This project idea is from one of my favorite blogs – Art Projects for Kids. I think the most challenging part of the project for Alex was trying to tear each piece of the masking tape in half (the tape kept sticking onto itself). I […]

The Cargo Copter is a recent addition to Alex’s Lego Creator collection. All of us thought that this toy is absolutely cool. The helicopter has rotors that really spin as well as a Power Functions winch, which at a push of a button will raise […]

We were making Green Tea Ice Cream a couple of weeks ago and below are pictures of Alex adding sugar to the egg yolks and whisking them together to get the mixture ready for tempering. We still can’t convince him to try the food he […]

I ate my first spiced nuts a few years back. They tasted mildly salty and a little spicy and I thought they were pretty bland for spiced nuts and did not care much for them. A couple of years later, I sampled a local grocery […]

This is my version of egg sandwich (one that I grew up with) – tender, buttery, hard-boiled eggs, seasoned with salt and white pepper to taste, and sandwiched together with crisp cucumber slices between layers of soft whole wheat bread. Hmm…OMG! I’m drooling! Just talking […]