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A Cupcake Christmas Tree
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Corrine Lewack made this wonderful cupcake Christmas tree – that you can see in the photo above – for a party. Here’s what she wrote about it:
“Here’s the cupcake tree.. not as easy as I thought… well it was easy… but had no patience tonight to space the cupcakes properly.. but… I wouldn’t have had enough.. this is 47 cupcakes.. :ahem, I don’t know WHAT could have happened with one of them: lol… probably could have used another 20ish cupcakes to make it more “tight”… and it was messy… maybe next time make cupcakes with a hardened glaze frosting on top? Not sure.. the cupcakes are “stuck” onto an aluminum-foil-wrapped 12″ Styrofoam cone with toothpicks… suggest using the “flat” toothpicks.. cuz those suckers are POINTY…
All suggestions will be gladly accepted… :) .. p.s. dontcha love my dairy cow salt and pepper shakers? xoxo”
I asked Corrine if she used the whipped icing that you can buy in the stores, because that would be softer. She said, “it WAS the whipped type of frosting… never again, lol.” I’d suggest instead using regular icing (i.e. not whipped) so it doesn’t drip off. If anyone has any other suggestions, please let us know in the comments below.
Thanks!
Mama Lisa
Stuffed Animals and Robotic Animal Toys for Kids
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008Furreal Friends is the big thing this year. They’re robotic pets that act like real animals. They feel like stuffed animals – though sometimes, they’re hard underneath. There’s a horse that kids can “ride” on. Actually, it’s the head that moves – making real-looking movements – and you can “feed” it. There are cats, dogs, hamsters, and the list goes on. They range in price from about $19.99 (for the small animals) – $199.00 (for the horses). Preskool put out a Triceratops robotic toy that young kids can go on too. If you’re interested in buying a robotic stuffed animal, I’d recommend checking out the reviews of the different types of pets on Amazon and YouTube. Furreal Friends is the main brand – but some specific animals rate better than others.
Chantilly Lane Bears sing! Their mouths move while they belt out a song! These are really cute – though hearing the same song again and again can make a parent crazy! They’re less well-known than some other toys and I think there’s value in that! They come in other animals besides bears. They’re priced around $19.99.
A Webkinz is a little stuffed animal that comes with a special internet code that lets your child can interact with an online version of it. Webkinz have been around for a couple of years – but both boys and girls in elementary school still enjoy them. Their animals can get a “job” online and with the “money” they make they can improve their houses, and buy virtual food or clothes for their Webkinz. There are also games kids can play online in the Webkinz World. Webkinz normally cost between $8.00 – $15.00.
Girls aged 4-8 like Animals in My Pocket (like “Puppy in My Pocket“) and also Littlest Pet Shop animals. My daughter and her friend can’t get enough of them! There’s also “Safari in my Pocket” that boys might like.
These are some fun gift ideas if you have a school-aged child in your life who loves animals!
Mama Lisa
UPDATE: Check out my more recent post of recommended video games for kids!
Designers’ Sketches for Michelle Obama for the Inauguration
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008WWD Fashion asked designers to send in sketches for clothing designs for Michelle Obama and her daughters to wear on Inauguration Day on January 20th – when Obama officially becomes President. Check out the results at WWD.com.
The sketch above was done by Isaac Mizrahi for Michelle, Sasha and Malia.
My daughter and I enjoyed watching the slide show together and picking out the dresses we liked best!
Yummy Cole Slaw Recipes made from Cheap, Nutritious Cabbage
Monday, December 8th, 2008Cabbage is a nice, inexpensive vegetable to buy in these difficult economic times. What’s more – it full of nutritious vitamins and antioxidants. It’s one of the cruciferous vegetables that’s been found to be so important for your health.
This past weekend I made my mother’s recipe for Cole Slaw that I grew up with – yum, um! It’s the only Cole Slaw recipe I like. Cole Slaw usually tastes too much like mayonnaise to me. My mother’s version has mayo in it – but it’s seasoned in a way that makes it taste more like a yummy dressing. I used low-fat mayo to make it healthier.
