Main Street Mommy

National Pancake Week is February 19-25.  My kids LOVE pancakes, so National Pancake Week is certainly worth celebrating in our house!   We love experimenting with different flavors and syrups, but plain pancakes can be dressed up with a little food coloring.

To make these, start with a bowl of batter, uncolored.  Make a pancake (or 2), then add a drop of food coloring to your batter.  Repeat this until all of your batter is gone.

You can do this with …

Also known as, “Cakes I see on Pinterest that I have to try”:

I think the outside of the cake was a total success – easy to create and pretty to look at.  I might need a little practice with the inside of the cake (it looks more like a chevron than a heart), but my kids were impressed.

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This one was just for my little girl!…

Want a quick way to impress your kids?  Bake up a batch of these.

Ordinarily, I’m not a huge fan of processed foods.  However, sometimes I’ll give in just for a quick, fun effect.  Of course you could make these using your own bread recipe, and they would be amazing – go for it.  I, on the other hand, broke down and bought a can of breadsticks.  Fifteen minutes later I had bread for dinner & dessert.  It doesn’t get …

If you have school aged children, you’ve probably had to bring something in at some point for a Thanksgiving Feast.  These events can be as simple as sharing cornbread while dressed as Pilgrims and Native Americans or as complex as an entire Thanksgiving meal.

My sons had an entire Thanksgiving Feast on Monday.  I had to make stuffing and pumpkin pie.

My daughter has her feast today.  I hadn’t seen the sign up sheet, so I told my husband to …