Healthy Snacks for Kids
Active kids with fast metabolisms and small-capacity tummies need a between-meal pick-me-up on a regular basis. Get ideas and recipes for snacks that keep kids going. Active kids with fast metabolisms and small-capacity tummies need a ... [... more]
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Cupcakes for Kids
Place cupcake liners in muffin tins and fill them 3/4 full until the batter is used up. Bake at the same temperature as the cake recipe and check after 15 minutes to see if they're done. Cheesecake recipes make luscious cupcakes with built-in ... [... more]
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April Fools' Day Dinner
Everyone will look at you wide-eyed when you serve dessert first. But, surprise! It only looks like dessert... Prepare your favorite meatloaf recipe as you normally would, but, before baking, divide the mixture into the two round cake pans and ... [... more]
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Family Movie Night
Schedule Family Movie Night every week and stick to it. Who knows? Maybe your eye-rolling teenagers will even start looking forward to it. So many movies--so little time. If you have trouble deciding what to watch, write your choices on slips of ... [... more]
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Cupcake Gallery
Check out these creative cupcakes decorated by Allrecipes home cooks. Check out these creative cupcakes, decorated by home cooks like you. Get the recipe! Cupcakes for Kids [... more]
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A New Leaf
Commemorate Earth Day this spring by cooking up some seasonal favorites, or start planning your own kitchen garden. Learn about "green" cleaning options for your spring cleaning chores. Surround yourself with signs of the season. Make a bouquet [... more]
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Halloween Drinks: Spooky Sipping
A big bowl of punch is the perfect prop for gory and ghastly Halloween trickery. There are lots of ways to make your party punch extra eerie! Freeze green punch in a gelatin mold along with plastic bugs, spiders and eyeballs. And place a few ... [... more]
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Grilling Pizza
Use your favorite crust recipe. For workability, divide the dough into two or more pieces and shape into balls for individual-sized pizzas. Set the dough aside to proof while you prepare your toppings. With grilled pizza, the crust is the ... [... more]
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After-School Snack Attack
It's not unusual for students to be fully booked for several hours after school. Be sure their backpacks are well-supplied with snacks that travel well and don't have to be refrigerated. Hint: keep nuts and dried fruit in your cupboard for a ... [... more]
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School Lunches: Thinking Outside the Lunch Box
Let the kids play with their food: dipping fruit, vegetables, crackers, or bread in sauces; assembling bite-size cheese and cracker sandwiches; or making tiny fruit kabobs on toothpicks. Keep fruits and vegetables small and easy to eat: grapes, ... [... more]
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Cheese Sauce Made Easy
Curdled. Lumpy. Grainy. Chewy. These are words that we never want to associate with cheese sauce. It seems so simple to melt cheese; yet, it's all too easy to achieve disappointing results if our technique isn't quite right. Once you know how ... [... more]
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Tools of the Trade
Most of the tools needed to make candy can be found in a well-stocked kitchen: A medium-sized saucepan with a heavy bottom and straight sides is a must. It should be large enough to hold 3 to 4 times the volume of the ingredients; this will help ... [... more]
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