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

November 13, 2012Kristen 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.

Sara’s Cooking Class: Spil Games Knows Tween Girls (Part 1)

November 12, 2012Kristen Rutherford

Much as I don’t like to admit it, Spil has done extensive research into the mind of the tween girl, as well as the mothers of tween girls. The age range listed was roughly around 8 to 9 years old, and it basically said that at this age, young girls are dreaming about their “first kiss.” In my head, I had a knee-jerk reaction of NO WAY TOO YOUNG ARE YOU KIDDING. And the next thing they said was that their studies showed that the mothers of tween girls HATE this fact.

Warm Up With Delicious Recipes from the Moufflet Muffin Cookbook

November 7, 2012Nicole Wakelin

There’s also nothing quite like fresh-baked muffins on a cold day or first thing in the morning. Although there are old standards I make every year, I’m always looking for tasty new recipes. Moufflet: More Than 100 Gourmet Muffin Recipes That Rise to Any Occasion provides a selection that will keep me happily baking until Spring.

Lonely Planet’s Coffee Table Books Bring Adventure Into Your Home

November 6, 2012Jenny Bristol

Last month, Lonely Planet published two gorgeous new books that will both inspire you and decorate your coffee table. When I think of Lonely Planet, I think of travel guides that you take along on your travels. But these new books will instead plant the seed for future adventure. Great travel books include magnificent photography that evokes emotion and paints a scene. These books definitely succeed there.

Julia Child’s 100th Birthday Celebrated Online

August 15, 2012Natania Barron

If you grew up in the 80s like I did, there’s a high probability that you came across Julia Child the same way: through PBS. The ebullient and impressive host of a variety of programs, she had a way with food–a casual, almost childlike enthusiasm for great ingredients and everything French.

Eat Like a Geek: Hundred Years’ Pork

August 9, 2012Natania Barron

Today we bring you a recipe for my Hundred Years’ Pork with a complimentary history lesson, to boot!

Shrimp Chips: Weird Food to Try at Home

July 17, 2012Jonathan H. Liu

Shrimp chips are a snack that work on much the same principle as popcorn, but the appearance is different enough that it made my kids really curious.

The Unofficial Game of Thrones Cookbook

March 28, 2012Nicole Wakelin

Winter is coming. Okay, it’ s not, but the season premier of Game of Thrones on HBO is coming this Sunday night. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of the Lannisters and Starks since the first season finished up last year so there will be plenty of viewing parties this Sunday. But what to […]

Celebrate “Pie It Forward Day” With a New Cookbook

March 14, 2012Admin

March 14 — or 3.14 — is Pi Day! And this year, it’s also Pie It Forward Day, in honor of the new book of pie recipes by master baker Gesine Bullock-Prado. GeekMom sponsor Abrams gave us a chance to …

Review Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh, My!

February 27, 2012Nicole Wakelin

Cupcakes are hard to resist. Those tasty bits of cake with frosting and colorful little sprinkles on top seem to beckon with their cheery, sweet goodness. As a Mom, I almost always have them on my to do list for a party or a bake sale. Sometimes I bake the quickest thing I can manage, but it’s […]

How to Share Your Homebrew with Your Kids: Spent Grain Recipes

February 2, 2012Ruth Suehle3

Making beer is a lot like making tea. Except when you’re finished making tea, you drink the tea and throw out the leaves. When you’re finished with the first step of making beer, you put the brew in a giant bucket and throw away a massive glob of wet grains. Or do you? It’s a […]

Molly Weasley Comfort Cooking

January 9, 2012December 14, 2017Amy Kraft1

After a long winter’s day, ever wish you could just cozy up in the Burrow and have Molly Weasley whip you up a little roast chicken with mashed potatoes? Or feast in the Great Hall on some lamb chops? Now you can… with a bit of Muggle work. When I was sent The Unofficial Harry […]

Finding New Ways to Involve My Toddler in Life: The Learning Tower

December 2, 2011GeekMom4

Back in October, my mother-in-law came over and we made cookies with my two-year-old for the first time. He had a blast! He got messy, he got to stir things, he got to throw chocolate chips into the dough. He also got a sugar high, but that’s another story. The only thing I didn’t enjoy […]

Talking Turkeys: The Story Behind the Bird

November 23, 2011April 18, 2020GeekMom1

When I was young and started attending school, my mom got a job in the school cafeteria. The hours worked really well for our lifestyle. I got her at either end of the day, and she didn’t go stir crazy in the middle of it. By the time I was in middle school she had […]

Simple Gadget Love: The KitchenAid Stand Mixer

October 26, 2011Natania Barron

The holidays, in all their horror and glory, are fast approaching. And in this house, that means one thing in particular: the assembly of confections. When I started out cooking, I didn’t even have a good set of measuring spoons …

Move Over Cupcakes…It’s Time for Pancakes! OMG Pancakes! 75 Cool Creations Your Kids Will Love to Eat.

