E.S. Ivy

author of middle grade books for children

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Happy Independence Day!

3 July, 2015 by ES Ivy

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Start your Independence day off right with some patriotic waffles! Whip cream and berries. Mmmm….

You do know how to make fresh whip cream, don’t you? It’s so easy, and so delicious! So I thought I’d quickly find a link to a recipe on-line of how to make it.

To my surprise, the first 5 recipes aren’t like I do it. The first three do it with a hand whisk. Um. No….

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Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey Recipe

19 November, 2013 by ES Ivy

Little kids won’t really go for the fancy fruit salad  with Jello and cottage cheese that your Great Aunt Ida always brings to Thanksgiving dinner. This Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey recipe is an easy way to make plain fruit look fancy. It’s also a great way to take fruit to a Thanksgiving class party.

Don’t worry if it’s not perfect! As I’ll show you at the end of the post, it will turn out great even if you’re not too persnickety.

But, if you’re picky, the trick to making fruit arrangements is to use uniformly shaped pieces. This may mean that you won’t use all the pieces that you cut from each fruit, so always have extra. The left-over pieces are perfect for rewarding your kitchen help and tiding them over until the big meal….

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Jack O’Lantern Quesadillas

31 October, 2013 by ES Ivy

Happy Halloween! I’ve got a quick and easy Halloween recipe for you.

I don’t know about you, but we need something fast for dinner on Halloween night. And it needs to be something that the kids will eat without a fuss.  Here’s a fun recipe for dinner or a Halloween party snack, jack o’lantern quesadillas. (Can you believe that WordPress doesn’t know how to spell quesadilla? There are red underlines all over this post!)…

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Goblin Fruit Kids Will Gobble Up

17 October, 2013 by ES Ivy

halloween fruitBefore you send you little ones to stuff their pumpkins (and then their faces) with candy, put something a little more healthy in their stomachs – goblin fruit faces!

If you’re a child of the 70’s, maybe you remember the “pear salad” your mom made you eat?…

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The Best Avocados, how to pick, store, and freeze them

21 February, 2013 by ES Ivy

So I’m still trying to find my way into what I want to blog about. It’s a good thing I added the category “cooking.” Otherwise this would have to go under “posts to keep me from giving advice to random people in stores.” 🙂 I just hate to see someone an inferior product. I know they would really like for me to share my advice. I just know it….

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