There are so few perfect food pairings in the world as delicious as bread and butter, cheese and crackers and spaghetti and meatballs. But, one of the most sublime food pairings would have to be peanut butter and chocolate.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so it makes sense that we should give our kids a balanced, nutritious meal, right? However, I admit, there are days I take the easy route in the mornings, and my children eat Cheerios for breakfast. I tell myself it’s okay because it’s multigrain and eaten…
I am constantly searching for ways to incorporate more fruit and vegetables into my children’s diets. Looking at what I had available in my refrigerator one weekend, I was inspired to create these carrot-apple muffins. I was a little worried that the carrot might be too strong (and be detected by my boys), but fortunately, they…
I have always made my own spaghetti sauce because, lets face it, spaghetti sauce is pretty easy to make and difficult to screw up. You throw some cans of organic diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, olive oil, ground beef and seasoning and it tastes like a culinary treat. A couple of years ago my sister told…
The beauty of cooking and baking is that occasionally, you get lucky, and create something divine purely by accident. I was trying out a snickerdoodle muffin recipe that I stumbled across on Pinterest, and realized that I was missing several key ingredients. At this point, I was already emotionally invested in eating a snickerdoodle muffin,…
This week’s Foodie Friday was contributed by my mom Sally Traub, an excellent cook who has spent many years teaching her grandchildren how to cook. ~ Megan Imagine growing up in a household in the 50’s and 60’s with a British mother who hated cooking. That is a recipe, so to speak, for disaster. While…
Six years ago, I nearly killed my sister. With a carrot muffin. It was our first attempt at baking a muffin. We followed the recipe word for word, measurement for measurement. The batter didn’t look quite right (“Is it supposed to look like…. cookie batter?”), but we pushed on.