As you can see below, there are two ways to make this recipe. One is the sweet way, with carrots and raisins, and the other is with onions or peppers and less sugar.
The first photo is of the non-sweet version:
The next photo is of the sweet version. We enjoyed both variations when I made them last night. Though, the sweet way with the raisins is the way my mother made it the most – and it makes me think of being a kid!
Cole Slaw Recipe
Shred 3 cups of cabbage
Method 1
Add a ¼ cup chopped green pepper or ¼ minced onion.Method 2
One cup of grated carrot
½ cup raisins (optional)Dressing
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon cider vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar (I used only 1 t. sugar for the onion version)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon celery seeds (optional – but recommended)Combine dressing ingredients together until the sugar dissolves. You can add a little olive oil to extend the dressing if needed.
Mix other ingredients with the dressing.
The full flavor of the sweet version came out after it was chilled for a couple of hours.
Bon appétit!
Many thanks to my Mom for the recipe!Mama Lisa
Kids Are Bloggers Too!
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Guest blogger, Jason Pomerantz, of Fiddle and Burn, writes about technology for kids.
Everyone knows that when kids become interested in something, watch out! Before long, they’ll turn themselves into the world’s greatest experts on whatever it is they’re focused on.
For the past year or two, my son Calvin (currently 14) has been a fan of the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. In Magic, players buy packs of cards which each contain spells of various powers. They build themselves a deck from their collection and ‘duel’ with opponents.
I noticed that Calvin was spending more and more of his free time studying cards on the internet, rebuilding decks, even designing cards of his own. His close friend Zach shared his obsession and the two of them could duel for hours.
I knew he was having fun, so I was all for it, but since I’m an adult and a dad, I couldn’t help thinking that there must be more productive ways for him to be spending his time.
Then it occurred to me that there was a way he could harness all this energy, while having even more fun: He and Zach could blog about the game!
When I mentioned it, they were enthusiastic, so I got to work setting it up.
There are many popular blogging tools out there. Two of the best (both free) are Wordpress and Blogger. They take a little technical know-how to get started, but nothing too overwhelming. The initial set-up isn’t that much more difficult then installing a word processor program.
Calvin and Zach call their blog Dragon Guardians. They’ve been faithfully at it for almost half a year now. It’s got them researching, writing, and learning technology. All while they’ve built an audience of dozens of people every day.
Blogging turned a fun hobby into something educational (shh… don’t tell them). Plus, it’s very empowering to learn that we, as individuals, can be more than just passive consumers of information fed to us by giant companies. We can create the information ourselves!
If one of your children is an expert on something, why not encourage them to blog and share it with the world?
To Avoid Current Day Food Dyes Would You Eat a Bug?
Saturday, December 6th, 2008I’m trying to work out ways to dye icing that don’t involve food dye. Some of the dyes today are questionable health-wise, but also, I’d like my kids to see that you can do things the old-fashioned way.
Looking back at old cookbooks, I keep noticing that they used a lot of cochineal powder to dye their icing. It comes out red or pink.
I thought about trying to use that method myself, but when I read more I discovered something that made me reconsider: Cochineal powder is made of bugs!
Actually, it comes from insects that live on cactus plants. They’re found largely in Mexico, Peru and Spain.
They were originally introduced to Europe from Mexico in the 16th century. Cochineal insects were likely used in dyes in Mexico as early as the 11th century by the Aztecs.
I like to be adventurous in my eating, but I don’t know if I’m quite ready for that. I think I’ll try to find alternatives to Cochineal in my search for natural food colorings! I’ll post a link here to my results.
(But here’s the dirty secret – don’t read this, unless you have a strong stomach! We’re already eating the equivalent of Cochineal all the time. It’s called Carmine Dye. It’s considered a natural food coloring and it’s used in many different types of food! It’s also used in makeup, girls – even some Burt Bee’s Lip Balm has Carmine in it…)
-Mama Lisa
Check Out Celeriac – It’s Celery Root – Interesting Veggie, plus a Recipe
Friday, December 5th, 2008Celeriac, or celery root, is a well-known vegetable root in France. It’s called céleri-rave in French.
