On the heels of all kinds of vegan goodies now I am bringing back eggs, cheese and bacon. All together in one happy frittata. The apples add a little sweet with the savory. A winning combo. With school ending soon and the weather heating up we want lots of protein to burn. Nothing like a serving of eggs to jumpstart your morning…or any time. Breakfast for dinner is common over here these days.
Frittata’s are great for entertaining, brunch, lunch, dinner or mini-meals. Use any cheese you have on hand to accent the fluffy ricotta. I love sharp cheddar and gruyére. My kids prefer more the more mild flavors of mozzarella, munster and american cheese. Mix it up and have fun. We love a batch of my Almond Chickpea Cookies as a side.
Many of my blogger buddies have been publishing cookbooks lately. I am so proud of them. This is such an exciting time for bloggers as they get more and more popular on social media and everywhere. Blogs are leading to books, TV gigs, brand ambassadorships and so much more. I am thrilled to be on the frontlines of everything social media has to offer. Each day I wake, I wonder what is around the corner. Though I want to peek into the future I know it is best to keep my heels firmly planted in the now.
Speaking of bloggers and cookbooks…today I am happy to spotlight The Whole family Cookbook by Michelle Stern. She publishes the blog What’s Cooking with Kids. Michelle’s focus is on helping kids find a connection with the food they eat, where it comes from and how to cook it. She is the founder of the children’s school called What’s Cooking where she teaches families about healthy foods and cooking.
On Michelle’s blog she states “Cooking with kids is about more than simply putting food on the table; it’s about enriching your lives. It builds lifelong memories, lays a foundation for healthy lifestyle choices and provides numerous learning opportunities for kids and adults alike.” I love this philosophy and it is one that I share. What sets her book apart is not only the wonderful & diverse recipes but she labels each of them with age appropriate tasks so you can include the whole family.
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This giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Carrie from Poet in the Pantry.
I am proud to offer a copy of this book to one friend of MarlaMeridith.com. All you need to do to enter is leave one comment or more on this post. What do you like to cook with your kids? For additional entries you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and/or sign up for my email updates. Easy peasy. Just leave a separate comment per entry please. This giveaway is open to USA readers and will close on Saturday, May 14th at midnight PST. Winner will be chosen at Random.org.
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Frittata Recipe Links
- Asparagus Frittata Nutmeg Nanny
- Country Frittata with Ham, Cheddar and Basil Comfort of Cooking
- Kale Artichoke Frittata A Couple Cooks
- Shiitake Frittata Squares with Prosciutto The Galley Gourmet
- Spinach Egg White Frittata with Feta Cheese The Novice Chef
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Looks like a great book!
My son and I love to make smoothies together!
Danielle, smoothies are so fun to make with kids . We love to throw all kinds of fruits, veggies, nuts, yogurt, seeds, natural sweeteners, chocolate, jams, etc- the sky is the limit with these!
Anything – they are fun, and I just like to be with them. Little one is very little so she likes to do dishes, but the big one is almost 6 and she likes to mix pico de gallo.
Kristy, any way we can involve them in the kitchen is a great thing. Little kids= small tasks. Bigger kids= more responsibility. I love watching their capabilities change as they grow. Sounds like you have it wired, especially with the dish washer 😉
I like to cook healthy snacks with my stepdaughter using fruits and vegetables. It takes her mind off M&Ms. 🙂
Erin, speaking from experience it is very difficult to get those minds off of M&M’s. But we can try 🙂
Wow ah! What a fabulous combination! As a newly created fritatta lover this definitely caught my eye 😉
I love cooking with my kids! It’s so important to teach them where the food on your table comes from. My boys help with everything from salads to cookies.
Alison, first of all I gotta tell you how much I love your headshot. So pretty! My kids also help with everything. The process is fun even if they ultimately get too picky to eat it.
I love reading and sharing your ideas. Thanks also for the new website about home grown cooking with kids. A new organic farm has just started in our community about a year ago. This would be perfect.
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It would be wonderful to have a copy of this book! My husband and I are expecting, and are looking forward to cooking lots of delicious vegetable dishes using local produce that we receive from our CSA (community supported agriculture) with our little one.
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My oldest is just 20 months old, but I love getting him to try new things. I actually find it odd when we go places with other families and the moms look at me wondering why I’m feeding him black olives off my salad or a pickle off my sandwich. They just assume their kids wouldn’t like them so they never try! Huge pet peeve of mine:)
If I have a kid I have visions of baking cookies together as I did with my mother. Marla, your photos are really terrific!
That frittata is splendid! I love that combination of ingredients. Just up my alley.
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Rosa
That frittata is lovely! I like how you can go back and forth with different styles of cooking– baked goods, vegan, high cholesterol (jk). I try to do the same!
No kids yet but I can’t wait to bake yummy sweets when we do have a family.
Lindsay, those sweets are always the most fun with the kids. They can’t get enough “tasting’ in!
I love your combination of sweet and salty with this frittata, Marla! It looks SO tasty and perfect for a nice, lazy brunch. Beautiful photos, too!
mmmmm – a frittata with ricotta. you are talking my language. this books like something I am going to have to add to my library! beautiful, Marla! x
Apple cheese and bacon are really good in frittata form!
