Happy Valentine's Day!

I love this one... my favorite Valentines one.

I used beet juice to color the pink rice, and spinach to color the green rice, then put them in my heart rice molds.

I used rice cheese and my Alphabet Cutter Set (which I totally love!) to make the letters on the hearts to make conversation hearts!

Roses

I saw this done with ham, which is a little more pink, but, turkey will do.

I made little rice cylinders, and cut up sliced turkey into half circles and placed them around the rice to form a rose. I also made some extra turkey bacon,  and rolled them up into roses!

Placed in some greenery of spinach and some craisins on the side.

Spinach confetti

Triangle rice pasta, beef summer sausages that I cut into hearts, and spinach confetti, cut with a tiny heart cookie cutter!

Heart shaped eggs.

This really happened at my house.

A friend of mine posted this link on Facebook on how to make a heart shaped egg. We don't usually keep eggs in the house, as my youngest is very allergic to eggs, my son breaks out in minor hives and gets a stomach ache, and I also get violently ill for a few days if I have straight eggs, however in baked goods they don't seem to bother me... but I don't bake a lot. My oldest daughter does love eggs though and every now and then I will get some for her and she will make herself over-hard eggs for breakfast, and likes to try her hand at omelets.

After I saw the link though, I knew I just had to try this! So I bought our every few month purchase of a dozen eggs and knew I would have to take more time in this effort.

Step one... I had to google how to hard boil an egg because I don't think I've done that in years. It seems a bit nerve wracking with all the rules and the color change and the shells cracking, but amazingly, they turned out pretty awesome. I had collected the rubber bands and cut my half and half box apart for the molds, and we always seem to have chop sticks around, except mine were square. As you can see by my photo, the round chop sticks would end up with a nicer heart.

So here they are, a bit lopsided and awkward (kinda like me!). It was fun, a great learning experience, and easier than I actually thought it would be!

Tiny Dancers?

In my head, they are dancers with spinach costumes. The
clementines are unsure...

I got a vote of Adam and Eve and cavemen... 

National Trivia Day

Today is National Trivia Day and National Spaghetti Day. Did you know statistics show that kids eat 62 pounds of pasta each year-more than any other age group? 

Gluten free spaghetti noodles with honey cranberry chutney topped with a spinach question mark.

Afternoon snacking

I was excited for Holiday break as I was going to make some snacking platters for the kids that I couldn't make into boxe-able lunches.

Another veggie Christmas tree! Veggies are so much more fun to eat when they look like a tree.

snap peas and spinach for the tree; sliced turkey, dried cranberries, carrots for the ornaments; clementine for the star. 

Life! Do you hear me? Give my creation life!

Frankenstein's Monster.

Blended some arugula, garlic, spinach and oil together and mixed it in with the rice to make it green (and tasty!). Olives for the eyes, and I cut out some nori for the hair, scar, and mouth.

Monsters in Mire

Halloween season is upon us... time for creepy food! I sautéed some garlic in oil and then blended the heck out of some  leftover spinach, arugula and broccoli before it went to waste,  then mixed it with cooked up mung bean noodles for the mire. These are the big all beef hot dogs from Costco (thanks to my mom!), I made little diagonal slices in the hot dog and cooked them, which led to this monstery look. Fun, super easy and the kids love it. 

First Lunch

First day of school, trying to make lunch fun. I had a couple of rice molds and cut some spinach into shapes.  Not my most creative, but I think it will do for now. Also included is corn tortilla chips, golden raisins with a little piece of chocolate we had left over, carrots, and corn on the cob.