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Category Archives: Vegetables
A most delicious salad with Roasted Home Grown Cherry Tomatoes – isn’t summer great?
We have an abundance of tomatoes – too much really. Take a look. The baby tomatoes were for the salad for which I have the recipe below – and the large ones were for the tomato soup ( also described … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Starters, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged Cherry Tomatoes, cooking with kids, Feta, garlic, grandma cooking, olive oil, onions, ricotta, roasted tomatoes, salad, shallots
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Fresh Vegetables and Children- Grow and Pick and they will eat them!
At the Little Farm there are always fresh vegetables to pick and eat. Our four grandsons love fresh lettuce, cilantro, herbs of all kinds – but only in the vegetable patch. When we put them on a plate – their … Continue reading
Fish in Banana leaves – easy fast and delicious!
Max’s Baked Fish in Banana Leaf Max Arteaga has worked for us at The Little Farm for 34 years – amazing to imagine that – here he is above on the left, with Clive and our eldest grandsons Jack ( … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Fish, Little farm products, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Salad, Vegetables
Tagged Banana Leaves, cooking with kids, easy fast dishes, family, Fish
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Homemade Spinach Artichoke Dip – with sun dried tomatoes! Easy when cooking with kids!
I love dips. I could just eat them with a spoon and forget the chips – are you like that? YUM! But often they are so chock full of calories that they go directly to my hips ! So here … Continue reading
Chicken Pot Pie with a difference – not the white sauce kind, but the tomato sauce kind!
I love pastry of all kinds – and this is an easy way to make a pot pie. I do not like the creamy white sauce that goes with most pot pies – so this one uses a rich darker … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Poultry, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Soups, Vegetables
Tagged Chicken pot pie, mixed vegetables, onion, Tomato Soup
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Using corn in soup -yummy! Cooking with kids and comfort food
Using corn – fresh is great but canned or frozen corn can work in soup too. This creamy corn soup is good all year round. Corn and flax growing at the Little Farm in the summer – bring on summer! … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Soups, Vegetables
Tagged chicken breast, cooking with kids, Corn soup, green onions, soup
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Spending time with family – focus on the positive! A family bonding recipe – fast and easy
All families have their challenges – it is so important to focus on the positive – you can only be upset if you choose to be – and although sometimes family gatherings tend to trigger old hurts, there is always something … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Meat, Pasta, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Soups, Vegetables
Tagged beef, cilantro, cooking with kids, family bonding, family togetherness, herbs, lamb, meat, soup, turmeric
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Sweet potatoes with Butter and Pecans – Cooking with kids!
I love sweet potatoes. A lot. And this recipe is a favorite at holiday times – it is not low calorie but can be made with less calories if using fat free milk. Give it a try and let me … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Vegetables
Tagged cooking with kids, favorite recipes, Grandma, pecans, sweet potatoes, vegetables
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Are you tired of turkey yet? Here is a different way to cook it – could almost be veal ( almost)
By this time of year I am getting tired of turkey. So I found this way to cook them. Ok so who are we fooling? This is not veal – but it is low in calories and quite tasty. Give … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Poultry, Recipes, Rice, Vegetables
Tagged apples, carrots, chicken broth, cooking with kids, parsnips, shiitake mushrooms, turkey breast, Turkey cutlets
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Chicken Yams and Ratatouille – Cooking with kids and a good year-round dish
I love this dish – because it keeps for days – although you won’t have much left since it is particularly yummy! You can use exactly the same amount of each vegetable if that is easier for you – I … Continue reading
Homemade Tomato Soup – Yummy when Cooking with Kids!
