This is it in 7 crucial minutes. Is there something you do to ensure that the food you want is in your future? Every tidbit you offer is taking us towards a nourishing, healthful future. Namaste.
Simple Chicken Pot Pie
Every month, I luxuriate in the two magazines that I have delivered to my home. One is UTNE Reader for my dose of alternative media and the other is my absolute fav at the moment, Bon Appetit. I always find at least one recipe that I go ahead and make. As you might already know, … Continue reading »
Currying Favour
What the hell is with the expression, ‘currying favour’. (Someone knows where the expression came from anyway). They are not going to eat fricken curry I told myself. This is torture for a foodie like me. I didn’t have the illusion liberty of trying to shape their palates with they were womb-bound by eating squid, … Continue reading »
Winter Fair: Saturday, December 8, 2012
Reblogged from London Waldorf School: A beautiful event open to all!
School Lunches – Strawberries
Presentation is everything. I admit I’m having trouble letting the girls make their own lunches. Their lunches are MY creative time. I LIKE looking into an almost empty fridge and seeing what awesomeness I can produce. I LIKE being in control of what they eat. I LIKE them to have a miniature piece of … Continue reading »
Wordless Wednesday: Pomegranate Slushie
Simply extending the summer with a perfect after-school treat.
School Lunches – Opting In
I gave up a piece of my momma-worries-about-everything-we-eat control thing the other day and let the girls make their own lunches. I figured they really cant go wrong when there is nothing in the house that I wouldn’t put in their lunches anyway. Here’s the thing. They are begging for me to let them make their … Continue reading »
Tomato Mozzarella Salad & The Moment I’ve Been Working Towards
She did it. Actually, they both did. Unprompted, they willingly took some tomato mozzarella salad from the communal bowl on the dinner table. It’s exactly what I’ve been working towards. Without even knowing it really. For more than a year. I honestly hadn’t even formed the thought that she might do it so it was … Continue reading »
The Base Layer
You can’t go out in a Canadian winter without a proper base layer. One that absorbs the sweat, swass & discourages the static brought on by well-meaning fleece outer layers. Do you get what I’m saying? I’ll elaborate. We’ve live here as a family for one full year now. Enter a cliché. Our family has learned … Continue reading »
Cooking with Kids – Our Insanity, Digitally Captured
Sometimes you just have to throw up your hands and hand it over to the miniature people. An old drama class game put to good use. Keeping it real here Chez MacKenzie.