Edible Crafts

 This craft is not edible, but as it uses food coloring I allowed myself to make an exception.  By some strange coincidence I came across the instructions to coloring flowers with food coloring twice this week, once in my daughter’s book and once on the web, and I really want to try doing it myself (I have to … Read More ...

Spring is finally here, bringing with it new colors, smells, and tastes.

Finally you can get out of the house, take the children for a walk, to the park or even on a picnic!

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Here are some fun and crafty spring recipe ideas from familyfun.com.

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Enjoy!

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Here are some sites that I came across while randomly searching the web for anything food art related, some are wacky, others weird, all interesting… I just had to share:

The Burnt Food Museum

Food is art

The food art gallery

Food Creation: Designing Tasteful Frictions

Jason Mercier food gallery

Food Art by Kuniko Maeda

And for dessert, here is … Read More ...

As well as “playing with my food” Â I love to visit food and cooking shops and of course I always try to visit every food festival in my area.

Here are a few food festivals that are going to be held in different areas over the next month or so…

March 15-17, 2007Â FI – Food Ingredients Asia-China
Shanghai, … Read More ...

It was my daughter’s 5th birthday party this last weekend, and it was a real success. She just invited little girls (believe me, this made it a lot easier for me). We had a fairy princess party, each little girl that came in was greeted by our fairy and was given her own crown. I planned to do crafts with … Read More ...

I have just heard about this site, and rushed to the computer to take a look. So here it is, take a look…

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/

  I know you’ll love it!

I have been so busy organizing our fairy party that I haven’t had any time for anything else. It is nearly all planned and I have 2 days to go….all I have to do now is prepare! (More about that later).

I am so grateful to brightideas.com for their wonderful site, it is so colorful and inspiring, it makes everything … Read More ...

This evening marks the start of the Jewish holiday of Purim. Purim is one of the most joyous and fun holidays on the Jewish calendar. It commemorates a time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination.

There are many fun customs to this holiday, the children dress up in costumes and go to Purim parties, Jewish … Read More ...

Just a short post to let you know what I’ve been up to. This week was my husband’s birthday, there is only one day between his and our eldest daughter’s birthday, so I was very busy baking. He didn’t have a birthday party, but I did make him the two “birthday” cakes which I traditionally make him every year for … Read More ...

Friday was my eldest daughter’s 5^th birthday. I still can’t believe it, she seems so big but at the same time is still my baby. She got lots of gifts and was the birthday princess for the day but we didn’t throw her a party, as my sister who lives in
England will be here next week for a … Read More ...