Baked Pancake Bites

Ever since I made the Heart Shaped Baked Pancakes, Kidlet has been begging me to make them again! I was happy to oblige because they are so very easy to make. I added a little nutmeg to the batter this time and they tasted just like donut bites! Yum!

Main Compartment: Pancake Bites and syrup
Large Side Compartment: Strawberries and  blackberries
Small Side Compartment: Morningstar Farms sausage patty

Baked Pancakes

• Ingredients

  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • 1 cup All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 TBSP sugar
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg

• Instructions 

  1.  Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Whisk together all ingredients until well blended. May be a little lumpy.
  3. Pour batter in to greased muffin tins, standard size or mini.
  4. Bake for 10-15 minutes for standard sized muffins and 6-8 minutes for minis.
  5. Cool slightly before removing from tins. Serve warm plain or with butter and syrup or jam.
  
  
  
  
  

Shamrock Fun!

St.Patrick's Day is not too far away now! Time to put on our thinking caps and make some cute green foods!

I added a little green food dye to my favorite bread recipe and used my FunBites Cube-It to make some cutesy sandwich stacks!

Main Compartment: Sandwich Skewers
Large Side Compartment: Strawberries, carrots, bell pepper, cucumber, and blackberries
Small Side Compartmant: Mustard and small container of dip for the veg

Main Compartment: Peanut butter pot of gold sandwich with homemade cheese crackers
Large Main Compartment: Carrots, cucumber, and dip
Small Side Compartment: Strawberries and blackberries

Stuff Used in these lunches:

Meatless Monday: Week 4

Welcome to Meatless Monday Week 4! Thank you to everyone who has been linking up so far. Please feel free to link up any vegetarian or vegan posts below!

Kidlet has a soy ham sandwich cut in to small squares with cheese on top. On the side are carrots, and strawberries.

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Red Dwarf: Mr.Flibble Lunch

We've been working our way through all of the seasons of Red Dwarf and just stumbled upon a very hilarious episode involving a penguin puppet called Mr.Flibble! We still can't stop laughing about it!

Main Compartment: Two peanut butter and jelly penguins and a magic carpet made of natural fruit leather.

Large Side Compartment: Strawberries and grapes

Small Side Compartment: Peppers and a jicama H

Here's a little clip of the episode involving Mr.Flibble!

A Star Wars Valentine

The big day is finally here and what better way to celebrate than with a geeky lunch? And what is even better than just one geeky lunch? Many geeky lunches! Follow along with me and my Edible Geekery buddies. Just click the button at the end of my post and check out the next lunch and keep following the buttons!

Main Compartment: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with cheese accents and pretzels

Small Side Compartment: Strawberries

Large Side Compartment: Mini Sweet Peppers

Check out the nerdiness happening over at Veggie Bento!

7 Valentine Lunches For Your Sweetheart!

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day! Still need some ideas for a love filled lunch? Check out our past lunches for some inspiration :)

1.) Heart Shaped Pretzels

2.) Hearts and Squares 

3.) Heart Shaped Sandwich

4.) Signed, Sealed, Delivered

5.) Heart Shaped Baked Pancakes

6.) Pull-Apart Heart Rolls

7.) Valentine Salad

Heart Shaped Baked Pancakes

It's Shrove Tuesday which of course means we must eat pancakes! I got the brilliant idea of baking them in a silicon muffin pan from my buddy Debby at iPackLunch. You can check out her delicious recipe there! I used a mix for mine since it is what I had on hand and it worked out deliciously as well!

Main Compartment: Baked pancakes with dark chocolate chips and syrup

Small Side Compartment: A cut up Boca Chik'n Patty

Large Side Compartment: Grapes and Strawberries

Stuff Used In This Lunch:

Meatless Monday: Week 3

It's that time again! Another Meatless Monday of course :) Thank you to everyone who has been linking up with us so far! It's wonderful to see all of the meat-free tasties! Feel free to link up any Vegan or Vegetarian posts!

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Valentine Salad

Need some ideas for Valentine's Day? How about a delicious salad :D Kidlet loves to have a big salad for lunch and I thought I would cute it up a bit!

Main Compartment: Salad greens with orange peppers, tomatoes, and jicama hearts.

Small Side Compartment: Boca Chik'n Patty slices

Large Side Compartment: Grapes

Kid Made Lunch

Today's lunch was packed by Kidlet! While bento is generally a labor of love from me to the Kidlet, I like to let him in on the fun sometimes too! I let him loose in my bento stash and it was very interesting to see what he picked and how he put together his meal!

Kidlet chose his Lunchbots Uno and packed a Boca Chik'n patty sandwich in the shape of a train, grapes, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, dip, and some pretzels. He even chose his own napkin in this cute robot print!

I had a lot of fun watching him decide what to put in his lunch and I think he did a fantastic job!

Live Long and Prosper!

Another lunch made with our beloved Star Trek Cookie Cutters!

Main Compartment: Two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

Small Side Compartment: Grapes

Large Side Compartment: Sweet Peppers and dip

Meatless Monday: Week 2

 Welcome to week 2 of Meatless Monday! Please join us and link up any meat free meals you've made!

It's been so very cold here that Kidlet has been requesting hot lunches quite a bit. This one is Rice-A-Roni in the thermos, peppers with dressing, strawberries, and a Chobani Champions squeezy yogurt

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International Fake Mustache Day

Today is International Fake Mustache Day! Who doesn't like that? :) I made Kidlet a special Mustache lunch to celebrate the occasion! We're also doing a fantastic Mustache Day Hop! So click the link at the end of my post to see the next lunch!

Main Compartment: Peanut butter and jelly Panda with a mustache and pretzels

Small Side Compartment: Strawberries and salad dressing

Large Side Compartment: Salad

Check out the next awesome lunch at A Boy and His Lunch

Pull-Apart Heart Rolls

So, my first reaction to the FunBites Luv It was "what the heck am I ever going to use THAT for?!" I have absolutely not patience for arranging my food in tiny tangrams and I don't think it would thrill my 12 year old the way it might some pre-schoolers! After mulling it over for quite some time I struck an amazing idea! Pull apart rolls!

Yeah, that just happened! The FunBites is perfect for making cutesy rolls. They cut out nicely and the plunger part plops them on to the baking sheet in the right shape!

Now, I just used my favorite roll recipe which I will detail for you below but I imagine you could use refrigerated dough or your own favorite roll recipe! Or biscuits....or cookies...so many delicious possabilities!

Pull-Apart Rolls

1/2 cup milk (I use skim)
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons butter
3 packages (or 6 3/4 tsps.) of dry active yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water
5 – 6 cups all-purpose flour

1.   In a small saucepan, stir milk, sugar, salt and butter together. Heat over low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Cool until lukewarm.
2. Dissolve yeast in warm water in warmed mixer bowl. Add lukewarm milk mixture and 4 1/2 cups flour to yeast mixture, and using a dough hook if you have one. Add the rest of the flour by 1/2 cup until your dough forms a ball. Knead with the hook until it pulls away from the sides. I don't have a dough hook so I use the paddle and just fop it around on high speed until it looks like dough 
3.  Place dough in a greased bowl, turning it to grease the top. Cover the dough with a clean, dry dish towel, and let it rise in a warm place for 20 minutes (may be longer if it's cold where you are!) 
4. Roll the dough out to about 1/2 inch thickness and cut in to shapes. Place shapes on a parchment lined baking sheet, cover with a cloth and let rise for 20 minutes. 
5. Pre-heat oven to 425. Bake for 7-10 minutes until golden brown. Brush the tops with melted butter!

 
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