Making homemade microwave popcorn couldn’t be easier — and it’s ONLY popcorn, butter and salt, without any of the extras you get with microwave popcorn from the store. Fresh, crunchy and full of fiber, come on! We eat homemade microwave popcorn after school, for family movie night and it’s also perfect to fill out school…
How to make no-knead bread
This is the easiest — and most delicious — recipe! If you want to know how to make no-knead bread, you’re in the right place. WHat you need to make no-knead bread all-purpose flour yeast sugar salt time Here’s how to make it. recipe: Variations This bread is so good with added ingredients too! I’ve…
Creamy Lemon Pasta Primavera
The secret of this creamy lemon pasta primavera is simple: roast the vegetables in the oven first. You won’t regret the extra flavor, not one bit. Plus, if your kids are used to eating roasted vegetables, that’s a flavor ladder you can use to introduce them to something slightly new. All the familiar characters are…
10 Easy Pasta Recipes Kids Love
With four kids and a busy weekly schedule, our routine now includes the cutest meal prep ever: #PhoebeSavesTheDay. My twelve-year-old makes pasta every Thursday. Easy pasta. Delicious pasta. These are the easy pasta recipes our whole family loves. Brown Butter Pasta with Sage This one-ingredient topping takes three to five minutes to make, but don’t…
Roasted Broccoli Pasta
When I tell you that my kids love roasted broccoli pasta, you won’t believe that the main ingredient is…broccoli. There’s roasted broccoli, as you see here, but what you can’t make out so well is the roasted broccoli that’s also pureed into a sauce. Double broccoli. And now for the part that’ll leave you shocked:…
Cherry Tomato Candy Pasta
Move over homemade mac & cheese. This cherry tomato candy pasta is my kids’ new favorite pasta! We learned the recipe from Samin Nosrat (who wrote the excellent cookbook “Salt, Fat, Heat, Acid“) when she made it on the adorable Netflix kids’ show Waffles + Mochi. The secret is: roasting the tomatoes first. When you…
One-Pot Cheesy Sausage Rigatoni
One-pot sausage rigatoni means you don’t have to cook the pasta separately. It’s literally only one pot. Pasta, plus sauce all together. If that’s not a busy parent’s dream, I don’t know what is. Unless it’s a crowd-pleasing dinner every loves, like this one. What You Need to Make One-Pot Cheesy Sausage Rigatoni sausage (we…
Jamie Oliver’s Cheese Cauliflower Pasta: A Recipe Makeover
We did a quick recipe makeover on Jamie Oliver’s Cheese Cauliflower Pasta and the results are delicious. Nutrition: I used whole-wheat bread instead of sourdough. It was the ends of a loaf I already hand in the pantry. I love using all the food we have instead of buying something else. Also in this case,…
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…
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…
One-Pot Pasta with Sausage & Spinach
When it’s time for a super easy, totally delicious pasta dish that only takes one pot, this is your new go to! This one-pot pasta with sausage and spinach is a busy parent’s dream: easy to make, nutritious enough and everybody loves it. Four thumbs up from the kids! We’ve been getting this gorgeous sausage…
Vegetarian Pasta Bake: Creamy Mushroom, Butternut Squash & Spinach
I saw a recipe for a DELICIOUS looking mushroom lasagna the other day but, oh the layers. Who has time to produce all those layers? So I gave it the Foodlets treatment (easier, healthier and therefore more kid/parent friendly)…and yum. This vegetarian pasta bake–loaded with creamy mushrooms (which happen to be awesome for you!), butternut…
Easy Focaccia Bread with Garlic & Rosemary
Well, the kids and I are obsessed. I’ve made this easy focaccia bread studded with fresh garlic and rosemary every day for the last three days (plus several more batches last week)–and no one is complaining. That’s because focaccia bread with garlic and rosemary is basically heaven in your hand. Soft and fluffy with JUST…
Easy Shrimp Pasta
This easy shrimp pasta comes together in 15 minutes! All you need is pasta, large shrimp, a handful of cherry tomatoes, garlic and butter. Toss on a few herbs and dinner is served in less time than it takes for Wendy Williams to dish out the Hot Topics. Plus, our easy shrimp pasta got a…
One-Pot Instant Pot Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
This is the one-pot spaghetti that my kids can’t stop asking for — and it’s made in the Instant Pot! I’ve made this Instant Pot Spaghetti four times in the last month. Four. Everyone loved it every single time. What I love about one-pot Instant Pot Spaghetti It’s easy. If you’re new to Instant Pot…
Easy Homemade Bread Recipe (Kids Can Make It!)
Is there a homemade bread recipe so easy that kids can make it? You bet. “MMM! That’s SO GOOD!” That’s what my nine-year-old said when she took a bite of this homemade bread. And guess who baked this homemade bread? She did! It’s from my first cookbook for kids, “Super Simple Baking for Kids“. I…
Chicken and Bell Pepper Pasta Bake
There’s nothing I like more than a yummy dinner that can be made from the leftovers of ANOTHER yummy dinner. Cook once, eat twice, cheer, relax and repeat. Tonight’s dinner started with our awesome lemon chicken earlier in the week. This time I cooked it on the grill but you could certainly throw your chicken…
Best-Ever Taco Bake: The Taco Casserole Makeover (with Fresh Veggies) Kids Love
There’s only one thing better than a one-pot meal full of fresh ingredients: A one-pot meal that everyone LOVES. That’s this easy taco bake. A four-thumbs-up hit. Our fresh taco bake takes a classic dish and gives it the Foodlets treatment: making it healthier, simpler and as kid-friendly as ever. What’s special about our best-ever…
Country Carbonara with Bacon
You know my rule about posting recipes here. At least three out of my four children have to give it a thumbs up. But… Sometimes I have to make an exception. Because sometimes those crazy kids just don’t know. I’ve made this carbonara for a dozen adults now and every single one of them LOVED…