Valentine food gifts: heart egg video tutorial

Fried Heart egg for Valentine, video tutorial (5 minutes)

Material:
- Egg
- Oil
- Heart-shaped mold

Fried Heart egg for Valentine, video tutorial (5 minutes)

Step 1:
- Heat the oil


Step 2:
- Place the mold on the pan and break the eggs into the mold, how the egg yolks in the middle of the heart-shaped.

Step 3:
- When the egg is almost cooked then remove the surplus eggs outside the mold and pick up the mold.


Now you can decor for  the plate ...




Valentine food gifts: heart egg video tutorial

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Halloween lunches for kids: Dracula Sandwich and Dracula Pancakes!

Dracula Lunch

This is another fun Halloween lunch that we made for New Jersey Family Magazine that is now out in the October issue.

Dracula Sandwich and Dracula Pancakes! 

 

2 slices of white bread
Peanut butter and jelly
A handful of raisins
1 mini marshmallow
About 15 dark grapes, cut in half
Cut bread in a circle and make a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich. Attach raisins with
peanut butter to make hair, eyes, eyebrows,
and mouth. Cut marshmallow in half diagonally
for teeth; add grapes to look like a cape.

Bat tortilla chips

Preheat oven to 350°. Cut tortillas into bat shapes with bat cookie cutters. Place tortilla shapes on a cookie sheet and spray with cooking spray. Flip them over and spray the other side. Bake about 10 minutes, turning after 5 minutes, then sprinkle with kosher salt.

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Food gifts for women: The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities and ideas

Food gifts for women: The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities and ideas

Looking for some The Very Hungry Caterpillar activities and ideas to add in lots of fun and learning? Here are some of our favourite ways to use one of our all time favourite story books.

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Crafts for kids: Halloween fruit

I signed up to bring fruit to the Halloween party at school on Friday.

Crafts for kids: Halloween fruit

Thought I'd at least make the fruit cute.


Luckily I'm volunteering at the party so I guess I'll volunteer myself to peel all these little suckers.

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Food gifts: Making Funny Food Faces

 

Making Funny Food Faces

When we got home yesterday afternoon from the school pick-up, my boys announced they had the hungrys and that they wanted to do something fun; maybe get the art supplies out. I remembered something I saw on Playschool years ago. Making funny face open sandwiches! Combining an afternoon snack and play all in one. This had the added bonus of upping their vegetable intake for the day….this is something I am slightly obsessive about. I grate, puree and hide extra vegetables in our meals all the time, anything to up the amount they eat.
To Make Funny Food Faces:

• Spread your bread generously with cream cheese or you could try peanut butter
• Have a selection of foods cut into different shapes, we used alfalfa sprouts, carrots, cherry tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber
• Let your kids make away!

There was lots of snacking on the vegetables on the platter as they made the faces and some very interesting creations were made.

The general consensus was that funny faces are delicious and lots of fun! Check out the empty platter at the end, I was surprised by how much of the veggies they ate, even my Mr almost 4 ate heaps.

Do you get your kids to play with food?

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Unique food gifts: How to make an edamame stick

Unique food gifts: How to make an edamame stick 

This one is may not really be “kyaraben” food by itself, but it’s a great way to add green to your bento box.

This technique lets you put edamame together in one place without using a little cup. All you need is uncooked pasta! You can put it in the corner of bento box like in the Piggy & Gir bento, or use it as a divider like in myPortal bento.

Pasta gets soft enough to eat because the moisture from edamame in a couple of hours or when microwaved. But if you’re not sure about eating uncooked pasta, you can fry the pasta.

[edamame stick] (used in “Piggy & GIR”, “Portal” )
- edamame
- pasta

1. After boiling edamame, pop the beans out of the pods and peel the outer skin of the edamame.

2. Stick the soybeans on the uncooked pasta one by one.

Snap off the pasta on the both sides and done!

That’s it!

3. If you put #2 in a bowl of water and microwave it for a couple of minutes, the edamame stick becomes soft and bendy! Maybe you can use this as a necklace for a girl character food or have it surround other food. (be careful when you bend it. If the pasta isn’t soft enough, it might break off.)

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Halloween food gift: Who's for Dinner?

Who's for Dinner?

 

It's that time of year...time for spooky food! First, let me clarify that I know some of you probably don't want to see anything about Halloween and I wouldn't say we necessarily "celebrate" Halloween but I have always amused my children with these creations during October. We don't make anything really gross or evil, just ideas I have found over the years that are cute and silly. We make most of these every year and the kids still get a kick out of them, kinda a family tradition now!

First are the three mummy meals, the English muffin pizza mummies, the hot dog mummies which are hot dogs wrapped in strips of refrigerator breadsticks and baked, and a new addition...the meat loaf mummy. This is meatloaf shaped like a mummy and then covered with strips of American cheese and returned to the oven to let the cheese melt a little bit.

A fan favorite to make is the vegetable skeleton.

A taco salad gets spook-a-fied with sour cream and black olive eyes.

This is a new find, swamp creatures made out of mac-n-cheese baked in muffin tins and sitting on cooked spinach. (will they eat the spinach??)

And finally, the grand finale, the slitherin' Stromboli! It is pizza sauce, pepperoni and cheese rolled up inside pizza dough and baked in an "s" shape. So cute and yummy too!

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Gift presents for women: How to make a fruit platter

 

 

How to make a fruit platter

 

It's spring, which means the beginning of backyard barbeque's and pot lucks. One of my favorite go to's is this fruit platter.

It looks super complicated and professionally done but it is really quite easy. This fruit platter was something I made from things on hand for my daughter's birthday breakfast.

You start with a pineapple. Make sure the top is nice looking since you will be using that.

And get a nice large platter out.

 

Place the pineapple on it's side and cut down the middle all the way through the pineapple

including the top

It should look like this

Now cut your half into quarters

not forgetting to cut the top of the pineapple as well

In this next step, you are preparing to get the fruit out of the rind. Make a cut from the bottom and then carefully cut around the bottom getting the fruit free from the rind.

It should look like this. The rind is on the right, the fruit is on the left in my hand. Then with your fruit in hand, cut out the core.

I then place my fruit back into the rind and cut slices down throughout the pineapple.

Do this with all four of your pineapple quarters and then place them on your platter.

I then usually take the pineapple slices and fancy them up a bit. This leaves room for other fruit to sit in the rind. Think blueberries, grapes, kiwi or cherries.

Strawberries are almost always a part of the platter. I love the contrasting colors. During the summer, I put watermelon around as well.

I add other fruit to fill in some of the spaces.

And there you have it! A beautiful fruit platter for your next gathering.

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