Category: recipes

Oooh, about to drip!  I’m not very good at photographing food, but I’m good at eating it.

We’re all about summer food at our house, so it was time to break out the ice cream maker.  I used this recipe for cinnamon ice cream and it was really, really delicious.  Now —  it has two teaspoons of cinnamon, so it is quite flavorful but even my kids liked it.  I think it would be excellent with a blueberry or peach cobbler.  This recipe contains eggs which I was skeptical about using for ice cream,  but I think it made it thicker and creamier.  And we didn’t get salmonella, though my four-year-old did blow some cinnamon in her eyes which resulted in 15 minutes of crying followed by a nap.

Today we made a granola recipe from Silver Palate oatmeal, found here.  We used walnuts, chopped banana chips and dried blueberries, which makes it taste like banana bread.  Yum!  This is the best granola recipe that I’ve tried so far — might have something to do with the cup of maple syrup in it.

I was looking for a decadent dessert to serve to runners post-marathon (my husband’s TWELFTH marathon).  So I decided to make whoopie pies.  Then I saw this article in the New York Times.

I was excited to learn that Marshmallow Fluff is vegetarian since my children are denied marshmallows, but it has some pretty unhealthy ingredients so I couldn’t bring myself to buy the large jar.  Instead, I used a small jar and substituted with butter.  You could accomplish the same thing with egg whites, but it always makes me nervous to put egg whites in icing.  The pies were just about like a messy cake with oozy icing in the center, but they were good and the kids definitely enjoyed them.