Do your kids absolutely love and will try every kind of vegetable imaginable? Congratulations! You have weird kids. My kids are not huge vegetable fans. They like corn, peas, and carrots — you know: the three basics. Beyond that, it’s an uphill battle to try to get them to eat other veggies. Enter the Alien [...]
I hadn’t made biscuits in a long time, but today my son is home sick. The poor kid has a high fever and is so lethargic. It’s impossible for me to concentrate on work even in short spurts while my child is ill, so I took the day off from work projects and snuggled my [...]
More than the idea that lack of money is holding people back from fresh, healthier foods, I believe it’s actually the lack of time that does us in. Even with my family’s crazy schedule, we try to have a homemade dinner together at the table every single night. It doesn’t always happen, and that’s ok, [...]
Full disclosure up front: I love food. But, the FTC folks probably care more about this disclosure: the fine folks at Reser’s Fine Foods sent me some of the products used in this blog post. Wasn’t that nice of them? Go give them some Twitter and Facebook love & tell them @designmama sent you As [...]
Fact: donuts are not hard to make. If you take a little shortcut, they are even easier than baking cookies! You don’t even need a deep fryer – just a wooden cutting board, rolling pin, slotted spoon, plates and hungry tummies. Here’s an insanely easy homemade donut recipe: 1 can pizza dough (yeah that’s right: [...]