Ladybug Salad

ladybug salad

A quickie ladybug, baby tomato salad with spinach and cilantro to get this blog rolling again. These little bugs are tomato halves spotted with nori seaweed using a simple 1/8" paper punch. The seaweed just needs to bet wet a wee bit to stick on the bugs. Cute and easy, a sweet little side dish to get you into Spring.... … [Read more...]

Pink Pancakes and Butter Curls

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Yep, I'm so behind in my whole life. Still working on that to do list from 2004. So, 2 weeks after Valentine's I finally made these pink pancakes from a mix I got to surprise the kids on V-Day. They were very surprised to get them this morning! haha! I have the little picks available in my shop and I used this cute cow … [Read more...]

Coming up in Viv Magazine!

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So I had the chance to do an article and shoot with Viv Magazine about my foodie creations and how I started the whole thing. I'll let you know when it comes out. I put a few pics here from the shoot day. It was so much fun. The little babies are just mini cheese heads on inari with sesame seed eyes and red pepper teeny … [Read more...]

Happy National Peanut Butter Day!

mini pitas

Hey, who says pb&j has to be a snooze-fest?? My kids like mini pita peanut butter and jelly sammiches, super fast. Here I added beets, snap pea crisps and a big orange cracker to go totally go overboard, haha! … [Read more...]

Valentine’s Coconut Rice and Heart Egg

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I've made pink rice several different ways. There are plenty of food dyes, even natural ones. If you want to go totally cheap and natural you can add a little beet juice after cooking the rice. This rice has coconut milk, soooo yummy! Rice makes 2.5 cups For stovetop, combine: 1 cup white rice, 1 1/4 cups … [Read more...]

Valentine’s Day cards!

5x7 Folded CardView the entire collection of cards. 5x7 Folded CardView the entire collection of cards. Cute food Valentine's Day cards will be in my shop on Jan. 14 (monday), yahoo!! Stay tuned! … [Read more...]

The Cow Jumped Over the Cheese Moon

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Simple black rice (called Forbidden Rice) with buddah and salt. I hand cut out the cow and moon and added olives for his spots. Pretty easy =) … [Read more...]

Love is in the air!

elephant salad

I don't know about you, but now that the tree is down, I'm getting excited for Valentine's day. I'll be posting some new ideas to treat your loved one. This is a simple salad with elephants shaped from hard boiled eggs. Asian Sesame Dressing on the side ;) … [Read more...]