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Let the Hosts of ABC’s ‘The Chew’ Help You Plan Your Party

April 29, 2016 by Dana Hinders

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If you’re a fan of ABC’s hit show The Chew, you’ll love The Chew: An Essential Guide to Cooking and Entertaining. This new release cookbook is full of crowd pleasing recipes, as well as fun anecdotes and show photos from Mario Batali, Carla Hall, Clinton Kelly, Daphne Oz, and Michael Symon. It’s the fourth in a series of cookbooks from the show’s hosts.

What I like most about this book is the fact that all the recipes use simple ingredients and are clearly labeled with make ahead, slow cooker swap, on the lighter side, or time saver icons. This makes it easy to find recipes that suit your particular cooking style, although I should point out that the book only lists prep time and cook time for each dish. It does not provide nutritional information for the recipes. (If you’re on a restricted diet, this could be a problem.)

On the Disney Publishing website, you can review three great sample recipes to try, as well as an online shopping link.

  • Cheesy Pull Apart Pesto Bread: A yummy appetizer to get things started from Carla made with store bought ingredients to save time
  • Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs with Fingerling Potatoes: An affordable main dish from Daphne that’s also flavorful, quick, and low stress
  • Dad’s Death by Chocolate: A decadent party dessert from Michael based on his favorite childhood treat

Disclaimer: A review copy was provided by the publisher.

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Spring Outdoor Activities for Kids

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I hope if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere that it’s getting warm enough where you live to add in some outdoor activities with the kids. It’s easy to do a lot of learning outside when the weather is nice; my daughter has a fond memory of doing long division in sidewalk chalk at her school. But if you need some more specific ideas, here are some fun and educational spring outdoor activities for kids to do at home or at school.

Gather some glass bottles, rocks and other natural materials to make a garden xylophone with these instructions from The Moments at Home. This looks so fun, and you can use this idea to make musical instruments with other objects you find around the home/classroom/playground too. 

This post from Child’s Play ABC has a lot of great outdoor learning ideas for kids, but the one I wanted to highlight is going on a rainbow scavenger hunt. Kids can collect things of different colors and see if they can make a rainbow (or just sort things by color). Check out more ideas for scavenger hunts.

Another good activity to do with things you collect from outdoors is making natural paint brushes. Get the instructions from Messy Little Monster, and of course you can test them out by painting outside, too.

Speaking of art, have you ever made paint from dandelions? (I dyed yarn with dandelions once, and it was a lot of fun.) Learn how from Little Cooks Reading Books, and then you can use your natural paintbrushes along with natural paint!

You can also paint with mud, like in this post from There’s Just One Mommy. Or make an outdoor, garden themed sensory bin with real dirt like this one from Mess for Less.

Or kids can gather materials to help them build their own nests as they learn about how birds and other animals build nests. The Crazy Outdoor Mama has a printable and post that will help.

What activities do you love to do with kids when it’s nice outside?

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