Category: Snacks
The Canadian Dinner Table – Easy Peasy Cinnamon Rolls
The crew here are bakers. That may be a mild term for how much all of us love to whip up and chow down on delicious baked goods. But, cinnamon rolls have always seemed just out of reach in the everyday foods department. Some recipes call for a double rise. Some…well…they just always looked way [...]
The Canadian Dinner Table – Down East Oatmeal Bread
No matter where you sit down to dinner North of 49, there are classic Canadian foods that make us all feel at home. That cozy, warm feeling of freshly baked bread takes all of us back to snowy days of childhood. A house full of the scent of baked goods just coming out of the [...]
Family Recipes to LOVE – Cheddar Zucchini Bread
We keep meaning to post this delicious recipe for pretty much the best zucchini bread EVER. But, about the time one of us has made a batch, it has disappeared before being properly photographed. This weekend, a tiny slab made it to the 24-hour mark. So, we are able to share how pretty it looks [...]
Homemade Staples – Granola Bars
When it comes to the basics that go in lunch kits, are tasty, healthy snacks and keep everyone happy in the house one of the things that always seems to go with us anywhere is granola bars. Throw them in a purse, a backpack, even a diaper bag and you’ve always got something ready when [...]
Healthy, Fun Kids Snacks – Homemade Fruit Roll-ups
While our house isn’t swimming in berries right now, we are all really craving some of that late summer goodness that is ripe blackberry or blueberry around here. I have piles and piles of berries frozen from this year’s picking and really wanted to make something for the kids that could go easily into lunch [...]
Fall Family Food – Drying Apples
Whenever I hear the words “food preservation” they always seem like code for “lots of work.” While I love the warmth and back-to-basics feeling I get when considering taking on a project, it always seems like when I get right down to it I lose the will to preserve. This year, though, I’ve been really [...]
Campout Food – Owl Smores
If you couldn’t tell, I have camping on the brain. We may never get to the actual act of setting up a tent and sleeping in it overnight this year. But, wiener roasts, ghost stories and some night star gazing are going to happen – even if it’s just in the backyard or at the [...]
Retro Recipe – Coconut Cocoa Date Balls
Editor’s Note: Lately, I’ve been going back through the OBE archives in an attempt to remember some of my favorite recipes of years gone by to remake them as I’m perpetually in a food rut. That’s when I came across this delicious treat for Coconut Cocoa Date Balls – originally published on June 11, 2008. [...]
Wayback Kid-Friendly Eats – Salad People
Editor’s Note: Is Spring Break getting you down? Are you in serious need of some food fun around your house? We’ve jumped on the OBE wayback machine all the way back to March 2008 when Christa Herrling shared her fun version of salad people with us, making everyone smile and giving us a fun project [...]
Quick Kids Recipes – Zucchini Fries & Onion Rings
Good Morning. The first Wednesday of every month is usually reserved for restaurant reviews. But, we are clocking some chill time this month in preparation for proper introductions to some new foodie folks here on Our Big Earth. In the meantime family gardens around the Comox Valley are bursting with lots of onions and zucchini [...]
Growing Sprouts
Editor’s Note: Krista Johnston of Big & Little Green fame is back with us today to talk shop about sprouts. I love sprouts on salads, in salads, as salads – and growing our own is a fun, healthy way to peek into the science of plants as well as have some yummy, fresh goodness. Krista’s [...]
Homemade Butter/Buttermilk
Today we have with us, all the way from Wisconsin, the delicious family-focused food adventures of Mom In Madison’s Denise Cusack who also writes up her foodie ways over at Cook.Eat.Think I really dig Denise for so many reasons and absolutely L-O-V-E her take on getting her little people involved in every aspect of food, [...]
Veggie Jelly Melons
Editor’s Note: As our Summer of Guest Foodies continues, I am beyond excited to bring you local mama Rosina Huber whose Nature Mama blog is packed full of nature learning, great crafting, homeschooling goodness and homestead cooking that looks and sounds so savory it’ll make you think comfort food for days afterward. Rosina and her [...]
Time to Cool Off with Peppermint Tea
Editor’s Note: I know, I know. Wednesday is food day. But, in honour of the birth of Sprouts writer Kendra Quince’s baby boy, and the fact that some cool minty tea sounds perfect during this very steamy week, we bring you Sprouts, the foodie version. Congratulations Kendra and family. Time for some leisurely back porch [...]
It's (Sort of) Berry Season
Mother Nature has not been kind in the U-Pick universe this year. The whole June-uary weather event means that berry ripening and picking is well behind schedule. But, the good news is that berry farms are starting to open and local fruity yumminess will be available for early risers for the next few months in [...]
The Farm – Cow Lips
Happy Canada Day. While you are soaking up all of the family good times in the Valley that is celebrating the nation’s birthday, we are busting out our maple leaves and saluting the cow in Canada – in honour of our Hands-On Farm Friend Popsicle. First, a few facts: – Popsicle is a Holstein, the [...]
Family-Friendly Recipes – Cherry Bread
While it may not have seemed like it here on site, I’ve been on staycation for the last 10 days or so. No packing, traveling or expense involved – just a whole lot of sleeping in, napping and working less hard than usual. With all of this “free” time, I have found myself wandering the [...]
Summer Kanten
Editor’s note: Christa and I work tandem on the food column these days. She writes the stories and I take the photos. I love Christa’s yummy un-jello Jello recipe this week. But, my family is totally not down with melon – of any kind. So, you’ll see that the photo doesn’t really look like an [...]
Raspberry Yogurt Ice Pops
Everyone keeps telling me it’s still only spring- that summer hasn’t truly arrived yet, and that we may see many more weeks of inconsistent weather yet. The boots may come out of the closet again. The SPF 45 might sit on the shelf for a week or more. The barbecue cover might be put back [...]
Freezer Muffins that Rock
Moving to the North Island has turned my family in to a trio of frequent road trippers. There are piles of friends and hot spots we’ve left behind in our former cities of Vancouver and Victoria, and we make a point of visiting often to soak up a bit of the good stuff we’ve left [...]
Kid-Friendly Power Balls
In our house, forgetting to pack sufficient snacks for a day away from home constitutes a moderate role of the dice where our little person’s diet is concerned. My son has a small-ish repertoire of healthy foods he deigns acceptable for consumption. It’s definitely enough to meet his basic dietary needs – the boy baffles [...]
Cream Cheese Penguins
If spring break is seeming as endless at your house as it is in ours, you’re likely looking for some inspiration to keep the kiddos occupied. The kitchen is always a great spot for enthusiastic little people, with lots of opportunities for mixing ingredients, getting a little messy, and watching their efforts materialize while sitting [...]
Pear with Honey & Pecans
Today’s comment challenge: What are your favourite snack foods to take on a day trip. Recipes welcome but not required:) Daylight savings has really put a spring in my step this week. All of a sudden, summer feels within arm’s reach. I bought Capri pants. I rolled the car windows down once or twice. I [...]
Creamy Vegetable Spread
Every so often there comes along an easy, healthy, delicious recipe that becomes an instant household classic. A few weeks ago, I sampled a recipe for Creamy Vegetable Spread from the November 2007 issue of Everyday Food Magazine from Martha Stewart that I had that gut feeling about. “We will make this forever!” I declared. [...]
