This is yet another simple project from Art Projects for Kids blog. The only difficulty was trying to find yellowed paperbacks that we don’t want anymore. 🙂

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 […]

We have a favorite Japanese restaurant that we used to frequent (before Alex came along) that serves the most wonderful, delicious green tea ice cream we had ever tasted. I’ve always thought about trying to recreate the flavor (especially since we cannot find any similar […]

Of all the types of sushi, I decided to make hand roll sushi because it seems simpler compared to the rest and also, it doesn’t require a bamboo rolling mat (which I don’t have). 🙂 We used the following ingredients for our sushi: Nori (roasted […]

I’ve wanted to make sushi for a while now but had never attempted to because the task of making sushi rice had always seemed so daunting. It turned out to be as simple as can be. 2 cups sushi rice 2 cups water 6 tablespoons […]