Light Strawberry Cheese Cake

  A bite earlier in the day of this dessert was enough of an incentive to make my kids skip their regularly scheduled stop at the vending machine after their swim lessons. Every Tuesday evening, the stop at the vending machine typically ends with them buying a small pack of some processed junk … but [...]

Eggnog Bread Pudding & a Giveaway

    My favorite dish of the holidays has to be Eggnog. I didn’t know what Eggnog was till my first year in this country. Now come Thanksgiving time, I pick up Eggnog by the cartons at the grocery stores. I buy them all – Soy Eggnog, Coconut Milk Eggnog, Chocolate Eggnog, Whole Eggnog, Light [...]

3 Ingredients Apple Tart

This is such a quick and yummy dessert that by the time you are done eating dinner, the dessert is ready to be eaten. It needs 3 ingredients and you have delicious Apple Tart for everyone. I used Trader Joe’s Artisan Puff Pastry for it as its ingredients are wheat flour, butter, salt, sugar and [...]

Video – 3.5 year old Simone makes a quick snack (Red Apple Smiles)

Back in May of this year I had posted on how my then 3.5 year old came home one day and wanted to make her first recipe. Here’s the video of her making a quick snack using cream cheese, marshmallows and red apples. She named this snack — “Red Apple Smiles”. I love her budding interest in [...]

Red Apple Smiles Recipe made by a preschooler

As the saying goes – “sow and you shall reap”. I like how my 3.5 year old is so interested in learning how to cook and try things out in the kitchen. Yesterday she came back from preschool saying I want to make “red apple smiles”. Here’s how this recipe played out in our home: [...]

Peanut Butter Banana Frozen Pop (Zoku)

I like peanut butter and banana sandwiches/Panini’s and with the temperature soaring I have been thinking about new frozen pop zoku recipes for this summer. I have about 20 new zoku recipe ideas that I will be creating over the next few weeks (so do come back!). This simple zoku has been inspired by the [...]

Puff Pastry Baklava Sticks

I have been craving baklava for the last few days, the layers of nuts and phylo dough soaked in honey and syrup just sound delicious. Then it occurred to me that my kids had never tasted Baklava before. Now I was on a mission! I always keep puff pastry sheets in the freezer, it is  [...]

Mango Kulfi (Mango Indian Icecream) Frozen Zoku Pop

A fond memory of growing up in India was spending summer with my grandparents.  Every day while we were at my grandparents home – the ice-cream man or the ‘kulfi wallah’ would come by, and all the cousins would run out to get some kulfi. It was a treat for the kids and the elders [...]

Nutty Tiramisu Zoku Frozen Pop

Hello My Zoku Maker! I have missed you! It only made sense to put you away while the temperatures were freezing… but now we are back as Spring is around the corner! I have a long list of Zoku Recipes we are going to be posting on YumKid over the next few months. The first [...]

Recipe: Persimmon Rice Pudding

Sometimes you have all the best intentions to make sometime and you don’t for any number of reasons. I had bought some fuyu persimmon to make some jelly at home. That was wishful thinking! Between the holidays, start up hours, kids and entertaining relatives – hmm… let’s just say they sat there! I love persimmons! [...]

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