Michael Makes Magnificent Munchable Melts

My youngest son is an idea man and a planner. I benefit from this nearly every day. Last night, while I was rattling around the kitchen, trying to figure out what to make for dinner, he offered to come up with a plan. Naturally I took him up on it and the result was a [...]

Amazing Potato Pasta Salad

My son Michael narrowed his eyes and scowled with concentration. He was standing in front of the open refrigerator, trying to help me figure out dinner on the hottest day of June. “Mom, is there any reason we couldn’t put those leftover red potatoes in a pasta salad?”
I thought for a moment and couldn’t come [...]

Pizza Margherita

Night #2 of our Five Nights of Pizza experiment: Pizza Margherita.
This pizza takes us to the next stop in pizza history. Well, almost the next stop.

Olympus Honey Bread

Here is our ancient Greek sweet pizza, which we made from the sweet ingredients we didn’t feel we could include on our dinner pizza on the first stop in pizza history.

Pizza Alexander

Pizza Blogging: A family research project

We have started an annual tradition in our homeschooling house: the Annual Family Research Project, held each May after we have completed all our academic work for the year. The boys and I sit down and brainstorm a list of possible topics, then select one of them, and research it together. Last [...]

Ham Calzones

Wanna know what’s cooking in Laura’s kitchen tonight? (In Minnesota, where we are getting what I HOPE will be the last blizzard of the season–supposed to be up to 9″ of white by morning!) We are making Ham Calzones. (”Calzone” is the Italian word for pants, and these little inside out pizzas are [...]

Can we count pumpkin pie as a vegetable?

Why yes, I think we can. And we all know that vegetables are good for us.
This morning, I caught my smallest son redhanded in the kitchen, eating pumpkin pie for breakfast. He immediately assured me that this is Thanksgiving WEEK…thus making a pumpkin pie breakfast perfectly appropriate.
Barb

FAST and easy individual pizzas

Here’s a quick tip for those last-minute dinner panics. We were experimenting last week with a kids’ recipe book version of non-yeast pizza dough. We had made our batch of dough, and discovered that it wasn’t going to be enough. So we needed a fast alternative–with not even a morsel of bread anywhere in the [...]

Vegetarian Hot and Sour Soup–with a little help from a friend

This afternoon, a wonderful young man named Jordan called me to get the inside scoop on our becoming-famous homemade pizza. Jordan is a friend of my boys and a really sharp, talented kid. I directed him to the pizza recipes.
About 20 minutes later, I received an email from Jordan, offering an excellent addition to this [...]