Category: Cooking and Recipes

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Star Wars Silicone Molds – Worth The Money?

Sophie Brown8

Do you ever look at geeky themed cooking and baking supplies and think to yourself, “it’s cool, but how much would it actually get used?” I know I do. I wondered the same thing about the new large size Star Wars ice moulds available at Think Geek. How many things can you actually create with an enormous Han Solo in Carbonite silicone mould? Turns out quite a lot…

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5 Ways to Sneak Math Lessons into Baking Christmas Cookies

Patricia Vollmer

Recently, I’ve acquired a couple of elves to help me bake Christmas cookies. My sons, ages 7 and 10, are old enough to do just about everything in the cookie baking process (with plenty of adult supervision). My youngest son loves cracking eggs, which is just the beginning of the educational value of this annual tradition. I offer to you five small math lessons that can pay dividends for any young person to have a fruitful future in cooking and baking.

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Enjoy Quality Fruits and Vegetables From the FruitGuys

Jenny Bristol

I love fruit. I really love fruit. It’s not that I don’t like vegetables, but the list of veggies that I don’t like is fairly long. That’s one reason I turn to fruit more heavily, but keeping fresh fruit in the house often requires frequent grocery runs. Plus, one word: smoothies.

So when I recently got the chance to try out the FruitGuys, I was excited. They offer a fruit/veggie subscription service where you can receive produce right to your door on a regular basis. I had a choice among fruit, veggies, or a mix. Guess which one I chose?

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GeekMom Gift Guide: Books, Books, and More Books!

Jenny Bristol

You’ve likely started your holiday shopping, or at least feel guilty about not starting your shopping. But the whole process is a lot less work since the advent of internet commerce. Books are perfect for purchasing through this conduit, since one size fits all and they aren’t that fragile. Here are the GeekMom writers’ recommendations for books to buy your loved ones this holiday season. There are a very large number of them, so be sure to click to see them all!

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Eat Like a Geek: The Neiman-Marcus Cookie Meme

Patricia Vollmer

In this installment of Eat Like a Geek, we’re going to discuss one of my family’s favorite cookie recipes, the Neiman-Marcus cookie, based on the 1996 meme. Neiman-Marcus is Dallas, Texas’s flagship department store, now throughout the United States, and starting on December 1st it will have products available through their partnership with Target department stores.
Even though it isn’t specifically a holiday cookie, I end up making mass quantities of them along with my other favorite holiday cookie recipes; they ship well for care packages to deployed servicemembers, and everyone who ever tastes one can’t get over so much flavor and richness in such a small cookie.

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Sara’s Cooking Class: Spil Games Knows Tween Girls (Part 2)

Kristen Rutherford

In Sara’s kitchen, you choose a recipe, (and they are ACTUAL recipes that you can cook IRL) and get started pulling out tools and ingredients. There’s a helping hand that will guide you through what you need to do, or you can choose to challenge yourself by noodling around on your own and figuring things out for yourself. You can view it as a way of covertly training your children to cook wonderful gourmet meals for you, while you lounge around the house reading food magazines, tearing out recipes for them to try.

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