I’ll be making these easy cranberry scones with whole oats on repeat this season. 4 updates that make these easy cranberry scones easier (and healthier!) They’re full of whole oats. Fiber rich, good-for-you whole oats to keep growing bodies full for longer. I use my Kitchenaide standing mixer to incorporate the butter. For me, it’s…
Potato Galette Recipe with Feta, Corn & Dill
For a luxurious lunch or a hearty vegetarian dinner along side a salad, my kids LOVE this potato galette recipe. With whole-wheat flour, chick peas for protein and tons of potassium-rich potatoes, it’s a healthy meal. Add all that butter, sweet corn and creamy feta and you’ve got a treat. Here’s how I make our…
How to Make Easy Beef Stew: A Simple Recipe that Cuts Cooking Time in Half
Today we’re talking about how to make easy beef stew faster than you ever thought possible. Do you know that traditional beef stew is a two and a half hour ordeal? Not here! We pack our easy beef stew with tons of veggies — cabbage, peas, carrots, even mushrooms — and do it…
Easy Dinner Rolls: Soft and Buttery, Ready in 30 Minutes
These easy dinner rolls are like pillows. I make them as often as possible with this simple recipe from my book, Super Simple Baking for Kids. how to make easy dinner rolls These easy dinner rolls are best eaten on the same day but can be stored in an airtight container for up to three…
Healthy Halloween Treats for Kids
Looking for healthy Halloween treats for kids? From whole-wheat croutons to deviled eggs topped with olive spiders, here are our simplest, spookiest ways to celebrate! Jack-0-Lantern Fruit Cups Nothing but fruit (and smiles) here! Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Cookies with Whole Oats All the best flavors of fall packed into one little healthy treat for breakfast. …
Super Moist Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting
These incredibly moist chocolate cupcakes are my daughter Estelle’s favorite recipe from my newest book, “Cupcake Cookbook for Kids“. We made them for her ninth birthday, then again, and again. The tender cupcakes are so perfect when topped with this subtle and not-too-sweet peanut butter frosting but you can add any type of frosting you…
Simple Summer Favorites for Families: Easy Summer Recipes Kids Love
With four kids at home all day, every day, just ALLLL the time, I’ve come to depend on a handful of simple but fresh recipes that I’m basically cooking on repeat. These are the easy summer recipes kids love: Kale with Bacon & Cranberries: You KNOW kale is good for your kids but… This is…
Easy Granola Recipe
Homemade granola is crunchy, lightly sweet without adding too much sugar or added stabilizers like the kind you find at the store. This easy granola recipe is fresh and delicious! Especially with homemade yogurt. What makes this granola recipe easy? I updated one of my favorite granola recipes to make it: easier and more friendly…
Creamy Dreamy Orange Cupcake Recipe
This orange cupcake recipe is so sweet and creamy, giving Hostess Orange Cupcakes a run for their money. Straight out of my book, “Cupcake Cookbook for Kids“, this cupcake recipe includes a 2-ingredient filling you’ll fall in love with. Best of all, they’re simple enough to make with kids. Really! How to make this orange…
easy red velvet cupcakes
These easy red velvet cupcakes are fresh from the pages of my new book, Cupcake Cookbook for Kids! I’m so excited to share all the fun (and still doable) ideas in this book, starting with the silkiest red velvet cupcakes you’ll ever have. And bonus: they’re so easy your kids can make them. I love…
Healthy Waffle Recipe
Can a recipe for waffles be healthy? Confession: When my six-year-old showed up at my bed asking for waffles this morning, I groaned. Waffles are a pain to make and the recipe is not very healthy…until now! At Foodlets, my mission is creating new versions of favorite family foods. That’s how we’ll raise kids who…
How to Make Yogurt in Your Instant Pot (SO EASY!)
I never knew how easy it was to make homemade yogurt in my Instant Pot. And ever since I’ve figured out all that you only need two ingredients — milk and yogurt — I’ve been making a batch of yogurt every week. No added sugar. Just gorgeous homemade yogurt everyone loves, all from your Instant…
Chocolate Steel Cut Oats Recipe
My kids call this Chocolate Steel Cut Oats recipe “porridge”. As in, “Can we make the porridge again today?”. Everyday. My two biggest girls mastered the super simple technique and made their own batch of Chocolate Steel Cut Oats today. Those brilliant ladies even doubled it so they’d have enough to enjoy leftovers for snack….
Rice Pudding with Sweetened Condensed Milk
Can you make rice pudding with sweetened condensed milk? You certainly can! We’ve recently discovered the joy of chocolate rice pudding (starting with leftover but perfectly cooked brown rice) but dare I say it, I love this sweetened condensed milk rice pudding AT LEAST as much. Maybe more. Because you only need 3 ingredients. And…
How to Make Perfect Brown Rice (You’ll Be Surprised, I Promise!)
How do you make perfect brown rice? I certainly couldn’t have told you a few weeks ago. Because I’ve always been TERRIBLE at making rice. It seems simple right? Well, not for me! My rice is usually lumpy or burned or mushy or crunchy. And sometimes, if the Gods are trying to really do a…
Easy Salisbury Steak Meatballs
How do you feed a whole family with one pound of ground beef? Try our Easy Salisbury Steak Meatballs! This simplified recipe is already a favorite with my kids. We serve our Easy Salisbury Steak Meatballs over brown rice but you could certainly use egg noodles or any kind of pasta. What Makes these Salisbury…
12 Dinners with 5 Ingredients or Less…that Kids Love
Sometimes dinner just needs to be easy. Because most parents (including myself) find it tough to make dinner every single night. That’s why I love having a stable of dinners with 5 ingredients or less on hand. Not counting salt and pepper, these are a dozen delicious dinners with five ingredients or less, that all…
Simple Chocolate Rice Pudding (Starting with Leftover Rice)
Did you know you can make a simple chocolate rice pudding from leftover rice? Well, you can. And it’s so good that your kids will want to eat it for breakfast. And that will be fine because this simple chocolate rice pudding is basically brown rice and milk with a bonus egg–and it all starts…
Easy Cupcake Ideas: Chocolate Coconut Bird Nests
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best and that’s true for our series of Easy Cupcake Ideas, including Chocolate Coconut Bird Nest Cupcakes! These cupcakes can be made with a variety of pantry staples but this is my favorite method. What you need to make chocolate coconut bird nests Cupcakes (from a mix or try…
Easy Cupcake Ideas: Little Lambs
Here comes a new series just in time for birthday season and it’s called…easy cupcake ideas! To start off, we’ve got little lambs. The fun of easy cupcake ideas is that they’re adorable AND doable, even when kids want to help. You can count on every idea here being one that you can easily source…