I got some this week at our vegetable CSA (a club we belong to where we pay in advance and get delicious organic veggies delivered from a farm every week).
One way to eat them is to make a salad out of them. You peel the roots first. Then you shred them. According to Suzanne at our CSA, the French eat them with a mustard dressing. That’s how I prepared them for my husband, my teenage son and me. I’ll post that recipe below.
My 7 year old daughter would never go for a celeriac mustard dressing salad! So I took out some of the shredded celery root. I placed it in a microwave safe bowl. Sprinkled a little bit of water over it. Put a little pat of butter on it and a sprinkling of salt. I covered it and microwaved it for one minute. It was quite good! My daughter ate about half of it – which I would call fairly successful considering that she’s a pretty picky eater.
Here’s the recipe for the salad…
Celery Root Salad with Mustard Dressing
2 Celery Roots
3 ½ T. Olive Oil (I prefer using Extra Virgin)
½ Freshly squeezed Lemon (plus more if desired)
Pinch salt (to taste)
Grinding Black Pepper (to taste)
Pinch Sea Salt (if you have it)
2 T. Mustard (Preferably French – like Grey Poupon – you can use less or more depending on if you like a kick or not)Peel and shred celery roots. I used a food processor for the shredding.
Put olive oil, lemon, salt, sea salt and pepper in bowl and stir well until mixed. Add in mustard. Mix well and adjust to suit your taste. (When my teenage son is eating it with us I put a little less mustard in.)
Add in the shredded celery roots and stir.
Bon appétit!
Many thanks to Suzanne Zoubeck for suggesting the French way of preparing celery root. We really enjoyed it!
-Mama Lisa
Check Out the Vegetable Orchestra – No Kidding!
Sunday, November 30th, 2008This is way cool. You can encourage your family to eat more vegetables, while listening to cool music. It’s played on instruments made out of vegetables by The Vegetable Orchestra in Vienna.
This is a testament to the creative spirit of humankind! Check out the video below…
Maybe you’ll be inspired to make a vegetable instrument with kids in your life!
Mama Lisa
Fennel Salad Inspired by Bittman (with a side salad of – now don’t be frightened – mibuna!)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I mentioned in my last blog post how we belong to a CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture). We get less expensive organic vegetables that come from a farm that day. We get whatever vegetables come in each week – there’s a little choice sometimes – but to a large extent – we get whatever’s in season at the time.
Last week we got, among other things, fennel and mibuna. Fennel tastes to me like licorice. I love it plain. But since I’m trying to fit these vegetables into our family meals, I’m often looking for recipes to deal with them. I was happy today to find a recipe that featured fennel by Mark Bittman in the New York Times. His recipe included celery (which I have in the house) and thinly sliced parmesan cheese (which I don’t have in the house – I only have grated parmesan).
Another complication to using Bittman’s recipe exactly as is, is that the fennel from the CSA is so good, that you don’t want to throw any part of it out.
Here’s what I did…
I cut up the fennel. After that, I happened to go over to my daughter to give her a kiss. She told me my breath smelled good. That’s because I was nibbling on the fennel. So I told her to try it. She liked it. So I put some to the side for her to eat plain – like she likes most food.
Then I added some grated parmesan (I recommend decent quality cheese for this purpose), olive oil, freshly squeezed lemon juice, salt, pepper and a little fleur de sel (which you can use if you have it – it’s a very tasty salt from France). I mixed it all together and voila – it’s great!
I also had a little mibuna in the fridge. Mibuna is a green leaf in the mustard family from Japan. It’s not as strong as most mustard greens I’ve tasted – though it has a little kick to it. I put some of the same mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, parmesan, salt, pepper and fleur de sel over it to make another little salad – Yum!
Check out Mark Bittman’s video to see how he made his salad. Yum Um!
