The best boiled water recipe

Moldy oldie but still a terrific goodie: the best boiled water recipe! I’ve made this recipe several times, and each time I’ve been quite pleased with the results. When I have more time, I’d like to experiment with the grin-inducing tips and suggestions from the readers’ comments. Someone suggested adding pasta to the recipe. I’m [...]

Another quick peanut butter smoothie for after workouts

After the sugar fest leading up to and including yesterday, my clothes are pointing out that … well, it had been a huuuuge sugar fest. Not eating after workouts is a mistake I used to make, so I checked the various tips out there. Peanut butter smoothies are, of course, popular, and I’ll be adding [...]

How to make those hot chocolate sticks

I think you’re supposed to make these hot chocolate sticks and then give them to your nearest and dearest for Valentine’s Day, for birthdays, and, the bestest of all, Just Because Day. Doesn’t look too complicated, the first step, the making part. It’s the second part, the giving part, that I am going to have [...]

Five B’s for Brew

I managed to convince some of my more excitable 4th graders that blueberries, basil, broccoli, bananas, and beets make up the bulk of witch’s brew. Beets? They didn’t know what beets were, so I showed a picture and described how beets turn everything red (red velvet cake, anyone?). They nodded approvingly. Perhaps witches don’t often [...]

That whole lemon lemonade

Apparently all the gourmet lemonade-ers out there make lemonade by plunking the whole lemon in the blender. Wait, not the whole lemon, as The Blender Girl instructs to remove the seeds. But everything else goes in. I have to try it her way out of curiosity, but for now my little ones will still make [...]