I enjoy cooking for my family. Like most of us, I prefer recipes that
are fast and easy. Fortunately, I am surrounded by people who
appreciate my effort, my recipes and seem to sincerely like the meals placed
before them.
I readily admit that I play in the kitchen. I play with recipes by
changing the ingredients to suit my families tastes. I play with
cupcakes, cookies, desserts, etc, because I enjoy decorating the food.
I mess around with it until I get the desired effect.
I also enjoy the company of other family members in the kitchen. So much
so, that I consider us playing in the kitchen. Since I began writing
articles online, I have been periodically sharing highlights of our kitchen
adventures so you and your family can be encouraged to "play" in the
kitchen. In this article, I will provide links to the different easy
recipes and fun articles that I have published.
I consider that my Recipe for Making Memories in the Kitchen. So,
without further ado, let the games begin!
My Own Personal Roast Recipe
This recipe is the result of trial and error. I just kept playing with
different ideas until I found a tasty, tender way to cook a roast in the
oven.
It has become a family favorite and I have allowed it to be published in
several charity cookbooks over the last 40 years, but it is still my own
original recipe. Although I was very young when I developed this
recipe, I still cook my roast the same way today.
Having Fun in the Kitchen
I started cooking when I was a child and still living at home with my
parents. My sister and I both helped in the kitchen and it was not unusual
for us to have real, honest to goodness food fights with the leftovers. We
frequently made mashed potato balls and hurled them through the air at each
other or any unsuspecting individual who entered the kitchen. We flung
spaghetti noodles against the wall and said we were testing it to see if it
was done. By dinnertime, there would be 10 or 12 noodles hanging from the
wall on spaghetti night.
While I still enjoy throwing pasta noodles against the wall, I have found
that test does not work with pasta shells. No matter how many pasta shells I
have thrown against the wall, none have ever stuck. Perhaps someday one will
stick. I'll just have to keep testing them.
This
easy pasta recipe is also shared on Cooking for the Holidays
and, if you click it, the link will take you to that website.
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Easy Salmon Loaf Patties Recipe How to Bake Potatoes Chicken Enchiladas Recipe How to Bake a Turkey Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup Instant Pot Recipe Homemade Barbeque Recipe for the Best BBQ Sandwiches
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Playing with Ingredients
Working in the kitchen with my sister was fun. We occasionally experimented
with the food. Sometimes we would put a little extra pepper in one of our
brothers' bowls of stew or add a little something extra to spice up their
lives and the dinner table. Oddly enough, the boys consumed whatever we fed
them and much to our distress, rarely noticed a difference. I only remember
one brother gagging on hot barbecue sauce and believe it or not, we were not
responsible.
Of course, there are the recipes from my mother and grandmother that I have never played with, never changed and never
shared except on websites I own. My motto for this group of recipes is "you can't improve
on perfection, so why try!"
Directions for making the pizza pictured on right, can be found at
Halloween Haven
Playing with Your Food Recipes
These are some of my favorite recipes. They are really step by step
instructions on decorating, so I call it playing with my food. Sometimes
making these special treats can be messy, but they are always fun as you
create your own original work of food art.
Don't just make these treats alone to serve to your family. Grab your child, your
husband, your sister, your mother or even your father and make these treats with your
family!
To see some of my favorite fun food articles, simply click the source link
below each photo. That will take you directly to the recipe and tutorials
for creating your own fun food.
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How to Decorate Panda Cupcakes How to Decorate a Snake Cake How to Make Marshmallow Flower Cupcakes 4th of July Party Flag Cake Recipe How to Decorate Snowman Cupcakes How to Make a Chocolate Halloween Ghost Castle Cake How to Make a Chocolate Halloween Ghost Train Cake How to Make a Cupcake Pumpkin Cake
Teaching an Old Dog, New Tricks
I am happy to say that I married a man who enjoys messing around in the
kitchen too! The Breakfast Buddy featured below is his delicious creation and
when I wanted to learn how to grill, I asked him to teach me. He has always
made the most incredible steaks! In the article below, I share his secrets as
I take you step by step through my own "grilling" education.
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Breakfast "Buddy" Sandwich How to Grill the Perfect Steaks Cooking Hamburgers on an Indoor Grill
Special Treat and Finger Food Recipes
My family loves fruit and chocolate so it only seems natural for me to dip
fruit in chocolate. Once I started dipping fruit, it was impossible to stop!
I think I dipped every type of fruit we had in the house, then ran to the
grocery store for more. Of course, then I wrote an article about each
one.
Here is my collection of dipped fruit recipes. Be very careful though.
Chocolate dipped fruit can be very addictive!
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Chocolate Covered Fruit DIY Recipes
Taking Care of the Cook
Over the years, I have learned many things about cooking, about family and
about fun. The most important thing I have learned, is that the three things
go together. Have fun cooking with your family.
I watched my grandmother and my mother work in the kitchen during every
holiday for decades. Too often, they missed out on the fun simply because
the party was happening in another room.
I believe in bringing the party to the kitchen, enlisting help and taking
care of the cook. Perhaps, I see it more clearly because now I am the cook,
but I love to share ideas with others about how to have more fun with your
family, instead of working alone in the kitchen. Believe me, you can create
your own load of memories in the kitchen by simply letting others help in
the kitchen.
A Lot of Good Food and A Load of Memories
I think it is because of my experiences and our experiments in the kitchen
when I was a child, that I approach the kitchen with humor now. I still cook
the old standards passed down from my great grandmother, grandmother and
mother, but I enjoy creating new treats for my family too and it is even
better when I get "help."
Over the years, a lot of good food and a load of memories have been made in
our kitchen!
Easy Dessert Recipes
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Easy Strawberry Trifle Easy Blackberry Cobbler
Candy Recipe
I am not going to tell you this recipe is extremely easy. It seems easy to me
because I have been making it for 40+ years, but making candy takes a bit of
practice to perfect.
While I try to walk viewers through the process with
photos, I know this is something that is simply learned by trial and error
because the outcome when making candy depends so much on the climate of the
day, as well as the altitude of a region.
Here is my mother's Peanut Butter Fudge
Recipe. I could never improve on this recipe. It really is delicious!
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Peanut Butter Fudge
Easy Beverage Recipes
Take time to relax! While the food is in the oven, or after all of the work is done, sit back with your loved ones and enjoy a cup of tea, hot chocolate or perhaps a cool glass of lemonade. These are the moments you will want to capture and hold for as long as you can.
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Spice Tea Recipe Homemade Lemonade Recipe Hot Chocolate Mix Recipe
Chocolate Hot Cocoa Bombs Recipe
Easy Recipes by Sylvestermouse Reviewed
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