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Guest Post: Muffin Tin Snacks on the Go

Guest Post: Muffin Tin Snacks on the Go

My friend, Brette Sember, has a new cookbook out! In The Muffin Tin Cookbook, she shares recipes for appetizers, side dishes, entrees, and dessert — all made in muffin tins. Today, though, she’s here to talk snacks. Here’s Brette. ### My kids are in their teens now, but I swear I still have crumbs at the bottom of my purse from all the snacks I’ve packed over the years. I’m still hitting the pantry for portable snacks before picking up youngest from school and shuttling him to lessons, practice, meetings, and medical appointments. Easy on the go snacks are like gold in my kitchen. But I don’t want anything packaged, processed, or that is not “real” food. My solution is to cook snacks in my muffin tins. Yes, muffin tins. Not only do they allow you to make individually portioned snacks, but silicone muffin tin liners are non-stick, colorful, and reusable—the perfect way to transport snacks. Muffin tin cooking is a great way to get kids interested in cooking and eating healthy foods, too. They love choosing the liners, arranging food in the cups, and seeing the transformation when it comes out of the oven. There’s something about food that is...

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Homemade Hummus

Homemade Hummus

It kind of blows my mind that so many people buy hummus out of the refrigerator case. But then it occurred to me that maybe it’s because that’s the only hummus they’ve ever had. Maybe they don’t know how easy it is to make! The first time I had hummus it was homemade by a woman who was hosting a toddler playgroup at her home and she graciously shared the recipe. I’ve been using it ever since. I daresay, that was before hummus was even sold in most stores, so if I wanted to have it again, making it was my only option. (And that toddler I was attending with? Starts college in January!) Easy Hummus 2-15 1/2 oz cans garbanzo beans (or prepared dry beans, see below) 3 tablespoons tahini 1/2-2/3 cup lemon juice 4 large garlic cloves, pressed 1 teaspoon cumin powder salt Drain beans, reserving some liquid. Put beans in food processor with tahini, 1/2 cup lemon juice, garlic and cumin. Process until smooth, adding a little more lemon juice, some of the reserved liquid, or water if necessary. (My husband thinks it’s too lemony if I use lemon juice; I like it that way –...

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Homemade Gluten Free Pizza Crackers

Homemade Gluten Free Pizza Crackers

After reading my true confession about Cheez-Its, Amanda from High Prairie Homestead took pity on me and sent a recipe for homemade cheese crackers. I guest posted about making a gluten free version of Cheez-Its for Little House in the Suburbs, but while I was at it I decided to experiment with a gluten free pizza flavored cracker. For all of you people thinking “Crackers?? Is she crazy? Who has time for that?” let me tell you that my sixteen-year-old has taken to making homemade crackers. By himself. With no help from me. And the last time he did, he insisted that his older brother come watch, just so he could show him how easy they were to make. (Note that older brother was much more interested in how they tasted than how easy they were to make.) It took me about 15 minutes to get these ready to go into the oven. To make them with regular flour, just replace the sorghum and coconut flours with 1-cup all purpose flour (unbleached, of course). Homemade Gluten Free Pizza Crackers makes enough to last two teen boys about ten minutes ½ cup sorghum flour (plus more for rolling out dough)...

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Win a PlanetBox Lunch Box!

Win a PlanetBox Lunch Box!

If you send kids off to school every day, you know just how hard it is to pull together a zero-waste lunch. And if you’re trying to skip plastic? That doubles the difficulty. Enter PlanetBox! Made of stainless steel, the hinged lunch box opens to reveal five individual compartments of various sizes. It kind of resembles an institutional food tray (or, to date myself, one of those old fashioned TV dinners!). The raised compartments in the lid allow you to fill the bottom tray generously and still close the lid. When closed, each food is sealed into its separate compartment, keeping the sandwich from touching the fruit for finicky eaters. The one drawback to the compartments is that the space where a sandwich would fit is pretty small. The grainy bread we eat comes in slices too large to fit in there. Slip the latched PlanetBox into an insulated carrying bag and kids are all set for a zero-waste, environmentally sound lunch break. The carrying bag has two pockets – one will fit a water bottle and the other has a flap that closes with velcro. The simple styling of the PlanetBox will last a kid through years of...

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Kris Bordessa has been gardening for most of her life. She's been authoring books and writing features for the past ten years or so. It's about time she combined the two, don't you think? [More about the author]