Posts Tagged by Kids Food
PB Marshmallow Squares
Lunch Snacks, After School Snacks.. just snacks! PB Brown Rice Squares punch some protein into the traditional treats! more
Cream Cheese Pun’kin Cake
With Harvest here and pumpkin pie on every thanksgiving table across the country, I decided to put Betty Crocker to the test and make a harvest cake. Did it turn out? Oh lord yes! more
Love Me a Good Party…
I am a sucker for any excuse to GO BIG! Any excuse to set the table up in a theme and kick some color into, what can be, a grey mundane day. So when I set out to keep Tha Baby’s birthday simple I didn’t factor in my own nature! So… it’s Simple-er !
Inventory
- Helium Tank and 30 balloons
- bag of more balloons
- ribbon
- paper plates
- plastic cutlery
- Plastic Glasses
- Mini Ice Cream Scoop
Gifts ( one from each family member, plus errr maybe a couple more little things! Yay for back to school time and doing double duty!)
And the food? Here is the:
Afternoon’s Menu
- Chocolate Cupcakes
- Vanilla frosted cupcakes
- Vanilla Ice Cream
- WHEATY Confetti Frosted Cupcakes ( for the multitude of NOT GF guests)
- Evil KoolAid
Supper Menu? The Potluck contribution will be fresh raw veggies and two Roast Beefs, on peppercorn encrusted and one BBQ seasoning rubbed.
That is keeping it simple for me! LOL
K.I.S.S. Seven!
K.I.S.S. sounds like a great motto for this 7 year old’s party! Who knows. I might just be able to just SIT enjoy the festivities myself. *GASP! I know! Scary isn’t it. more
How do you keep kids … Fed!
Three boys - ages 14, 10 and 6 – and sometimes mealtimes are a challenge. Ok, considering the audience I don’t think I needed to say that. Anyone who has to elliminate such a key ingredient from their menu as Wheat/Gluten KNOWS that you can’t just whip out hamburgers or baked lasagnia. So what are some of the staple meals that I default to naturally?
Baked Chicken Breasts with GF Cornflake coating. Salad.
Beef Stirfry with peppers. Steamed white rice.
Tacos with Corn shells and browned hamburger
Kabobs with romane lettuce wraps
Gluten Free Spaghetti and Meat Balls. Ceasar Salad. Garlic Toast.
That is just a few off the top of my head.
While the thought of cooking Gluten Free is intimidating, knowledge, a plan and a deep breath makes it all quite livable.
Finally!… Strangely…
Is Strangely even a word? My instinct is to type it Strangle-y but that might be just because it’s summer and the kids are out!
CHEX! Yes. I have been hearing on the chatter that CHEX is and has been Gluten free for years and, like Duncan Hines, ONLY available in the states. You can IMAGINE my inner ( maybe outter) SQUEE when I walked into a store and, there it was! Gleaming like a Golden Saint from a Catholic Dias. I swear I heard the Heavenly Host!
I GRABBED up two boxes of each before I even looked at the prices… before I even thought to pull out my camera and slam it up on facebook! I did correct that though, on the fly!
What makes this a strange find? The Location! It wasn’t a health food store, a Safeway or Grocery ( by their true definition) . No, it was ( don’t think less of me) Walmart! in WILLIAM’S LAKE?!
Regardless, I bought it. Paid the approx $5 a piece for 4 boxes and brought home my stash of golden sugary GLUTEN FREE carb cubes. My children love me and I am suddenly eager for good old fashioned Nuts and Bolts. Ahhhhhh…. sodium licks!
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Carnie Fare
Stampede Days, Rodeo Weekends and with all of them comes THA MIDWAY! Twisty turny paths of screams and jostling children crammed full of adults with their heads turned up mesmerized by the riotous gyrations of metal caged buckets on steel frames. The excitement is high and the pack mentality surges though the yards. While all this excitement is what draws some people to the over crowded theatrical presentation, to others it is the FOOD.
Corndogs, salt water taffy, Stampede Burgers and deep fried Coke. In the wholistic perspective you can’t really call it food but Mid Way Fare is what draws those who are no longer interested in the rides. Deep fried, salted and sinfully sweet mouthfuls of eternally-bad-for-you AWESOMENESS.
Gluten Free Hell? Damn Close!
It and Christmas are when I get to pining over the gluten free losses. I LOVE Corndogs and French Fries over soaked in Gravy. The smells take me back … righhhtttt… back to the time I are one of the Midway double cheese burgers with fried onions right before stepping into the caged ZIPPER. * Covers Mouth Quickly* Yup. Should have listened to my mother!
Today my Teen is heading down to the Midway with cash in hand and excitement sparkles in his eyes. The first year in the pack without a parental unit in sight. Sighs. He does his best as a teen to stay gluten free yet not be a lepper in his crowd. I give him coodos for that. Today will be a challenge. I am dropping him off and Tha Baby and I will take a walk around. I plan on scoping out the eateries and seeing what Gluten Free options MIGHT exist there!
Watch tomorrow for the scoop… or Twitter today!
He got Learnded
That is our new term. It’s like Edjamacated but it’s Learnded.
Dman seems to struggle with the whole pancake recipe following thing.
Yes, he is 14. Yes he is literate. Still, there is something about the measurements that turn invisible behind the numbers. Primarily with baking powder and baking soda.
We have all made, at least once in our life, THOSE cookies. The ones that even the dog won’t eat where, instead of 2 tsps, we add in 2 cups of baking soda. When you do that with a pancake mix, though, it converts it from a nummy breakfast covered in syrup and butter into a volcano science experiment. The first time this occurred for Dman was out camping. The zip lock pouch of premixed recipe turned into three foaming pot fulls of billowing batter. Today he learned and trusted his instincts. The liquids never hit the volatile bowl of over stacked baking soda batter.
Breakfast eventually got served with sprinkles of chocolate chips melting under golden syrup and pads of real butter but the true success was the laughter that emerged from my teenager. It is so easy to slam ourselves at the first sign of failure but the goal is to turn it around into a learning experience and fodder for success.
Cooking is an Art.
That means sometimes things turn into something we didn’t envision but it’s all an art. Gluten Free “Art” is even more challenging as we blend flours and learn new techniques but the successes are all the more sweeter!
The big breakfast is coming soon and I am training up the next spatula manager! Passing on the Flipper! Have faith though, practice will make perfect! The rewards? Goldenly Delicious!
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