If I had kids, I’d make them kale chips! I made them for my 14 year old brother and now he requests them! It’s fantastic =)
I love your blog btw! A new reader and dedicated fan!
Hi Shana, welcome! We love kale chips too. Looking forward to seeing you around here often 🙂
My daughter always wants me to pull over a chair for her to help me cook! Her favorites are chocolate chip cookies and pancakes – at 3-1/2 she has the ingredients all memorized!
Kathy, isn’t it so cute when they pull up the chair! My little girl can finally poke her head over the counter. Right now she is spreading sauce on pizza dough. Love that your little gal has the ingredients memorized!
I don’t have kids (yet!) but I always liked making homemade applesauce with my mom.
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I love to make biscuits with them, and their “mini-biscuits”. 🙂
We love to make smoothies and pizza together with our boys. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love baking with my kids. They love measuring ingredients and cracking eggs of course!!
Leah, there is something about cracking those eggs. My kids fight over them!
I like to cook just about anything with my kids–but a full meal of lasagna, salad, and breadsticks is really fun.
Melissa, that is comfort food at it’s finest. My kids would love to visit your house!
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The frittata looks amazing and what an awesome giveaway!!
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I like to bake brownies with my child 🙂 or cookies. Or just slice her up some apples. She’s easy 🙂
Averie, your little gal is easy – we love that! It’s awesome when they consider apples a sweet treat. No doubt they love their cookies too 🙂
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My kids love to help out with making rainbow pizzas. I make the dough and shape the crusts and they top their own with an assortment of veggies that they choose, usually including broccoli, bell peppers, and tomatoes.
I already follow Family Fresh Cooking on Facebook and love it!
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Well, since my baby is only 10 months we mostly puree together, or make waffles! 🙂
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I would love to get a copy of Michelle’s new books – I’ve heard such wonderful feedback!
What a lovely frittata! We often have breakfast for dinner, and this would be perfect. My kids are all grown, but I love to bake cookies with my grandson. 🙂
Yum! Cheese and apple are such good friends in a pan. Great recipe!
Cookies! My two daughters and I have been making cookies together for years, and now that they are grown and out on their own we don’t get to cook much together anymore. But we always make time during the Christmas holiday to bake cookies together! Now we’ll continue the tradition with my granddaughter.
I’d love to add Michelle’s family friendly cookbook to my collection, and use it with my granddaughter.
Michelle, that is so sweet. I love that you and your girls have kept up the tradition of baking cookies together. I bet that is time you all cherish. Neat that you get to extend the fun to your grand daughter. My mom loves to bake with my kids too.
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Wow that bacon apple and cheese fritatta looks fantastic! I love your blog and all of your recipes! Thanks
I don’t have kids yet, but I know some of my fondest childhood memories are baking with my mom. So, when I do have kids someday, we’ll be in the kitchen, stirring up a bowl of something delecious – perhaps from the Whole Family Cookbook! 😉
Homemade Pizza Night! I love laying out the crusts on parchment and letting them add whatever veggies, meat and cheese that they want to add- The parchment contains the mess and makes it easy for me to transfer to my warmed pizza stones!
Jenny that is such a great idea you have with the DIY pizza’s on the parchment paper. So many of us don’t want the extra mess to clean up when kids join us in the kitchen, the parchment saves us from that. We love making pizza over here too. Such a fun way for kids to take control of their own “cooking.” It is fun to watch them make ingredient choices. I have also found that mine are willing to try new foods when they choose them & then get baked onto the top of a pizza.
I love the apple and cheddar combo in this! In my opinion it just can’t be beat! And I’m always up for adding apple-y sweetness to my savories! Delicious.
I don’t have kids, but when I do, I can’t wait to get them in the kitchen to bake!
My kids are a bit on the young side to help, but they enjoy dumping dry ingredients and stirring the mixture. Cookies, smoothies, bread with Grandma!
That books sounds so cool! I love the concept of including your kids in the kitchen as much as possible. I hope to teach mine everything I know as they grow up… you know when they get here.
Heather, you will be a great mom some day. You have all the tools and knowledge you need to get kids in the kitchen and eating right.
We love to bake cookies together and make pancakes and waffles.
I don’t have kiddos..yet! But cooking together is something I really look forward to most 🙂
This frittata looks SO good! Bacon, apple, and chese…mm!
Recipe sounds delicious…I love to make cookies with my niece!! 🙂
Great post, Marla! I love the addition of apple in the frittata! I don’t have kids yet…but I do cook with my niece if that counts! 😉 We love baking together and our favorite thing to make is muffins for breakfast. 🙂
Faith, baking with your niece totally counts. It’s all about getting the kids into the kitchen to experience where their food comes from. Any “healthy” connections they can make doing this is important. Your niece will remember her times spent baking with you forever! I bet you gals have a blast together 🙂 xo
This is excellent, the recipe is made healthier without compromising much of the taste. Using fat free ricotta is a brilliant idea
My kids always want to help cook, and sometimes I have been really reluctant because it’s easier to do it without them. However, I am a teacher and a health nut and know that there is no better way to learn than by experience. Now, I invited the kids to help with everything I cook–especially if it’s something new or that I am unsure if they will want to try. Having their hand in the making makes them more open to trying something new!
