Looking for the best and easy make ahead no bake Thanksgiving dessert to make with grandchildren for Thanksgiving, I looked for ice cream cakes made with their favorite oreo cookies and found two listed as the best. Each uses regular Oreos, not double stuff or other new varieties. . . but I wonder if one […]
For a Thanksgiving Dessert, Make Ahead Oreo Ice Cream Cake is the Best: Easy, Simple Ingredients, No Bake and Grandchildren Friendly
November 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment
Introduce Your Grandchildren To Ina Garten With The Easiest Delicious Chocolate Cake to make Together To Start, And As They Get Older, They Too Will Love Her Recipes Forever
October 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma was introduced to Ina Garten by a dear, long (we never say old) friend who swears by her recipes. I think she thought I lived under a rock, but really, most of my adult life, I was just an expert at making reservations. I have since learned that People Magazine calls her “the […]
How To Make Candy Coated Cake Pops Like Those Found at Starbucks At Home With or For Grandchildren
September 18, 2022 By Leave a Comment
It is dangerous to take grandchildren into Starbucks. These little balls of cake with frosting and sprinkles on a stick like a lollipop are a sweet target for them. At this link, read about how Starbucks teamed up with a company to supply their cake pops since 2010. At nearly $2 (and 165 calories each), […]
Five Tips to Perfect This Grandma’s Best Mac and Cheese Recipe For Grandchildren Anytime and For Special Occasions for the Whole Family
September 11, 2022 By Leave a Comment
When our oldest grandchildren, now teenagers, were younger, California Pizza Kitchen was their favorite restaurant, solely for their Mac and Cheese. One day, my oldest grandson, then in the single digits, said, “Mema, I wish you knew how to make California Pizza Kitchen Mac N’ Cheese so we could have it all the time when […]
Nutella Fluff or Blender Chocolate Mousse: Pick Your Easy Version to Make For Grandchildren and Just Call It Nutella Pudding
August 7, 2022 By Leave a Comment
Our four year old grandson, while visiting this weekend, made a restaurant out of Legos. I asked him what he was going to serve in his restaurant and he answered, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, lemonade, and Nutella for dessert. I asked him when he tasted Nutella, and he said in was in a snack […]
No Bake Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies and Place Cards to Make With Grandchildren
November 28, 2021 By Leave a Comment
For Thanksgivings past, the preschool grandchildren came home with Thanksgiving decorations that I have kept and still adorn our Thanksgiving table. Years past, I did arts and crafts and made leaf place cards or let the young grandchildren make place cards of their own creativity. As much as I could for holidays, I tried to […]
Easy Vanilla or Chocolate Pudding Dirt Cake Recipe Especially With Grandchildren Who Love to Play in the Dirt
August 29, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Our youngest grandchild has the largest sandbox at home created by his handy father. Nevertheless, he took his wagon, favorite excavator (he has many as he loves this construction vehicle), shovel, and went right for the dirt where his father was planting. He is always more interested in playing in the dirt. It does not […]
It Cannot Get Easier than A Fourth of July Red, White, and Blue Cake Made In Minutes For 2021 Celebration Finally With Family and Friends
July 5, 2021 By Leave a Comment
Even President Biden says it is time to celebrate! This Fourth of July 2021 is most special as many of us have not enjoyed the company of family and friends for much too long. Yes, we are all planning on barbeques, or those of us most fortunate have been invited to one where we do […]
Spring and Summer Dessert Pizza Recipes after Pizza for Breakfast
April 29, 2021 By Leave a Comment
It is hard for this Grandma to realize that I have been sharing “grandma lessons” since September 2011, almost ten years. What is harder to believe is that the impetus for this blog, the birth of my first grandchild, my oldest grandson, is heading off for college! When his mother, our oldest daughter, told us […]
The Four Ways The Pandemic COVID-19 Even Affects Our Celebration of National Ice Cream Month
July 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment
July is National Ice Cream Month. That makes sense. July is the highlight month of the summer, with July 4th and summer vacations and celebrations. This year with COVID-19 is different, but one thing is the same, the summer is the time we most crave ice cream, cold and creamy. In a previous National Ice […]
Rainbow Bread to Enjoy On Our Way to Reach “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
