Baby Banana Cakes (Happy Birthday!)
My little boy turned one back in June. Oddly, I feel sad about this. I’m feeling similarly melancholy as my five year old gears up for kindergarten this fall. I […]
Category Archives: Cooking with Kids
Lightly Spiced Oatmeal Smoothie
We’re deep into gardening season, and early summer brings some of my favorite crops. A few weeks ago, we went strawberry picking, which we can’t seem to resist even though […]
Whole Grain Doughnuts
Homemade cake doughnuts are to die for: the crisp outsides and slightly sweet, cakey, moist insides. They’re so delicious. They’re much more substantial than yeast doughnuts, which are far sweeter […]
Healthy Peanut-Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten Free, Vegan)
We’ve just ended a breathtaking bout of Spring weather. One of the Pacific Northwest’s top charms has to be the brevity of winter and the length of spring, which, in […]
Healthy Banana Muffins
Eat local. In general, I agree with the phrase . . . most of the time. I love the idea of supporting local farmers and the idea of eating foods […]
Cherry-Kissed Chocolate Cups
Chocolate seems like a must on Valentines Day, and this little number also fits the cuteness bill. They’re also easy to make and, more importantly for me, consist of ingredients I […]
Super Fast, Healthy Chocolate Pudding (Vegan too)
Sometimes I get a vision of some wonderful concoction I want to create. This often happens while I’m nursing the baby in the middle of the night and the world is still, or at […]
Healthy Pumpkin Cookies
I love making treats with my daughter, particularly at holidays. I have memories of my own mom mixing up sugar cookie dough late at night (it was likely eight o’clock, […]
The Joyful Pantry 