We love to go with our children to our local farmers market and select some of the seasons best produce and find new recipes to make with these fresh foods!
Even I am interested to get a copy of this useful book! The Cheesy bacon and apple fritatta is something really appealing. Nicely written too!
We don’t have kids yet, but my wife and I love visiting some of her nieces and making pizzas with them. They love to see me throwing the dough in the air and try to do the same with the small pizzas they are making. All in all, we all have a lot of fun with that
I don’t have kids but I do have very little cousins. And therefore I like to bake them cookies 🙂
My niece and nephew love to make zucchini bread with me. They love to put the zucchini through the food processor.
I cook with my kids all the time – there favorite is anything that allows them to lick a spoon or bowl afterwards.
Danielle, licking the bowl and the spoon is always the favorite part over here too! I always need to have multiple spatulas, spoons & whisks going at once!
I love making pizzas or kabobs with my kids. They like being able to pick the meats and veggies out that they’ll use.
We love doing pizzas together! And in the morning, we like doing egg sscramblers. Anything that I can do a little bit of prep work and then they can assemble.
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I love cooking with my kids. As they are getting older, it’s amazing what they are starting to cook on their own. My son is a grill master at 12!
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Our almost 3 year-old daughter likes to make anything with chocolate in it. She loves to lick the spoon 🙂
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looks fabulous and great book to own! Especially us busy moms..
Your food is simply beautiful!
That frittata sounds so YUM, and I can’t believe I missed those chickpea cookies! I MUST make those little gems.
My daughter adores sweet potatoes!!! http://squashblossombabies.com/2011/04/18/sweet-potato-fries/
I would love to get a copy of that book! Thanks!
I don’t have any children, but I do have a husband who as picky as a child, if not more. What I found the easist is to not tell him what is in the cooking. If I make potato salad and I use Greek Yogurt instead of Mayo, I tell him it’s Mayo, and he says ok, all good. I sub yogurt with sour cream and mayo all the time, he doesn’t know the difference. I made Sweet Italian sausage chicken links, and with all the peppers and onions, he thought it was pork. I always add a dash of healthiness here and there, and he doesn’t notice the diffrence if it is a minor change. Men are funny!
By the way I am going to try the Fritata recipe this weekend! Thanks for sharing, I can’t wait!!
Right now my daughter loves to help me make gluten-free brownies. But anytime she asks to help, I put her to work!
I would love a large slice for my breakfast! You cook so good!
Hi! Please don’t count me for the giveaway (I get too many cookbooks through work as it is!) — just wanted to say that your frittata looks fabulous!
Does my doggy count? He likes to “help” me cook everything, even veggies! 😉
Amanda, sure your doggy counts! Anyone who is by your side when you cook is a good thing 🙂 Did you see TidyMom’s homemade dog treats that she posted this week? They look awesome for everyone, not just doggies 😉
My son and I love baking corn bread together
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These frittatas looks delicious!
i love cooking breakfast
Looks like a great book! I don’t have kids of my own yet, but I lucked out and got two adorable nieces who love to decorate sugar cookies. We mix up different frostings and they paint the cookies (and often, themselves).
Cooking using our our fresh from the garden veggies and herbs.
So…I don’t have a kid. But I count, right? I’m a kid! ;-p
I love frittatas. I used to make a 6-egg frittata every single day (no kidding) until I realized that I was giving off really nauseating eggy farts. Ew.
The best thing to cook with kids is cookies – you can lick the bowl!
I love to cook with my grandchildren. I’m always hoping they will try new things.
Pizza! There is something they can help with at every stage.
Breakfast is something the kids enjoy helping me with…flipping pancakes, quality testing the bacon…etc 🙂
Always looking for new ways to introduce different foods to my family – lots of colorful fruits & veggies. Fruit (with hidden veggies) smoothies with yogurt are a snack staple.
I’m new to your blog (found from Oh She Glows!) & so far I love it!
My daughter is just learning to cook, she LOVES to make crepes. For me it’s not about what we are cooking, but trying to teach her to look at labels & learn about nutrition and what is healthy.
Mmmmm, your photos make me hungry :)! I don’t use my cast iron skillet nearly enough!
This looks amazing! Bacon, cheddar cheese and apples…heaven!
Cream of wheat! My 2 year old’s fave!
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My son likes to help with pizza.
My kids are all teens now but still love helping to make pizza and lasagna.
That looks great. I don’t have kids. But my boyfriend has a nephew that I cook with often. He likes to make cookies and anything with fruit in it. My little sister is prego so I am going to be an aunt and I can not wait to cook with her.
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You have to know, i LOVE cheese, when its melted…ohmygosh.
This here looks soooo good..I need to try this!!
Thanks so much for all your great recipes. MMmhmmmmm…
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Sounds delish!
Cheese and bacon are my two favorite things together. I think the apple will give it a twist. would love to try this looks delicious
The apple adds a little bit of fruity sweetness ~ a fun play on flavors 🙂