October 4, 2011Judy Berna

Maybe you’ve seen his website. Or maybe you’ve heard about him on Facebook. Maybe you saw my post about his amazing AT AT pancake a few weeks ago, here on GeekMom.com. And maybe, just maybe, you’ve been living under a rock,and haven’t been introduced to the newest thing since fancy cupcakes. In a word, it’s […]

Sweet Chic: How To Dress Up Your Everyday Desserts

August 21, 2011GeekMom1

A new book recently came across my baking radar entitled Sweet Chic: Stylish Treats to Dress Up for Any Occasionby Rachel Shifter Thebault. Now I didn’t recognize the author’s name, but if you are from New York you might know her as the owner of Tribeca Treats. Oklahoma is a long way from The Big […]

Get Cooking — George R. R. Martin Style

August 18, 2011December 16, 2017Admin

If you’re anything like me, reading books by George R. R. Martin always leave me a little hungry. Okay, starving. He can even make lamprey pie sound appealing! Ellen Henderson over at GeekMom has a great review of two sites …

Cooking Up a Storm: Group Meals for Game Nights

August 18, 2011Admin

For as long as I can remember, my gaming groups have broken bread together — whether we were playing board games, miniatures, or RPGs, we always have shared a meal sometime during the session. After more than 25 years of …

Book Review: Big Book of Cupcakes

June 20, 2011Kristen Rutherford4

Many moons ago, I used to have a little baking company called “Princess Yum Yum.” I’m using the term “company” loosely. It was me and an oven. I would make birthday cakes, wedding cakes, shower favors, home made candies and lots of other goodies, and I made some nice cash doing it. I stopped because […]

Change the Subject – I Dare You!

May 12, 2011GeekMom12

Many of our daily conversations are dominated by some combination of these four topics: Our homes, our partners, our children, and our appearance. This is particularly true for women, as social pressures drive us to focus on these things above all else. However, habit can become stifling, and it’s probably not healthy to fulfill any […]

Review: Teen Cuisine Has the Recipes, But Not All the Rules

April 26, 2011Admin

As a mom and a wife, I have always felt that one of the most useful things I could ever impart to my sons and any of their future co-inhabitants is the ability to cook and clean. (Whether they develop …

Review: Explore Molecular Gastronomy With Cooking for Geeks

March 25, 2011November 17, 2017Dave Banks

Sometime after Grant Achatz’s Alinea became popular, but before Modernist Cuisine became a surprising sellout cookbook set at $625, a healthy portion of the public gained a fascination with science in the kitchen. And while both the Chicago restaurant and …

Egg Strada: Simple Breakfast For A Crowd

March 10, 2011GeekMom3

One of my sons’ birthdays is in April and consequently always managed to fall around Easter time. Because of this, we often were stuck throwing had a big Easter breakfast/birthday celebration for our extended family. And can I just whine say that breakfast is one of the hardest meals to make for a crowd? The […]

CABIN FEVER: Funnel Cakes!

February 21, 2011Patricia Vollmer3

Recently at the grocery store, I asked my oldest son what kind of snacks he might want, and his answer was “funnel cakes like at the ball park.” Sigh. I was expecting an answer like “tortilla chips” or “Nutter Butter cookies” or something more normal like that. But in typical overachiever fashion, I said, “Okay!” […]

GeekSpawn Birthday Cakes

February 20, 2011Patricia Vollmer10

Cakerella I am not. Duff Goldman I am not, either. But I can dream, right? Hopefully my stuff looks better than what CakeWrecks posts, though 🙂 After spending about $30 on my youngest son’s first birthday cake in 2006 (that didn’t even taste that good), I decreed that I needed to learn some cake decorating […]

Taking Cooking To A Whole New Level Of Geek

February 17, 2011GeekMom

When I was a newlywed GeekGirl, I hated to cook. It was boring and I didn’t like planning out menus or looking for recipes. Those were the pre-Internet days (gasp!) and pre children days. Back then when I got home from school exhausted we went out for meals. However, as I got older I began to enjoy […]

Cook Up a Little Lovin’ in Your Oven

February 14, 2011GeekMom

Okay, I know that all of the relationship experts out there are touting the romantic properties of flowers and jewelry this Valentine’s Day. Nothing for the kitchen, they say. Nothing that will require your sweetheart to work. But this is just all kinds of awesome. I covet Le Creuset cookware. It would be a happy, […]

Make it a Chocolate Dipped Valentine’s Day

February 13, 2011GeekMom3

If you’re looking for a fun Valentine’s Day activity to do with your kids, consider a little dip through chocolate. Everything‘s good dipped in chocolate, right? My 15 year old, ever aware of a chance to eat chocolate, volunteered to help with this project. He could easily have done it all by himself, but in […]

Sweets For Your Sweetie: Homemade Truffles

February 10, 2011GeekMom

While living in California, one of my friends would hold an annual truffle party every year in early December. She would invite several friends over, provide the chocolate truffle base, and have us bring various toppings such as almonds or cocoa. We all had a wonderful time making and rolling truffles over a glass of […]

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