By Jill McDonough There are so many reasons why you need to teach your kids to cook. It’s a very important life skill, it helps kids appreciate the work their parents do, it expands kids’ palates, making meals boosts their confidence, cooking reinforces math and even chemistry, understanding a recipe improves reading comprehension, different cultures can be enjoyed, and more! One of jobs as moms is to prepare our kids for the real world and to live on their own. I want my kids to thrive in the real world. This will require me to make sure my kids will make more than spaghetti and ramen when they’re on their…
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Best Banana Bread Ever
By Jill McDonough If your homeschool day was bananas, then it’s time to make the best banana bread ever! I call this a “breakfast recipe”, but you can eat it any time. Let me confess…I like to call a lot of foods “breakfast foods” so that I can eat them as soon as I get up. Read: the day after Thanksgiving I can justify apple pie and pumpkin pie as “breakfast foods”! So, I’ll let you decide when you should eat this recipe. No judgment here. Alright, back to this recipe… What I LOVE about this best banana bread ever is that it uses very little oil and uses applesauce…
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Baked Haddock – Easiest Fish Recipe Ever
By Jill McDonough What if I told you this is the easiest fish recipe (besides broiling) that you’ll ever find. And it’s delicious and healthy! We all know that we should eat more fish, but most fish recipes are…well…too fishy! Or too hard to make. Trust me…this is an easy recipe your kids can make. I LOVE feeding my family fish for many reasons. Fish is healthy easy to chew doesn’t require cutting into tiny bits delicious Now, this recipe is the most basic recipe, but still yummy. This was the exact recipe I grew up on. However, you can make a lot of changes to this easy recipe to…
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Chicken Cashew – A Recipe Kids Can Make
Cashew Chicken is one of my easy recipes that the kids can make. It is so very necessary to have those go-to easy, healthy meals that my kids can make on a busy day. Yes, you read that right. A recipe my kids can make. One of our family’s traditions is to order tons of Chinese food on New Year’s Eve. We liked Chicken Cashew so much that we just had to find a way to create it at home. And bonus! Making it at home is healthier and less expensive. Win win! If you like some “kick” to your meals and your kids can handle it, a 1/4 –…
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Death by Chocolate Cake
By Jill McDonough This is a simple “dump cake” that never disappoints. After a long day of homeschooling, this easy cake, that your kids can mix up, is a decadent way to end the day. I once brought this cake to my future in-laws’ house for someone’s birthday. I heard, “You didn’t finish it.” (Because I didn’t put any frosting on it.) Well, this is one cake that does not need the sweetness of frosting. It is just perfect right out of the bundt pan. And by the way, after they had one bite, no one mentioned frosting ever again! I only had requests for the recipe. However, if you…
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Hot Dogs & Baked Beans
By Jill McDonough Baked beans are super easy to make on the stove top and they make the house smell cozy. Is cozy a smell? Well, anyways, I love food that slowly cooks and gets you excited for lunch. Your kids can practice measuring with this recipe and then let the stove do the rest of the work. I’m not a fan of having hot dogs all the time, but there are fairly healthy ones to feed your family. I feel that the baked beans make up it!
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Spinach Nuggets
These nuggets get a lot of cheers when I make them for lunch with some french fries.
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Blueberry French Toast
I LOVE living where we have four seasons. Fall and winter are my absolute favorite seasons because of recipes like this one that give you a warm hug in the morning. This is my “go to recipe” when we have overnight guests. This recipe involves a little bit of work the night before, but it is SO worth it the next morning!
