This week the kids and I are sharing a delicious and science-ily, spooky Halloween beverage that we call Photon Potion.  We like the potion, but the beakers we serve it in have become some of our favorite glasses around the house ever since we got them

Anyway, this show is our final one for the 2011 Halloween season, but this and all of our Halloween shows will live on so you can stop by and watch them whenever you need a little Halloween in your life!

Oh, and if you want to make your own Photon Potion, check out the recipe.

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Kelly, Alex and Sophia

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This week, for our month-long celebration of Halloween here over at Two Kids Cooking, Alex and Soph are sharing our recipe for Zombie Treats.

As the title to this post indicates, Zombie Treats are really Fresh Mozzarella filled Ravioli. Making fresh pasta with the kids is fun and tasty and the kids and I show you just how easy it is.

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Happy Halloween Everyone!

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

Today, Alex, Sophia demonstrate a recipe that we recently tried from one of our favorite Party Supply sites – Birthday in a Box! We posted and shared a link to it a couple of weeks ago, though, because we were so excited.

Martian Mallows,are super sweet and super cute white chocolate covered marshmallows all decorated up to look, well, alienish!  Aren’t they adorable? Ours don’t look quite as fancy as the one’s at the Birthday In a Box site, but they were fun to make and eat.

I suggested this on the post where we shared the recipe as well, but my one recommendation when making these is this: if you can, use chocolate specially designed for melting and candy making. Tempering chocolate is just not easy. If you can’t find pre-tempered chocolate, you’re probably going to have to add extra oil to your melted chocolate to get it to the right consistency. That’s what we had to do, but it turned out perfect.

You can find the recipe here.

Enjoy the show and remember to spread the word, forward a link to you friends!

Happy Halloween Month Everyone! If you haven’t figured it out yet, we LOVE Halloween. This means that instead of the usual 2 shows per month, we’re doing 4 in October–and we’re all dressed up for all of ‘em

To start of our month-long festivities, we’re sharing our recipe for ‘Snackulas’ (half the fun of doing these themed shows is coming up with the fancy names for the recipes ). Snackulas are essentially Crostini with a fresh tomato basil topping. Honestly, of all our Halloween recipes this year–including the sweet ‘Photon Potion’–this was ALL of our favorites.

Enjoy the show and, if after watching you find yourself drooling, get the details on the recipe for Snackulas (aka Tomato Basil Crostini) here!

Happy Family Halloween Cooking Everyone!

Kelly, Alex and Sophia

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This week Alex and Soph share a recipe from Birthday in a Box! Our favorite party supply website filled with not just party supplies, but also tons of party ideas and recipes. The one we’re sharing today is simple, healthy and fun–Animals on a Log.

You’ll see we had lots of fun with this recipe and hope you enjoy!

Happy Family Cooking Everyone!

Kelly, Alex and Sophia

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Every night before Alex and Soph head off to bed they MUST have a bed-time snack. Now, I wish I could say that these snacks are always nutritionally optimized, but I cannot. Most of the time bed-time snacks are ice cream or something sweet. This is why our Orange Cream Smoothie is a popular bed-time snack, it’s sweet and cold and ice cream like.  And, since it’s made from Orange Juice, Milk, Yogurt and Ice, it’s not too shabby on the nutrition side either.

On this week’s show, the kiddies share this healthy bed-time snack recipe that is quick, easy and it does taste orange creamsicle-ish–which in my opinion means tasty!

We hope you enjoy the show and give the recipe a try.

Happy Family Cooking Everyone, Alex, Soph and Kelly

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Corn is Alex and Sophia’s favorite vegetable. We have it alot, but usually in a frozen form. This time of year, when it’s fresh and in abundance, we try to eat as much as we can…we even get a little sick of it after a time. So, to add some variety to this tasty fresh treat, we occasionally whip up some of our corn chowder.

This chowder is actually more of a soup, but it could be thickened up with some corn starch or flour…either way, Alex and I love it. Soph’s not a huge fan, but she does try it every time we make it. I think as she get’s older, she’ll come around to enjoying the deliciousness of it.

Here’s our recipe in case you want to try it on your own:

We hope you enjoy the show and the recipe!

Happy family cooking everyone!

Kelly, Alex and Sophia

P.S. In a couple of weeks we’ll have sharing a favorite bedtime snack recipe–Orange Cream Smoothies! See you then!

With record breaking heat and humidity all over the midwest this year–including our home state of Minnesota–staying cool has been a priority. Drinking lots of beverages is essential in the heat as well, and things like iced tea are perfect for keeping hydration levels adequate. Which is why this week Alex and Soph are sharing two iced tea recipes, Lemon Mint Iced Tea (from a recipe we found at AllRecipes.com), and Strawberry Iced Tea, A recipe of our very own that you can find below.

Stay cool and hydrated while you enjoy the show!

Happy family cooking!

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

In the July heat, cool and juicy melon is always tasty. This week Alex & Soph share one way we like to add a little pizazz to our melon by demonstrating how we make Melon Pops.

Our inspiration for this recipe came from: FamilyFun Magazine Whenever we’re feeling less than creative, this magazine is great for generating ideas that are family-friendly and fun. We usually throw in our own spin, but making a recipe your own is part of the joy of cooking, right?

We hope this recipe inspires you to create variations that your family will enjoy–from using a different melon, or smaller cookie cutters–get creative and enjoy the show!

Happy Family Cooking Everyone!

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

P.S. Our next episode will be up the first week in August and we’ll share some summer beverage experiments we’ve been working on–don’t miss it!

Happy 4th of July everyone! The 4th is my second favorite holiday (after Halloween), so we have fun each year coming up with food that matches the holiday . This year, the kids will be with their dad for the official day, but that hasn’t stopped us from whipping up lots of red, white and blue foods, grilling and generally just being patriotic. For our 2011 4th of July episode, we’re sharing one of our red, white and blue treats: Personal Patriot Trifles.

With this recipe, you can customize the level of cooking action you want to occur. You can go full out ‘from scratch’ or use already prepared ingredients. However involved you get, though, the end result is a delicious, berry-filled dessert that beautifully displays its patriot colors.

For our cupcakes, we used this recipe: Simple White Cake. You could, however, as previously mentioned, use pre-made white cupcakes, or a mix. The same goes for the whip cream—canned, in a tub, or made from scratch—whatever works best for you. Then, all that’s left is assembly and consumption!

Personal Patriot Trifles:
6 white cupcakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Whip Cream

First prepare your cupcakes from your mix or recipe. While the cupcakes are baking, wash your berries and slice up the strawberries.

Once the cupcakes have cooled, cut them into three equal parts. Place the first layer on the bottom of a personal sized dessert dish. Add a layer of whip cream, then a layer of strawberries. Next, add the middle section of the cupcake, topped it with more whip cream and a layer of blueberries. Finally, add the top of the cupcake, more whip cream and decorate with blueberries and strawberries as desired. Six cupcakes make 6 servings, so if you have more cupcakes, you can certainly make more

For a complete demonstration on assembly, and on the cupcake recipe we used, make sure to watch Alex & Soph on the show!

We hope you all have a family-fun filled 4th of July—Happy Family Cooking!

Alex, Sophia and Kelly

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