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All the leaves are brown… — Apricot and Raisin Granola

October 29, 2010 by EmmaEats

Well, fall seems to have arrived with a vengeance. Temperature has dropped nearly 10F everyday over the past few days! I feel as though we need a quick injection of something warm and cinnamon-y in the house. And since Emma’s also been asking (out of the blue, I may add), that she’d really like some granola, I’ve set to work on some. I never really thought I’d be the granola-making kind of girl, although I remember loving the Quaker granola […]

Categories: Breakfast, Really Yum Yum, Recipes • Tags: Breakfast, Cinnamon, Cooking, Dried fruit, Family-friendly, Food, gluten-free, Granola, healthy, Kid-friendly, Martha Stewart, nut-free, oil-free, quick and easy, Recipes

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Going bananas

August 27, 2010 by EmmaEats

Emma’s first taste of banana bread goes way back – probably one of the first dessert foods she ever ate. And it’s become a long time favourite of hers. In the early months after her arrival, our big outings would be to head back to the town we used to live in while I was still working and stay with a friend for a day or two while my husband worked. We’d play, visit, have coffee with friends and then […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: baking, Baking and Confections, banana bread, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Recipes

Summertime…and peaches are easy

August 25, 2010 by EmmaEats

A good friend, D, introduced our family to crumble a few years ago. Emma, not surprisingly, became terribly fond of them. So much so that when that friend visits, she tends to make a mini Emma-sized apple crumble as a treat for her. Mmmmmm. I decided to try my hand at crumble not that long ago. The results were lacklustre at best. Too heavy on the crumble, too light on the fruit and a little too sweet. Thank goodness I […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: baking, Cooking, Dessert, desserts, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Peaches, Recipes, summer recipes

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Not for the faint of carb

August 12, 2010 by EmmaEats

My family is a carb-loving family. My daughter could eat pasta for every meal, every day if we permitted it. My husband can eat multiple loaves of bread weekly, and if I had to pick one food to eat for eternity, it would probably be pizza (one cannot sustain oneself on chocolate alone). So imagine the horror when we realized one holiday morning that we had no bread for toast/sandwiches/snacking! Thankfully, after some quick thinking (and searching the cookbooks in […]

Categories: Appetizers, Recipes • Tags: baking, Biscuit, Bread, Breakfast, Cooking, Family-friendly, Food, Kid-friendly, nut-free, quick and easy, Recipes

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Good Morning Sunshine

August 11, 2010 by EmmaEats

We start every morning the same way — Emma wakes up and calls out to my husband, G, and I “Mummy! Daddy! I’m ready!”. This is the indicator that the day is starting, whether we’re ready for it or not. I’m usually not. After some of my own delay tactics (I can hardly wait until someone else wants to sleep in when she hits her teens), we do eventually get moving and it’s on to breakfast. Emma usually is pretty specific […]

Categories: Breakfast, Recipes • Tags: Breakfast, Cooking, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Kid-friendly, Maple syrup, nut-free, Pancake, quick and easy

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Calgon, take me away

April 7, 2010 by EmmaEats

My husband came home yesterday and he was broken. I should start this by saying he is normally unshakeable and it takes a lot to finally push him to the point where he will say he’s had enough. Emma sensed things weren’t as they usually are with her daddy and turned to him (after planting a few wonderful kisses on his face) and said “Don’t worry Daddy. I know you’ll feel better.” In an attempt to help things along, Emma […]

Categories: Dinner, Lunch, Recipes • Tags: Chicken, Cooking, Family-friendly, Food, food-photography, Kid-friendly, nut-free, Poultry, quick and easy, Recipes, Rice

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Thoughtful or stingy?

March 29, 2010 by EmmaEats

At one point this past Christmas after Emma had been opening presents for over 4 hours (she was so happy!), I kept thinking that she was gleaning the wrong message about holidays/gift giving/fiscal responsibility/consumerism. I know, she’s only two, but still…and the other day, she was reading and saw Franklin and his friends playing with Tinkertoys and turned to me and said, “we can just buy some of those”, my heart sank. As a result I’ve decided that this Christmas, […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: Christmas, Cooking, Dessert, Family-friendly, Food, Gift-giving, Handmade, Homemade, Martha Stewart, nut-free