Simple Fast Recipe for Tomato Soup Ingredients: Two onions chopped medium Two cloves of chopped garlic Better than Bouillon chicken stock – one tsp for 8oz of hot water – make up about 4 – 6 cups ( use Vegetable … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Soups, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged comfort food, cooking with kids, Tomato Soup
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Leftover Dinner Wraps – great when cooking with kids or for fast easy meals
Leftovers can make the most creative ( and easiest) meals. We always seem to have some chicken left over from whatever we make for dinner. And I have goat cheese galore in my home – you probably keep some in … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Gluten Free, Poultry, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Salad, Snacks, Vegetables
Tagged chicken, cooking with kids, leftovers, low fat mayo, pickles, sun dried tomatoes, tomatoes, Wraps
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Favorite Easiest Recipes when cooking with kids – Breaded Chicken Cutlets
Kids LOVE my breaded chicken. I made some the other day and they ate and ate and ate! And my husband loved it too. It was fast and easy and so good that you could serve it for a … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Poultry, Recipes to Make with Children, Rice, Vegetables
Tagged Breaded Chicken Cutlets, broccoli, cooking with kids, Easy recipes, Fast recipes, Kale
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Camp Grandma – what my grandkids call our Little Farm – how I love that! Broiled Broccoli and Kale too!
We try to make our Little Farm the most wonderful place for kids – especially our grandkids and their friends. Certainly there are lots of jobs to do here – picking up the eggs from the quails ( 30 of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Fruit, Jams, Little farm products, Other wonderful treats, Poultry, Raising Children, Salad, Vegetables
Tagged Camp Grandma, cooking with kids, family, fruit, grandkids, Little farm, urban farming, vegetables
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Cherry Tomatoes – the most delicious – they taste like candy! And a couple of recipes to use them
We love Cherry tomatoes – and the kids love them too. They taste like candy! There are so many ways to use them – here are a few: 1. On top of baby arugula with a lemon/olive oil/garlic dressing as an … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Fish, Recipes, Salad, Starters, Vegetables
Tagged avocado, Cherry Tomatoes, cooking with kids, recipes, salmon, vegetables, vegetarian
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Peppers, onions, zucchini or squash, tomatoes, bread crumbs and gruyere make a super one dish meal – easy when cooking with kids too
Do you remember the post on August 12th when I described how to add chicken pieces to a delicious vegetable mixture? http://rockingrandmamusic.com/fast-way-to-make-chicken-cook-up-veggies-when-they-are-in-season-freeze-then-add-chicken-pieces-in-a-skillet-for-a-quick-midweek-meal-cooking-with-kids Here is another variation on that recipe. To the veggie mixture instead of the chicken, add 1/2 cup 2% reduced-fat … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged bread crumbs, cooking with kids, Gruyere cheese, one dish meals, panko, peppers, summer squash, tomatoes, zucchini
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Fast way to make chicken – cook up veggies when they are in season, freeze, then add chicken pieces in a skillet for a quick midweek meal! Cooking with kids!
We have SOOOO many peppers, onions, tomatoes, zucchini and garlic in the farm right now that I am overwhelmed. So I fry it all up with salt ( sometimes Lawry’s seasoned salt) and olive oil (garlic in the heated oil … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Poultry, Vegetables
Tagged basil, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, cooking with kids, garlic, herbs, mid week meal, olive oil, onions, oregano, quick meal, tomatoes, vegetables, zucchini
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A great side dish – mashed squash and sweet potato – cooking with kids – especially little ones!
Roast a whole squash ( any kind – butternut is our favorite) in the oven for 1 hour in a roasting pan. Put two sweet potatoes next to the squash ( poke a few holes in them to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Vegetables
Tagged Butternut squash, cooking with kids, family time, sweet potatoes
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Try cooking with kids to engage them in healthy eating and family time – Artichokes are yummy!
Have you ever eaten an artichoke? Its fun! And children ( once they get the hang of it) love it!. They are easy to cook too. Just submerge them partially in about 2 inches of water in a pot, and … Continue reading
Omelets – I never really liked them – but the kids do! And they are pretty easy to make – give them a try!
Omelets can be tricky. Some folks love them. My husband is one of them. I personally could live without them. Using only egg whites is a great way of getting the protein without the fat – lower in calories and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Poultry, Recipes to Make with Children, Starters, Vegetables, Vegetarian Mains
Tagged children, cooking with kids, eggs, jams, Omelets, scrambled eggs
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