Category Archives: Kids

The Top 15 Posts of 2015

To say so long to 2015, here’s a quick roundup of this little blog’s most popular recipes throughout the year!  Thank you all for your continued support of this endeavor. May the new year be filled with new recipes, full … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Fifty

The last week, in photographs: A cookie-pie situation. This fella is taller than me these days… at the ripe ‘ole age of 10 1/2 (exactly, today). Damn. I love the color of beets… red beets, candy-striped beets, golden beets… A … Continue reading

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Day to Day Life: Week Forty-One

A peek at the last week: Fall colors everywhere! Vegetarian chik’n noodle soup for the plague-ridden folks around here early in the week… My 3-year-old niece’s Halloween costume… Teehee! Somebody likes to hang out on my bed at bedtime… A … Continue reading

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Homemade Yumm! Bowls

Although Ashland doesn’t have one, various cities here in Oregon (and even Washington now) we have a restaurant chain called Cafe Yumm, which promotes earth-friendly, healthy food. The most popular menu items are essentially glorified bowls of rice and beans, … Continue reading

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Green Smoothies

You know those folks who are ALL OVER green smoothies? The ones who tell you how delicious they are, or what a great breakfast or snack they make? I am not one of those people. Up until this recipe, you … Continue reading

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Peaches and Cream Oatmeal

At least once a week, I get a text from one of my girlfriends I’ve been friends with for over two decades. Having moved back to Kaua’i with her husband recently, expecting her first baby girl in a few short … Continue reading

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Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

Summer seems to be flying by. I could’ve sworn it was June just yesterday, that the kids were about to get out of school, not start back up again… Vincent’s going into his senior year of high school and Silas … Continue reading

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Buttermilk Blueberry Biscuits

My name is Julie Hashimoto-McCreery, I am 30 years and 1.6 months old, and I still do not know the technical difference between scones and biscuits. While there is talk of differences being lightness, or moistness, or savory(ness) or sweetness… … Continue reading

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Snickerdoodles

Guilty (but really not-so-guilty) pleasures, a list: Mac and cheese from a box (preferably this one), cheese added, eaten straight out of the pot (you know, less dishes to wash). The time between 2 and 4 AM when I am … Continue reading

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S’mores Cake with Toasted Marshmallow Buttercream Frosting

When I first met Silas, he was a not-quite-two-year-old, making a mad-dash away from his dad (my now husband) at the park beside my old apartment. Seeing this rambunctious, active, very spirited, near-two-year-old grow up into the still rambunctious, very … Continue reading

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