junior kitchen

At our house summer is all about the popsicles. These chai tea ones were kitchen daughter’s idea. On our recent summer trip she discovered the food network. Since we have no television at home the kids soak up all they can when we stay in hotel rooms or visit friends and family with cable tv. [...]

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Where does the time go? I’ve been a bit neglectful about blogging favorite recipes around here and as a result I have a growing pile of papers cluttering up our kitchen counter. For our holiday cookies this year I found a great recipe here at Foodo del Mundo. Pfeffernusse. We’ve had to make extra batches. [...]

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While not usually a proponent of vegetable shortening over butter when baking, sometimes you just gotta go with what you have. Plus during these current financial times, I really feel like a 40′s frugal housewife. This recipe is from the WWII-era when butter and sugar were rationed. I did modify it slightly by using a [...]

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The junior kitchen family went camping in Kentucky recently and we had the ultimate camp food dessert: S’mores. This tried and true recipe that Kitchen Mom fondly remembered from Girl Scout camping trips was a new treat for the kids, and Kitchen Dad, who claims to be the expert camper but somehow survived four decades [...]

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These delicious Mini Pavlovas were a heck of a lot of fun to make. They seem so polite, don’t they? So refined. So sophisticated. That’s all an illusion. These are entertainment. Not as in entertaining the guests who come over to sip tea and nibble on meringues, but as in a thing to do that [...]

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The nice thing about having kids in the kitchen is sometimes they can be extremely thoughtful in planning a special treat for you when you’re feeling under the weather. This dish Daughter planned all by herself – she called it a cake, but this was even better. She asked Kitchen Dad to pick up the [...]

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These delicious cookies are from Martha Stewart’s Cookies. Our beneficent domestic majesty originally called these “Banana-Walnut Chocolate-Chunk Cookies,” but we were out of nuts so this is the walnut-less version… and I also used chocolate chips instead of chopping my own chocolate. Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon salt [...]

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The kids and I were looking for something special to celebrate Kitchen Dad’s birthday and stumbled across this recipe.  The photographs were so beautiful, I just knew the cake would be special too. And it was! I tweaked it a bit to accommodate for ingredients I didn’t have, like caster sugar (superfine sugar, but not [...]

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Making sorbet is easy. All you need is some kind of fruit, sugar, water, and a little bit of lime juice. And in summer – at least in our house – having something sweet, refreshing and ice cold is an absolute necessity. We recently made two kinds of sorbet at the same time – a [...]

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This is an easy, delicious dessert dish that hearkens back to Dad’s British colonial roots. It has one ingredient that Americans might find exotic: Lyle’s Golden Syrup. This is a difficult thing to substitute (though you can try) – it’s made from the sugar refining process like molasses, has the same consistency as corn syrup [...]

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