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Gardening with Your Kids

by Shaina on May 15, 2012

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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography:

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I happen to know that Mandi is going to talk about cooking with her kids in a week, and while I have shared my personal feelings and a few strategies for doing just that, I thought I’d take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about what comes before the cooking in our home.

We’ve gone over how important I think it is to involve the kids from beginning to end, which means plenty of time spent perusing supermarket aisles and farmers market stands kids right there with me. However, in our home, we view the gardening part as equally important.

But I don’t have space!

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Homemade Food Gifts for Mother’s Day

May 8, 2012
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I try to make my gift-giving heartfelt. This means that my gifts are often also edible and homemade, and I try to stay away from the obvious chocolates, flowers and a card. I want my gift to really tell my mom or my mother-in-law or the new mom down the street that I took a [...]

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Guinness Brownies for St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2012
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: St. Patrick’s Day always makes me think of my beer of choice: Guinness. Love it or hate it, it’s nearly a tradition come March 17th, and I am all for love. Love it shall be, and brownies there shall be. I [...]

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Rethinking Roasted Chicken: Roasted Tandoori Chicken

February 16, 2012
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: When I’m planning my weekly menu, I often include a whole piece of meat on the bone. It could be a turkey breast, a beef roast, a pork shoulder or, more often than not, a chicken. I do it because it [...]

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Easy Squeezy Lemon Curd

January 18, 2012
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: Winter citrus is here. I always find the combination of frigid temperatures (at least up here in the North) and the citrus season coinciding interesting. Perhaps it’s just my Midwestern upbringing shining through, but citrus makes me think of warmer weather, [...]

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Get Motivated for More Family Dinners in the New Year

January 6, 2012
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: It’s no secret that I place a high degree of importance on family dinner time. It’s not just that it has long been touted as the cure all for getting your kids to be happy, achieve higher degrees of success in [...]

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How to Freeze Cookies for Holiday Baking Do-Aheads

November 29, 2011
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: One thing I always tell myself I’m going to do to get a head start on the holiday baking extravaganza is to go at it slow and steady. It’s what my grandmother did; baking a few batches here and there, mixing [...]

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Including Your Kids in Holiday Baking

October 31, 2011
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: Every year I bake pan after pan of Christmas cookies to gift and to bring to family gatherings. It’s something my grandma used to do long before I had my own kids, and I still remember her kitchen covered in trays [...]

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Eating Habits After the Harvest

October 6, 2011
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The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: We’re looking at what the changing seasons means to us and our family dinner routine. Mandi’s making adjustments to cut out convenience foods and Jessica is looking at balancing busy schedules and making dinner as good as possible. Here’s how I’m [...]

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