A Cheaper Way to Buy Organic Food for Your Family
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008The other day I discussed one way to help decide whether or not to buy organic food for your family – selectively buying organic produce based on which fruits and vegetables have tested high in pesticides.
Another good idea is to see if there are any organic farmer markets, food co-ops or CSA’s in your area. We belong to a CSA – which stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Everyone pays a share in advance and then we all receive a share of organic vegetables each week – that come directly from the farm. The cost is very reasonable when you work it out on a per week basis. We get about 5 to 6 organic vegetables every week for about $15 per week (we live near New York City, where the cost of living is high). We also pay extra to get an herb share.
The food is out of this world! We’ve been eating vegetables we would never have bought in the past – simply because we never heard of them – or never saw them in the food store. Vegetables like Mizuna, Mei Quing Choi, Romano Beans, Tat Soi and Pak Choi – and some I’ve heard of, but have never cooked with, like Tomatilloes, Swiss Chard and Kale. It’s made my cooking more varied. Of course, they do also have standard vegetables like broccoli, cucumbers and tomatoes.
The vegetables we get at the CSA have more taste then what you find in the grocery store too. Our CSA runs from April until December. We’ll miss it when it’s over for the winter.
Here’s a link I found with directories around the US of CSA’s.
-Mama Lisa
Should You Buy Organic for Your Family?
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Deciding whether or not to buy organic food for your family is a harder question in today’s economic climate, where people are worried about job security.
One answer is to selectively buy organic. Specifically seek out organic produce based on which foods have the highest levels of pesticides on them. The not-for-profit Environmental Working Group did about 43,000 tests on produce between 2000 and 2005.
Here were the 12 worst foods – meaning these you should buy organic:
Peaches (Highest pesticide load)
Apples
Sweet Bell Peppers
Celery
Nectarines
Strawberries
Cherries
Lettuce
Grapes (Imported/Not domestic US)
Pears
Spinach
PotatoesThe 12 best foods, meaning lowest in pesticides:
Eggplant
Broccoli
Cabbage
Bananas
Kiwi
Asparagus
Sweet Peas-Frozen
Mango
Pineapples
Sweet Corn-Frozen
Avocado
Onions (lowest pesticides)You can go to FoodNews to see the full list.
Great Photos on the Internet to Show Your Kids!
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Here are some photos from the National Archives Ansel Adams collection (one near Death Valley, the other of the Grand Canyon)…
The Library of Congress has a Catalog of Online Prints & Photographs. (Many of those photos are in the public domain.)
They’ve teamed up with Flickr to post some of their popular photos. Below is a photo of President Taft with his sister and her kids, from the early 20th century. It’s from Flickr.
Google has teamed up with Time Inc. to make available on the internet millions of photos from Life Magazine. The photos span from the 1860’s to the 1970’s. You can look at the photos – of course – but I believe they’re still copyright protected.
I must say, it’s interesting to view some of the wonderful photos. Here are links to a couple of my favorites…
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1900)
It’s worth taking your child to these sites to see some wonderful historic photos – or simply check ‘em out yourself!
-Mama Lisa
Ideas to Encourage Your Child to Read
Thursday, November 20th, 2008This week I met with my daughter’s 2nd grade teacher for parent teacher conferences. There was a hand-out for all the parents about ways to encourage your child to read.
Here are some of the ideas I wanted to point out:
-Give magazine subscriptions as gifts (good idea with the December holidays approaching)
-Collect simple recipes and allow your child to cook them. There are some good cookbooks available at the local library for kids.
-Always leave lots of notes for your kids. Put them in their lunch boxes, at different places around the house, etc.
-Play board games that encourage reading.
-Buy your child books about subjects s/he loves – even if it’s something like Barbie dolls or Pokemon. What’s most important is that your child is interested in the subject and wants to read.
-Read classic chapter books to your child at night. Better yet, read them to the whole family. My husband reads books like The Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Harry Potter to all of us. We all look forward to this special time together at night.
