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.
Easter Breakfast Round-Up: 9 Kid-Friendly Recipes
Explore 9 of our favorite Easter Recipes for kids. You'll find easy breakfast ideas, gluten-free options, and fun twists on traditional breakfast staples.
Browned Butter Hickory Nut Shortbreads
Follow the steps from Sparkle Kitchen to make your own Browned Butter Hickory Nut Shortbread Cookies. These cookies are best when allowed to cool and eaten with a warm mug of tea or a tall glass of milk.
Sparkle Kitchen: Paella
Not only does this week's paella recipe use saffron — the precious strands of which are harvested from the center of crocuses — it also cannot be made well without another key ingredient that plays a prominent role in the story — patience.
sparkle kitchen: millet crispy treats
These millet crispy treats look a lot like the marshmallow-y rice crispy treats that you probably grew up eating. But while both treats are based on crispy puffed cereal, these millet treats are not simply a knock-off rice crispy.
sparkle kitchen: "just cheese" crackers
In a nod to the cows of this story, this week's recipe is made from milk — or, rather, from milk's favorite daughter, cheese. These “just cheese” crackers have long been a cracker substitute for folks who can't eat wheat, but they're delicious enough to make for their own sake.
Sweet and Spicy "Circus" Peanuts
Long before the gooey, orange candy, vendors at traveling circuses sold “hot roasted peanuts” to nosh on as you watched the show. The recipe below is a nod to those original “circus peanuts.
Sparkle Kitchen: Post Race Snacks
Here are a few ideas for snack combinations that are delicious and satisfying after a day of heavy play. They're all three vegetarian, and (with the substitution of a gluten-free tortilla, which is easy enough to find these days), the first two are gluten-free.
Sparkle Kitchen: Orange Glazed Sweet Rolls
Making sweet rolls from scratch for breakfast is not difficult, and the actual hands-on work doesn't take that long. And these rolls are so worth it. They're so much lighter and fluffier than anything you'll find in a can.
NINE Sparkle Inspired Valentines Day Recipes
Valentine's Day is coming up and we at Sparkle want to share the love with some healthy, red-inspired recipes. We've got you covered with drinks, breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
Sparkle Kitchen: Fairy Fort Cupcakes
If you would like to inspire fairies to visit your next birthday celebration, in addition to the traditional lighting and blowing out of candles, may I suggest these fairy fort cupcakes?
Sparkle Kitchen: Steamed Artichokes
There are only two parts of an artichoke that are edible. The first is a tiny bit of tender flesh at the base of each leaf, which is best scraped off between your front teeth. The second is the heart, a tender disc buried underneath the fuzzy choke.
sparkle kitchen: cranachan
Cranachan is a Scottish dessert, through and through. In its classic form it has only five ingredients—oats, raspberries, honey, cream, and whisky — all as Scottish as a tartan plaid. To make it suitable for kids, the version below substitutes orange juice for whisky, but other than than I wouldn't dare tinker with such a classic.
Sparkle Kitchen: Collard Green Chips
While you could make that full soul-food feast in honor of MLK day, if you're still feeling a bit feasted-out from the holidays, why not bake up a batch of lighter, healthier collard green chips, instead?
Sparkle Kitchen: Honey Ginger Cough Drops
This recipe turns a natural remedy into a more portable form — a honey cough drop. While you could flavor these cough drops with anything you wanted, ginger, cloves, and lemon are three additions that will further help soothe a sore throat.
Sparkle Kitchen: Ginger Snow Track Cookies
Good gingerbread cookies typically use a combination of brown sugar and a liquid sugar, and all the molecular-level water those attract is what makes them so deliciously chewy.
Sparkle Kitchen: French Toast
You can easily make French toast by merely cleaning out your refrigerator. A few slices of stale bread, an egg or two, a splash of milk—voila!—you have French toast. For the holidays, however, we like to make a more intentional version. Find out more in this Sparkle Kitchen Recipe!
Sparkle Kitchen: Polenta
A warm bowl of polenta—for breakfast, lunch, or dinner—is the coziest thing on a cold day. It's hearty and thick and even it's golden color gently whispers, “I'm warm!”
Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar – Day 17: "Good Ol'Dog"
In this Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar story, "Good Ol'Dog," Brother and sister want to make Christmas gifts for their pets Pickles and Billbill. It is easy to think of a good gift for their kitty, but what do you give a good ol’ dog?
Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar – Day 15: "A Little Singing and A Lot of Love"
In this Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar story, "A Little Singing and A Lot of Love," brother and sister hear Momma coughing on the morning of the Hallelujah Sing Along, they decide to take good care of her for the entire day.
Sparkle Kitchen: Turkey Shepherd's Pie
On the thirteenth day of Martin & Sylvia's Audio Advent Calendar, in the story “Woodshed Theater,” Martin and Sylvia's advent card comes with costumes and an idea that transforms into a Woodshed Theater production called “The King and The Beggar Have Christmas.”
