Month: November 2017

Chocolate Chip Scones

Chocolate Chip Scones

Scones are a favorite breakfast option in the cooler months for our family. The scones are definitely easier to make with a food processor, but you could certainly use a pastry cutter as well. The original recipe called for currants, but I have replaced them 

Yaki Soba (Japanese Fried Noodles)

Yaki Soba (Japanese Fried Noodles)

My son recently fell in love with this dish when he ate it at a Japanese friend’s house. Yaki means fried, and soba is a buckwheat noodle, but in this dish, it’s more of a Chinese type of noodle. Simply sauté vegetables, traditionally onions, cabbage 

Easy Tomato Soup

Easy Tomato Soup

Now that the weather is getting colder, I try to make a large batch of soup on the weekends for the upcoming week. In general, many soup are pretty easy to make but tomato soup is one of the easiest soups, if you always have 

Banana Bread

Banana Bread

My kids don’t really eat bananas but they do love banana bread. Banana bread is a great way to use up those ripe bananas; the bread actually tastes better, the riper the banana. They tend to eat this for breakfast so I’ve reduced the sugar.