April Fool’s Food Fun

I was given these receipes a couple of years ago by DineWhithoutWhine.com a great site by the way, check it out if you like these ideas. You’ll defenitely have your whole family saying, ” You are serving WHAT for Dinner?”

Ok, here they are and have fun:
Fake Hot Dogs And French Fries

Your kids will love fake hot dogs and French fries for lunch this April fools day. Peel a banana and spread peanut butter all over it to give it the appearance of a hot dog. Serve it in a hot dog bun with some strawberry preserve drizzled over the hotdog to make it look like ketchup.
For the fries, peel some apples and cut them into sticks resembling fresh fries. Roll them in a cinnamon and sugar mixture and bake them for 8 to 10 minutes in a preheated 400 F oven. Serve with a side of strawberry preserve as fake ketchup. What a fun lunch.

Fool everyone in the family with these fun dinner and desert ideas. They won’t believe you are actually serving cake for dinner and spaghetti for dessert.

Cherry Cake Or Meatloaf?
Your Family will be in for a big surprise with this meatloaf cake.

Prepare your favorite meatloaf and bake it in two 9-inch cake pans. Reduce the cooking time from what you would usually cook it since the meatloaf cake is thinner. While the meatloaf cakes are baking, prepare some creamy mashed potatoes. Spread a layer of mashed potatoes on one of the cakes and top it with the second one. Use the remaining mashed potatoes to “frost” your cake. Cut a few cherry tomatoes in half and use them to decorate the top.

Serve Spaghetti As Desert
Since your serving cake for dinner, it only makes sense to eat spaghetti for dessert. Place a slice of pound cake on a plate. Spoon some softened ice cream in a pastry bag with a thin round tip. Pipe the ice cream over the pound cake in a swirly motion to resemble spaghetti noodles. Freeze for about 15-20 minutes to allow the ice cream to harden back up. Top with strawberry jam as tomato sauce and a few coconut flakes to resemble Parmesan cheese.

Don’t Forget The Drinks
Meals like these deserve a fun twist on a beverage as well. Prepare some lemon Jell-o and pour it into glasses. Add a straw and let it set. It will look just like a glass of lemonade. You can even decorate the glass with a slice of lemon.

Have fun with these creative April Fool’s recipes this April 1st. They are sure to make your family smile. Enjoy!
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Want more family friendly recipes and crafts ideas? Visit Dine Without Whine for a sample weekly menu plan your entire family will love and www.kinderinfo.com for tons of kids craft and activity ideas that are sure to keep your little ones entertained.

The Delicious Aroma of Homemade

fTimes have changed and so has cooking. There always seems to be a time shortage in our lives these days and it shows in the meals we serve our families. Even during holiday times, do we take the time to bake from scratch or just pick up a packaged roll of dough and convince ourselves we’ve taken the time to bake with our kids?It’s too easy to just pick up a pre-packaged ready to bake product.

Do you remember when you were little just how wonderful the house smelled as mom or dad was baking a batch of cookies or a cake from scratch? Wouldn’t you like to give your kids those same memories? Well then, how about you plan for say this weekend to bake something totally from scratch, cookies, cakes, biscuits anything as long as you make it from scratch. In fact, I’ll help you along by giving you this quick receipe from Homebaking.org for buttermilk buiscuits.

Perfect Buttermilk Biscuits

Makes 8 biscuits; 2/3 cup fruit butter
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 10 minutes

Biscuits:

2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ½ cup Land O Lakes Butter, cold ¾ cup buttermilk*
1 tablespoon Land O Lakes Butter, melted

Fruit Butter:

½ cup Land O Lakes Butter, softened
3 tablespoons of your favorite fruit preserves (peach, strawberry, raspberry, etc.)

For Biscuits:
Heat oven to 450°F. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl; Cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in buttermilk just until moistened. Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; knead about 10 times or until smooth. Roll out dough to ¾-inch thickness. Cut with 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter. Place 1 inch apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Brush biscuits with 1 tablespoon melted butter. Bake for 10 to 14 minutes or until lightly browned. Fruit Butter:
Stir together 1/2 cup softened butter and preserves in a small bowl until well mixed. Serve warm biscuits with fruit butter.

Savory Herb Biscuits: Omit salt. Substitute ¼ to ½ teaspoon garlic salt and stir in 1 tablespoon fresh or 1 teaspoon dried herb (dill weed, chives or crushed rosemary leaves). Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits: Omit salt. Stir in 2 tablespoons sugar and ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon with flour. Stir in 1/3 cup raisins with buttermilk. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle biscuits with sugar before baking. * Substitute 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice plus enough milk to equal 1 cup. Provided by Land O’ Lakes.
Nutrition Facts: (1 biscuit plus 1 tablespoon fruit butter)
Calories: 360
Protein: 4g
Carbohydrates: 30g
Dietary Fiber: 1g
Fat: 25g
Cholesterol: 65mg
Sodium: 500mg

Now you have no excuse, get to baking and come back by and tell me how your family liked the home-baked item you chose to bake.

Holiday Baking

Baking as a hobby. As Christmas nears us alot of us start to bake. Baking Christmas cookies, Christmas Candy, and Christmas Dinner. Baking can be a very relaxing hobby if you enjoy to bake. And if you have children baking becomes that much more fun. If you love to bake as much as I do you have to go over to Cara’s blog. Cara has come out with a new ebook called Christmas cookies. Please go over and check our Cara’s new ebook.