Pizza is one of my favorite ways to eat veggies that are difficult for me to eat by themselves. I love adding mushrooms (one food I am still learning to like), black olives (that I love but often forget about), and red bell pepper. All three of these foods are power houses of nutrients, and…
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Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce
If you’re like me, about March you’re ready for some summer produce! Here is the perfect tomato sauce for the height of tomato season (late summer) when tomatoes are cheap, flavorful, and plentiful. Make sure a grown up does the grating of the tomato, unless you have a rotary grater or food mill like we…
Classic French Carrot Salad
This carrot salad is everywhere in France. You can find carottes râpées at cafes, supermarkets, and little bistros. It goes with almost anything, but especially roast chicken or rice. I love that I can make a batch at the beginning of the week, and it just seems to get better as the week goes on….
Brilliant Blue Pasta with Cream Sauce
Every time I test this pasta, I go to take a taste, and end up eating the entire bowl right there over the counter. It is shockingly good. There is something about super fresh, hand made pasta dough covered in incredibly rich cream sauce that is irresistible to me. If you have a pasta attachment…
Pesto
If you’ve only ever had pesto from a jar, you’re in for a treat. The brightness that comes from fresh basil and freshly toasted pine nuts is incomparable to the stuff you buy on the shelf in your local grocery store. Throw this sauce on your favorite shape of pasta, into a big pot of…
Easy Strawberry Shortcakes
This shortcake recipe takes my super easy 2-ingredient biscuit and adds a little sugar and lemon zest to perk them up. We macerate the strawberries to pull out their juice and make the whole mess syrupy. Let that sit and get juicy while you bake up some fluffy, crispy biscuits, and then get ready for…
Fruit and Yogurt Parfait
This isn’t really as much of a recipe as it is a reminder that fruit and yogurt parfaits are perfection. It’s full of fat if you use full fat yogurt (which I recommend as it’s especially important for kids and teens), calcium, probiotics, fiber from the granola and fruit, vitamin C from the fruit, and…
Sparkling Orange Sunshine Drink
We don’t keep many drinks in the house for kids. They mostly get water and milk. Occasionally we will have juice or leftover pouch drinks if we’ve had a backyard party recently. Every now and then I like to make a festive drink for them. This one is so fresh and easy, that even my…
Citrus Shrimp Tacos
Growing up on the Gulf Coast made shrimp a familiar protein for me, but I find that is not the case for many of my students that grew up in Colorado. These sweet-glazed shrimp tacos are an easy way to introduce a somewhat unfamiliar food. The orange flavor can help with the strong flavor shrimp…
Skillet Elote
This side dish has the street corn flavors we love so much, but it is 100 x easier for kids to help with and comes together in 15 minutes or less. I love making it to top grain bowls and salad for the week, and it is the perfect thing to bring to a summer…
Pineapple Whip
A bright frozen treat that could not be easier for kiddos to help with. It is basically a really thick smoothie that you can eat like the freshest sorbet ever. Try it with full fat coconut milk for a pina colada vibe. Serve in an ice cream cone for extra festiveness. Some whipped coconut cream…
Lemon Ricotta Ravioli with Sage Butter Sauce
Homemade pasta is one of those things that intimidated me for a long time. Now I know it just takes practice and couldn’t be more simple. Once you get the hang of making the dough, the world is your oyster! You can change the shape, the sauce, or in the case of ravioli, the filling….
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