junior kitchen

This fig-blueberry combo is a delightful bread for a weekend breakfast or delicious snack any time of day. Made in the flatbread style of traditional Italian focaccia, children will be happy adding the ingredients into the dough and rolling it out into a free-form pizza shape. This recipe calls for dried mission figs because they [...]

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Mmmm, hot warm biscuits! There’s nothing better than pulling apart a biscuit and smearing it with butter. I have several recipe cards and even a book for making a variety of different kinds of biscuits. It’s one thing I remember learning to cook from my grandmother when we would visit her in Mississippi. This recipe is pretty [...]

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As the summer growing season comes to an end – we’re getting in as much local watermelon eating as possible. I tried carving one in a fancy shape this year like you can see here but that was a dismal failure – so I’ve looked for other ways to liven up our watermelon habit. There’s [...]

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This recipe made an otherwise uninspired weekend morning a little more exciting. Ingredients: 4 eggs 2 red potatoes – sliced 1/2 cup cheddar cheese – shredded 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 small yellow onion – chopped salt and pepper to taste Preheat the broiler. Boil the potatoes to soften them up and then sliced them. [...]

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Over the years I have tried various recipes for zucchini bread because… 1. Kitchen Daughter loves to shred things in the food processor 2. Kitchen Son loves to eat it. This recipe from the smitten kitchen appears to be this season’s winner. Ingredients: 3 eggs 1 cup olive or vegetable oil 1 3/4 cups sugar [...]

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Continuing my girl crush on Nigella this recipe comes from her Nigella Kitchen Ingredients: 1 egg 2/3 cup all-purpose flour salt, to taste 1 cup whole milk butter for greasing 1 cup grated cheese a large handful of greens (we used a mixture of spinach, arugula, and basil) To Make: Grease a 9 or 10 [...]

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Can I just say Nigella Lawson rocks! Over the weekend we tried several recipes from her Feast cookbook and boy did we have a good time. Saturday night we delighted a group of friends with her Chocolate Guinness Cake and Sunday morning tired and bleary eyed we staggered out to the kitchen and whipped up [...]

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Oh. My. Goodness! Don’t be intimidated if you’re not a cottage cheese fan. These pancakes are freakin’ good. I found the recipe in this Feed Your Skin book and the kids gobbled them up. They don’t need better skin; they just like good pancakes. We didn’t have the blueberries for the fruit syrup (so much [...]

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I found a recipe for making granola with olive oil instead of ordinary vegetable oil in the NY Times. I cut out the recipe and hung it on the fridge where it’s been staring me in the face for several months. This weekend, we decided to go ahead and make our own version. Success is [...]

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