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Introduce Your Grandchildren To Ina Garten With The Easiest Delicious Chocolate Cake to make Together To Start, And As They Get Older, They Too Will Love Her Recipes Forever
This Grandma was introduced to Ina Garten by a dear, long (we never say old) friend who swears by her recipes. I think she thought I...
Oct 23, 20222 min read
Five Tips to Perfect This Grandma’s Best Mac and Cheese Recipe For Grandchildren Anytime and For Special Occasions for the Whole Family
When our oldest grandchildren, now teenagers, were younger, California Pizza Kitchen was their favorite restaurant, solely for their Mac...
Sep 11, 20224 min read
Nutella Fluff or Blender Chocolate Mousse: Pick Your Easy Version to Make For Grandchildren and Just Call It Nutella Pudding
Our four year old grandson, while visiting this weekend, made a restaurant out of Legos. I asked him what he was going to serve in his...
Aug 7, 20224 min read
Comfort Food During the 2022 Winter of Chaos With Grilled Cheese and Homemade Tomato Soup
With all the chaos and uncertainty around us this winter, as well as record breaking temperatures nationwide and ridiculous amounts of...
Mar 25, 20223 min read
Great Grandmother’s Famous Butter Cookies and the Best 2020 Homemade Christmas, Chanukah, and Specialty Disney and U.S. States Cookies For Games To Play and Times to Share, With the Best Ways to Mail
GG (Great Grandmother) Frieda, my mother, was a great cook and an even greater baker. Our home was overflowing with food and sweets as...
Dec 18, 20204 min read
Rainbow Bread to Enjoy On Our Way to Reach “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
Times are hard right now for all of us. There is a perfect song for this time,“Somewhere over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz. If you have...
Jun 24, 20204 min read
Valentine’s Day 2020With GG’s (Great Grandmother) Cookie Recipe or David’s Cookies
This Grandma realized several years ago that greeting cards and stamps for mailing are getting so expensive that it is not much more to...
Feb 12, 20203 min read
Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bowls Made Hard . . . Or the Easy Way . . . With Grandchildren of All Ages
Our grandchildren love raw cookie dough. It was so difficult when we first had the raw egg scare and then the uncooked flour scare. See...
Jan 15, 20203 min read
Missing Thanksgiving Magic – Cookie Bars — and Significant Family Presence
This Thanksgiving our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and their three of our precious grandchildren did not make it to Florida. Our...
Dec 4, 20194 min read
Fake Food Now Extends to Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese When the Real Thing is Grandchildren’s Favor
Grandpa and I just returned from Sicily and Malta, where farm to table is the norm. The food was natural and fresh with no...
Nov 13, 20193 min read
Fast and Easy Chocolate Mug Cake to Make in the Microwave With Grandchildren
According to the recipe for Chocolate Mug Cake reprinted in the New York Times, March 28, 2019, “if you google ‘mug cake,’ you’ll get...
Aug 7, 20192 min read
Feeding Grandchildren Dessert First Is Good Science For Grandma and Now A Scientific Study Confirms it is Good for All of Us
When our eldest daughter told us she was pregnant, I attended a conference where there were many friends and acquaintances who were...
Jun 26, 20193 min read
All Grandmas Have A Magic Recipe That Even Children Not Their Own Grandchildren Love and Here is a Favorite For Magic Cookie Bars
Our oldest grandchildren were excited to visit us in Florida for spring break, and were even more excited that our younger...
May 15, 20192 min read
Our Choice of Bread Defines Where We have Come From, Who We Are, and Sometimes Who We Aspire To Be
Our eleven year old granddaughter, visiting for spring break, asked for a sandwich. Ever the doting grandmother, I had purchased three...
Mar 27, 20184 min read
Two Best Baked Apple Recipes With No Added Sugar For Toddlers To Adults
We know sugar is our enemy. As a post menopausal woman, I was advised that my body could not process sugar but could process fat, and...
Mar 6, 20183 min read
Best Easy Make Ahead Baked French Toast For Holiday Brunches And Five More Special French Toast Reci
One of the most requested breakfasts from our grandchildren is for this Grandma to make french toast, especially on a school day, where...
Jan 9, 20183 min read
Safely Making Homemade Cookie Dough and Adding It to Safe Homemade Ice Cream
Making homemade slime was the activity of choice among grandchildren recently. It was messy and disgusting, but that goes in grandma’s...
Dec 1, 20173 min read
How to Celebrate the Month of November’s National Sandwich Day With Grandchildren
November 3 each year is National Sandwich Day. There seems to be a day for everything celebrated in our country, and we can use each...
Nov 16, 20174 min read
Great Grandmother’s Jello Mold is Part of the Fabric of Our Traditions And Jello Even Works for Your
When this Grandma was a child, Jello was a favored dessert. We had different flavors and ingredients put into different size Tupperware...
Jun 16, 20173 min read
Comfort Food “Whatever You Want Soup” and “Adult Soup” That We Grandmas May Cook With Our Grandchildren But Must Forbid Them To Eat
When this Grandma was a child a pot of soup was always on the stove in our house. GG (great grandmother, my mother) came from a time and...
Feb 10, 20177 min read
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