings I […]
Crazy Lump Cookies
It’s become a bit of a school holiday tradition – when Dad is on night shift, we hire some DVDs, make some crazy over the top, snack and settle in for a night of movie watching together. The last few movie nights we’ve made crazy gooey cookie bars, but these holidays we made something new. […]
Kids Can Cook – Chocolate Mug Pudding
“Could we have dessert?” She asked gingerly. Dessert is not an every night thing in our house. It is not even a sometimes thing. It is more of a ‘whenever I get the urge to make something sweet kinda thing’ and that is not all that often. On this particular night I barely had the […]
A Quick Biscuit Recipe Round-up.
The start of another school week and another round of school and kinder (preschool) lunches and snacks to be made. I try hard not to buy too many pre-made snacks and treats for school lunches. I’m no snack saint, I have a stash of sweet biscuits for those days when I just can’t be bothered, […]
Reasons Why I Cook with my Kids
I had been promising my big boy that we could make ginger bread cookies with his new dragon and bunny cookie cutters ever since we got them. But I’ve been putting it off. I already spend enough time in the kitchen, I didn’t need to spend more time in there and have more mess to […]
Cooking Confidence – Apple Spice Cakes.
I’ve never thought of myself as a good cook. Even a just a couple of years ago I still said how much I disliked cooking. Cooking didn’t come easily to me, and even when my meals came mostly out of a box or jar, I still found the whole caper difficult and frustrating. Having kids […]
Rhubarb Fizz
Rhubarb is one of the things seems to grow really well at the Pickle Farm with little or no input from us. Even the recent flooding which left the entire veggie garden was under 20 cms of water and killed everything else didn’t deter the rhubarb. We are always on the look out for new […]