Archive: December 2008

Treat Week Day 3: Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread Homemade Nutella

11 December 2008

Please pardon the small interruption in treats.  When you’re working with Yummies, and in this particular case a one-year-old and 12 two-year-old  Yummies, your plans sometimes go awry, your camera gets highjacked, and Treat Week comes to a screeching halt.  On the plus side, there will be future posts on the chaos and fun that […]

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Treat Week Day 2: Guest Bloggers Cal and Lecia Make Dana’s Orange Biscotti

09 December 2008

Yummy Mummy has some guests today, and I couldn’t be more excited to introduce you to Lecia, who writes the adorable A Day That is Dessert blog, and her son and mini-chef Cal.  For Treat Week they offered to share this beautiful and easy holiday recipe for biscotti that they make every year at their home […]

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Treat Week Day 1: Chocolate Bark with Dried Goji Berries and Crushed Pistachios

08 December 2008

With Christmas only a couple of weeks away and Hannukah only three weeks away, we thought that you might enjoy a week of easy treats that you can make with your children.  First up is this glam chocolate bark bedecked with Goji berries and Pistachios.  We, fortunately, live right down the street from nut Shangri-la, […]

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Risotto Part 2: Risotto Cakes for Cooking Class

04 December 2008

What could possibly be better than risotto?  Fresh, local mozzarella surrounded by risotto and baked until golden on the outside and gooey in the middle.   At our very last Yummy cooking class of 2008, we made these risotto cakes.  The children got to scoop up the risotto, smash it into a pancake, pop the […]

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Risotto Part 1: Horton’s Corn Risotto with Sage

02 December 2008

My post-Thanksgiving adrenaline letdown resulted in a subsequent day-after laziness.  Not only that, but I had no real drive to cook anything at all for a while nor to eat any of the loads of leftovers that had been filed away in the freezer and back of the fridge.  Leftovers in general?  Enhh.   However, there […]

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