-Find internet sites and computer games about topics your child enjoys. My son has been interested in the weather since he was in preschool. (He’s in high school now.) He has checked the weather reports online since he was about 3 1/2 years old (no joke!). His interest progressed to reading and learning about the weather on weather related sites.
-If your child is singing a song and doesn’t know all the lyrics, look them up with him/her. Let your child see the lyrics onscreen and try to read them. Every chance you get to have your child read is excellent no matter what the reason.
-Buy your child books s/he’ll enjoy for the holidays.
Some books my kids have liked over the years are:
Captain Underpants Books
Henry and Mudge Series (younger kids)
Five Little Monkeys books by Eileen Christelow
Magic School Bus Books
Eric Carle/Bill Martin Jr Books
Amelia Bedelia
Fancy Nancy
Guinness Book of World Records
Ripley’s Believe It or Not
Harry Potter Books
Roald Dahl’s Books
I-Spy Books
Wizard of Oz Books
Dr. Seuss
Magic Tree House SeriesFeel free to add any good ideas or recommended series in the comments!
-Mama Lisa
Children and Idiomatic Expressions, and a Great New Kids Book
Friday, October 17th, 2008Kids are funny.
My daughter was recently playing on her Gameboy (the handheld gaming system). I said something to her, but she was so absorbed that she completely didn’t hear. So I commented to her friend, who was also there, that my daughter was lost in another world. Her friend asked, “Why? Was she trapped?” I explained that, no, I was just using an expression meaning “when someone is so involved in what they’re doing that they don’t notice anything around them”.
It’s in this type of spirit that the book Butterflies in My Stomach, by Serge Bloch was written. You follow the main character though his first day of school. It’s full of idiomatic expressions that are illustrated literally. For example, the kid has butterflies in his stomach – so there’s an ink drawing of the kid with actual butterflies in his stomach.
Many of these expressions are funny on their own. Children love the expression, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” Bloch has a page where cats and dogs are raining down from the sky. It’s a hoot for kids to see this actually illustrated in a book.
The book gives you a chance to discuss these unique expressions with your child, in a funny way.
Childproofing Your Home
Saturday, August 9th, 2008In addition to Mama Lisa’s World, I’ve been doing work on a home maintenance site called “The Short and Long of Home Renovation”.
Here’s a post I wrote about ways to keep your home safe for kids. I followed these rules myself when my kids were little!
Kids Birthday Party Idea – Decorate Cookies
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Kids Love to decorate cookies and cupcakes – I’ve used this as an event at two of my daughter’s birthday parties. When she turned two I had the kids decorate their own cupcakes to eat. This year she turned 7 and the girls at her party decorated cookies as one of the activities.
I made round sugar cookies in advance – two per girl. (If you want to cut down on your work you can buy the pre-made sugar cookie dough in the dairy section of the supermarket.) Then we prepared white icing. We made three pretty pastel colors for them to use – pink, lavender and yellow. (If it’s for a boy’s party I would make more boyish colors.)
Then I had fun toppings available for the kids to use: sprinkles, crystal sugar, M & M’s and chocolate chips.
The activity took about 15 – 20 minutes. We wrapped up the cookies on plates for the kids to take home.
The kids had a ball!
(This doesn’t have to be just for parties or holidays – you can do this on a rainy day just for fun.)
How to Make a Pretty Flower Cake – It’s Easy!
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008In my last post, I explained how I made a number seven cake for my daughter’s birthday. I also made a flower cake. This is even easier to make!
What you’ll need:
One box of cake mix
White Icing
Food Coloring
Chocolate Chips
Large Platter (Preferably Round)All you have to do is make one 8″ round layer cake and 12 cupcakes. You should be able to do this with one box of cake mix (at least in the US). Then you ice the cake. If you want it to look like a typical flower, you can use yellow icing on the round cake. You can do this by mixing a little yellow food coloring into white vanilla icing.
