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I’m not saying these are perfect, but I’ve run through 77 iterations of my recipe and this is the best I have made yet and I’m done messing around. I’ve tried yogurt and cottage cheese and buttermilk and all sorts of other stuff but these hit the spot and I can walk into just about any kitchen and whip these up in no time.

These are not some sort of crunchy earth muffin tree hugging whole wheat flapjack pancakes. No sir, that’s not what we are here for – this is about pancake delight, not a high-fiber diet or bonding with mother nature. This is about pleasing that little kid down in your soul (the one your job keeps trying to wrestle to the ground and strangle to death, slowly, while it smiles gleefully) and your real little kids sitting at the breakfast table with silverware in hand chanting “pancakes! pancakes!” (more…)

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Saving energy in your home is fairly easy. How much energy you save, however, will depend on how much you know about green living practices. For example, there are dozens of ways to save energy, time and money with green cooking in your kitchen.

Green cooking is a fairly easy habit. It just means cooking in such a way that you are protecting the planet. There are multiple ways to do that in every kitchen, but you should start with buying the right foods and buying them in the right ways. (more…)

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For most of us, the use of the words, “education” and “cooking” in the same sentence conjure up memories of 7th grade home economics class.

You remember don’t you? Burned fingers, egg shells in the dried out brownies, bottoms popped by the class clown who had stolen his neighbor’s dish towel, and the fire alarm, set off; at least once a year, without fail. My husband was “Home Ec. Boy of the Year in 7th grade.”

The educational value of cooking need not be confined to the middle school classroom.

There is much good to be had from establishing the regular habit of cooking with children.

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