I have to admit, I don’t do much in the way of crafts. Yeah OK that’s weird. I can do food, but I won’t do crafts. What can I say except that I know my limitations. What does pass for crafts in my book often look more like science fair projects. I was raised weird….
How I Traumatized My Kid (I’m a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Parent)
Hey parents: not all PG-13s movies are rated alike. Just sayin’. This is foreshadowing, here. We had watched Pirates of the Caribbean on Netflix some time ago, and my then-five-year-old took that particular PG-13 movie quite well. He proceeded to watch it another 38,962 times, and made us go to the Pirate Museum in St. Augustine,…
Ginger as Medicine, Bike Wrecks, + Williams-Sonoma Juice Week
The Anti-Birthday Birthday
I wonder occasionally what part of the X chromosome I’m missing that typical girly/mom stuff just leaves me nonplussed. If you show me an article where people are squee-ing over the cutest little cupcakes EV-AR and DO’s and DON’T’s for putting together a kids l00t bag post party, I break out into cold sweats. I’m allergic…
Blueberry Maple Syrup + “Baby” Pancakes
Sweet Potato Salad + Poppy Seed Dressing
Happy Victoria Day, Canadians! You gotta love em… Somehow many have gotten this holiday that traditionally marks the “safe planting” date for frost-tender plants mixed up with the first day of summer. So if you go about Ontario right now, you see many a person in shorts and fleece jacket, and there’s always someone among…
The Science of Whipped Cream and Butter
Have you ever wondered about how cream turns into butter, or why whipped cream and butter are different? I was thinking about post ideas, when someone said “have you done butter yet?” No, I haven’t done butter. Butter is gradeschool Homesteading 101, and everybody’s got a post on how to make butter. “Yes,” says my friend….
Soft Pretzels and Pretzel Bites
Hey hey! Superbowl’s coming up, and it’s time to start thinking up snacks. But what? Hello, how about pretzels? Exactly like the giant, chewy soft ones like you get from a vendor? Okay, mine look like bites, and I prefer them that way (better for dipping!) but the only difference between these and the curly ones…
Science Saturday – pH Indicators for Kids
If you’ve ever played with natural food dyes, you might have already used red cabbage to make things the colour blue. Crazy, right? Red cabbage has an abundance of pigments (which give it the pretty red colour) which are called anthocyanins. They dissolve well in water, and react to the pH balance–the acidity or basicity–of…