Recipe Index: Kid-Friendly

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Apple Chicken Quesadilla
Apple Chicken Quesadilla
I was charged with providing lunch for several kids (ages 4, 6, 7, and 9) a few days ago and prepared for them one of my favorite quickie lunches - chicken and apple quesadillas. The kids gobbled them up, and...
Cheese Tacos
Cheese Tacos
Most kids grow up learning how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches so they can help themselves in the kitchen when they want some lunch. In our family, it was cheese tacos. It's our stand-by what-do-you-make-when-you-haven't-really-thought-about-it-in-advance lunch. There's always...
Cinnamon Toast
Cinnamon Toast
So much of our enjoyment of foods comes from the memories they evoke, don't you think? Cinnamon toast. Just saying the words and I see myself 8 years old sitting at our dining room table with assorted siblings, elbowing each...
Classic Carrot Salad
Classic Carrot Salad
Grated carrot salad has to be one of the easiest dishes in the world to prepare, as well as being pretty kid-friendly and good for you. The trick is to start with the best carrots you can find. Here is...
Crunchy French Toast
Crunchy French Toast
On a recent visit with my goddaughter Piper and her sisters Alden and Reilly, the girls surprised me one morning by making me their favorite version of French toast for breakfast - a "crunchy" French toast coated with corn flakes...
Dad's English Muffin Pizzas
Dad's English Muffin Pizzas
Back in 7th grade home-economics, the cooking segment consisted of learning how to make pizza with English muffins, some spaghetti sauce, a little cheese and a toaster oven.
Kid-Friendly Wraps
Kid-Friendly Wraps
How is it that one could eat flour tortillas for over 40 years and never once think to make them with peanut butter and jelly? Here's to the things kids can teach you. My young friends Piper (4), Alden (7...
Sesame Fish Sticks
Sesame Fish Sticks
Fish sticks don't have to come from a box; they're easy enough to make. A friend recently gave me a great cookbook for kids (thanks, Nicky!) that had this fun-sounding recipe for sesame fish sticks, just the thing you might...
Sloppy Joes
Sloppy Joes
From the recipe archive, a warm dish for a chilly day! ~Elise Just hearing the words "sloppy joe" from my mother used to send us kids into a tizzy. There was something wonderfully fun about getting to eat a burger/sandwich...
Strawberry Milk
Strawberry Milk
I bought my goddaughter Piper and her sisters the Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook for Christmas this year and the one recipe Piper (age 4) wanted to make was the "Pink Yink Ink Drink". The Yink drink calls for frozen...