Then you can make the cupcakes have a different color icing for the petals of your flower. Mix another color food coloring with the white icing and spread it on the cupcakes. I made them pink by using a couple of drops of neon red food coloring. Then arrange the cupcakes around the round cake on a large round platter.
Then you can put the chocolate chips around the yellow icing on the cake to look like seeds.
That’s all you need to do to make a pretty flower cake!
Happy Baking!
Mama Lisa
Lap Rhymes to Play with Babies
Thursday, July 24th, 2008I received a letter from Hungary from Mrs. Török looking for English rhymes to play with children sitting on laps. She wrote that she’s looking for “British, American or Canadian short riddles or rhymes which we don’t have to sing but they can be played while the children are sitting on the mothers’ legs. These rhymes would be played with babies.”
This Little Piggy is probably the most well-known rhyme that people do with babies in the English speaking world.
This Little Piggy
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy ate roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went…
“Wee wee wee wee wee”
All the way home…As you say each line you wiggle each of the baby’s toes, starting with the big toe and wiggling each toe until you’ve done all five. On the last two lines you tickle the child up the leg – as if the “piggy” is running home.
Round and Round the Garden is especially popular in England…
Round and Round the Garden (also known as Teddy Bear)
Round and round the garden…
(Run your index finger around child’s palm.)
Like a teddy bear.One step, two step…
(Walk your fingers up the child’s arm.)Tickle you under there!
(Tickle under armpit!)Open, Shut Them is popular in the US…
Open, Shut Them
Open, shut them.
Open, shut them.
Give a little clap, clap, clap.Open, shut them
Open, shut them.
Put them in your lap, lap, lap.Creep them, creep them,
Creep them, creep them,
Right up to your chin, chin, chin.Open wide your little mouth,
But do not let them in.Open and close your hands when you sing “Open, shut them” and then follow the words to the song and make the corresponding hand movements while you sing. On “do not let them in” hide your hands behind your back.
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes is popular around the world. Children point to each body part as they are listed. Older kids usually point by themselves. On babies, you can help them touch each part with their hands…
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,
Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes,
And eyes and ears and mouth and nose,
Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.How Big is Baby
This is a simple game where you say “How big is (Child’s name)?” Then in a high voice you answer, “So big!” while gently putting the baby’s arms up in the air.
Little kids love that one.
Here’s one to recite while gentle tapping the bottom of the baby’s feet…
Shoe a Little Horse
Shoe a little horse,
Shoe a little mare,
But let the little colt go
Bare, bare, bare.Here’s one to say while gently touching the different parts of the baby’s face…
Brow brinky
Brow brinky,
Eye winky,
Chin choppy,
Nose noppy,
Cheek cherry,
Mouth merry.With the above rhyme you can touch the baby’s hand to your face while you wiggle your brows, wink your eyes, move your jaw up and down, wriggle your nose, blow out your cheeks and smile.
While saying the following rhyme you can help the child make the associated motions…
Two Little Hands Go Clap, Clap, Clap
Two little hands go clap, clap, clap,
Two little feet go tap, tap, tap,
Two little legs kick high, high, high,
Two little lips go kiss, kiss, kiss,
Two little arms go hug, hug, hug,
Two little arms wave bye, bye, bye.If anyone would like to add any lap rhymes in the comments below, we’d love to learn more!
Enjoy and have fun!
Mama Lisa
UPDATE: Check out my next post for Horse Trotting Rhymes to Play with Older Kids!
Fun Cooking with Kids: A Monkey on a Stick and a Ladybug Cookie
Thursday, July 17th, 2008My daughter made these great treats at our local library.
It shows what a little imagination and some candy can do! You can adapt these ideas to any theme for a kids party, a unit in the classroom or just for fun at home.
-Mama Lisa
Kids Flower Drawing
Saturday, July 12th, 2008Here’s a drawing my daughter did this year in first grade. The theme was to draw something that’s beautiful about Earth. My daughter’s answer: Flowers!
This drawing was for Earth Day. It’s a nice idea to have children to do a drawing inside a globe shape to celebrate the holiday.
-Mama Lisa
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