Cooking With Arowyn: Hawaiian Pizza

Arowyn has been wanting to get her hands dirty in the kitchen with mommy so for dinner today she fixed us a Hawaiian Pizza with breadsticks. No this wasn't completely from scratch but we were to hungry to take the time to make the dough ourselves so canned dough it was. Not that it matters though because Arowyn had a great time doing it and she's already learned way more about cooking than I knew at her age.

Cooking With Teagan: Chocolate Chip Cookies

We're getting ready for Christmas today with doing a little holiday baking. Teagan made a batch of chocolate chip cookies which turned out delicious although one tray of them were slightly over done to the point where they are not burned but they were a tad crunchy. Today was one of our busy days so it took us awhile to get this all done which is the reason for the outfit changes because a couple of times we had to stop where we were to run out to ballet and then later on Cub Scouts and by the time they were all baked it was bed time.

Cooking With Teagan: Breakfast Tarts

We’ve been working on our cooking skills around here recently and by we I don’t mean just the kids but I myself am as well. I’ve always been very bad about choosing very simple and easy recipes so to push myself and teach the kids some cooking skills I’m letting them pick a recipe out of one of our cookbooks every other week and whatever they pick (as long as I understand or can easily google the cooking terms used in the recipe) we will attempt it. Teagan’s pick this week was to make some breakfast tarts. Fortunately it was slightly involved but very simple to follow and we only ran into one slight issue while making them, that of not having a small circular cookie cutter for cutting the circle in the front of the tart. After looking around the house we decided to try using the top of a Crayola marker as a cookie cutter which ended up working out perfectly. The tarts turned out great and Teagan was pretty proud of his creation. In the video Teagan walks you through his process of making the breakfast tarts. Oh and when he says Strawberry Jello he meant to say Strawberry Jam.