June 24, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Times are hard right now for all of us. There is a perfect song for this time,“Somewhere over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz. If you have not introduced the movie with the great Judy Garland to your grandchildren, Common Sense Media, my go to review website for movies, books and more, says it is […]
For A Sweet Relief From Seriousness of the Pandemic, Ice Cream Bread To Try Out For Yourself With The Leftover Rainbow Sprinkles You Cannot Now Share With Your Grandchildren or Zoom Make it With Them And More No Bake Ideas
May 20, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Pandemic Pounds. That is what I call the extra weight I am carrying around due to a sweet tooth and being home all the time to overdo. Yes, we add bakery items to our Instacart Publix shopping list. As an aside, we may never go into a supermarket again as we are getting used to […]
Valentine’s Day 2020With GG’s (Great Grandmother) Cookie Recipe or David’s Cookies
February 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma realized several years ago that greeting cards and stamps for mailing are getting so expensive that it is not much more to send something more than a card for holidays, including Valentine’s Day. I wrote a previous post about this in 2017 with ideas other than greeting cards. “When Valentine’s Day Gifts Are […]
Introducing Salad to Grandchildren Putting Fruits and Vegetables On A Pedestal First and Other Art Installation Projects
February 5, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Honoring fruits and vegetables by putting them on a pedestal never occurred to this Grandmother. It took an artist exhibiting at the Whitney Museum in New York to creatively come up with this idea. Darren Bader’s work stands alone in the gallery. “Fresh fruits and vegetables—“nature’s impeccable sculpture,” according to Bader—are presented as formal objects […]
February 5, 2020 is World Nutella Day with Secrets and Nutella Recipes Galore to Share With Grandchildren
January 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma is always surprised at some national day selections and was surprised that there was a National Nutella Day. I was wrong. The celebration, this year 2020, is February 5, and the day is actually World Nutella Day. For those of you who do not know what Nutella is, even if you have noticed […]
Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bowls Made Hard . . . Or the Easy Way . . . With Grandchildren of All Ages
January 15, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Our grandchildren love raw cookie dough. It was so difficult when we first had the raw egg scare and then the uncooked flour scare. See previous 2017 post, “Safely Making Homemade Cookie Dough and Adding It to Safe Homemade Ice Cream.” That previous post included a recipe for homemade cookie dough and then adding it […]
Fake Food Now Extends to Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese When the Real Thing is Grandchildren’s Favorite
November 13, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Grandpa and I just returned from Sicily and Malta, where farm to table is the norm. The food was natural and fresh with no preservatives, not like the United States where fake food is an art. Even just today in the newspapers, articles included discussion of hormones in meats and how most fast food chains […]
The Explosion Cake With A Special Surprise To Make For or With Grandchildren
November 6, 2019 By Leave a Comment
This Grandma makes reservations. As a working mother, I rarely cooked and never baked. My Mother, GG Frieda, was an outstanding cook and even more outstanding baker. She made all holiday meals and baked fresh bread and cakes for them until just before she died. I watched her for hours at a time, but never […]
Fast and Easy Chocolate Mug Cake to Make in the Microwave With Grandchildren
August 7, 2019 By Leave a Comment
According to the recipe for Chocolate Mug Cake reprinted in the New York Times, March 28, 2019, “if you google ‘mug cake,’ you’ll get more than 100 million results.” Amazing that google can connect with that many results in one search—and for mug cake! This Grandma loves fast and easy for any recipe to make […]
Feeding Grandchildren Dessert First Is Good Science For Grandma and Now A Scientific Study Confirms it is Good for All of Us
June 26, 2019 By Leave a Comment
When our eldest daughter told us she was pregnant, I attended a conference where there were many friends and acquaintances who were already grandparents. I asked each for what I called “grandma lessons.” Once of the first and best was to feed grandchildren dessert first. After all, spoiling grandchildren is a requirement for being a […]
