Cream Cheese Recipe

This ancient recipe is so easy and delicious we had to pass it along. In Lebanon it is called lab’-nee, and it’s often served for breakfast on pita bread. It also is delicious spread on bread with cucumbers and/or tomatoes. And then you can put olives with it…The other cool thing about making this cream [...]

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Caramel Corn Recipe

Ingredients

1 quart plain popped popcorn
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 stick of butter
1/4 cup corn syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions:
Mix brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, and salt in a microwavable bowl. Cook in the microwave on HIGH until the mixture begins to boil. Cook for about 90 seconds, then take out and mix [...]

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Summer Cooking With Kids – A Boxed Mix

Giving my child a boxed mix to make was one of the best things I’ve ever done. The boys learned:
     ~Following directions.
     ~To measure.
     ~Self sufficiency.
     ~Kitchen safety.
     ~Creativity. Ever put Butterfingers in your brownies?
     ~To live through mistakes.
     ~The joy of [...]

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Summer Apple Turnovers

Ingredients

2 apples
1 can crescent rolls
Sugar
Cinnamon
1/2 cup orange juice concentrate, thawed
Baking dish

Instructions:
Slice the apples into eight pieces. Cut out the core and seeds. (Most kids will also prefer to peel them. Actually, so do I!) Rinse the apples in water to get rid of the bits of core, seeds, and peel. Put them into a [...]

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Summer Smoothies

This recipe is limited only by your child’s imagination. In the past, we used a traditional blender to make our smoothies, but one of my boys used his Christmas money to purchase a hand
handheld blender that we all really like because there is less to clean up!
Orange Smoothie

1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup vanilla ice [...]

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