Sparkle Kitchen
Explore a world of culinary delight with our Sparkle Kitchen category. Discover mouthwatering recipes, cooking tips, and kitchen adventures to satisfy your appetite and spark your creativity in the kitchen.
Sparkle Kitchen: Cashew Butter
Making homemade nut butter is so easy that it will make you question why you haven’t been doing it for years.
Nature School Project: Nettle and Cauliflower Casserole
Wild edibles are nature’s gift of free food. The original super foods packed with vitamins and minerals and that little bit of extra wild energy.
Sparkle Kitchen: Watermelon Slushies
With only three ingredients (and one of those is optional, even!), these watermelon slushies are an easy to make, naturally sweet cure for the heat-induced grumpies.
Nature School Project: Evergreen Tea
There are many reasons to make a steaming cup of evergreen tea. The warmth alone can be the reason on a rainy day to give comfort to cold fingers and chilly bodies.
Sparkle Kitchen: Rustic Peach Tart with Raspberries and Thyme
There’s definitely something enchanting about peaches in late August. Whether you pick them from the orchard or the grocery store, their sweet, heady smell is one of summer’s last gifts.
Sparkle Kitchen: Berry Grunt!
Blueberry Grunt is a dish from Nova Scotia, where blueberries are really abundant. It’s clever and easy, and it’s comprised of dumplings, boiled in a sweet berry mixture.
Sparkle Kitchen: Ship's Biscuits
“Ship’s biscuits” are historically a type of cracker made of simple, inexpensive ingredients — our version is hardly hard, and it’s hardly plain. It’s buttery, soft and DELICIOUS.
Sparkle Kitchen: Lemon Meringue Quinoa Granola
This is the most unique granola recipe I’ve ever tried. It’s crunchy and lemony and sweet.
Sparkle Kitchen: So Much Kale!
Kale for breakfast. Kale for lunch. Kale for dinner. And even kale for… dessert? This is what to do when you have too much kale: find as many ways as you can to prepare it.
Sparkle Kitchen: What's Your Favorite Hot Dog?
We generally eat the same-ole-same-ole hot dog – you know, with ketchup and mustard. And maybe some sauerkraut. But we were feeling adventurous — inspired by the Martin & Sylvia story "The Cook Out."
Sparkle Kitchen: Eating Red, White & Blue!
Inspired by our dear M & S, we added some red, white and blue to our week — just to pump up the patriotism (and bring some smiles for momma’s creativity)!
Sparkle Kitchen: Colorful Rainbow Pops
It’s hard to be grumpy when surrounded by all the bright and beautiful colors of the rainbow! And it’s impossible to be grumpy when you have a rainbow popsicle in your hand!
Sparkle Kitchen: A Trip to the City (Ethiopian Food!)
We made traditional Doro Wat and Gomen Wat and Missir Wat and even Injera, all here for you to try!
Sparkle Kitchen: Homemade Iced Lemon Mint Tea
Tea, when made with the right ingredients, truly does have the power to help and heal.
Sparkle Kitchen: Muesli (Easiest Breakfast Ever)
Made with oats and yogurt, both dried and fresh fruits, and served cold, muesli is really delicious. Best of all: it's EASY.
Sparkle Kitchen: Bierocks
A bierock (also called a “runza” in some parts of the world) is a meat-and-cabbage filed pocket pastry with Eastern European origins. They’re delicious, they’re filling, and they can totally be eaten one-handed. Follow the directions from the Sparkle Kitchen to make your own!
Sparkle Kitchen: Breakfast Burrito Bar
The next time you’re faced with a sleep-over’s worth of hungry, tired kiddos, why not try a breakfast burrito bar?
Sparkle Kitchen: Cinnamon Honey Snowflakes
These cinnamon and honey “snowflakes” — cut from regular tortillas — are not only appropriate for the season, they’ll leave your kitchen smelling warm and cozy, too.
