Let's Get Cooking

The girls have been VERY interested in cooking with me lately.  They have been flipping through the pages of the cookbooks that Nana Marci gave them & have been requesting to make all kinds of yummy goodies:)  Gracie use to love to watch the Food Network with me when she was a toddler & over Christmas Break she asked if we could watch a cooking show together :)  Perfect timing for me too as I've been looking for some new cooking inspirations for the new year.  So we decided to watch one or our favorite chefs, Giada de Laurentiis.  It just so happened that the show was Giada cooking with kids & the main entree was macaroni & cheese cupcakes.  Perfect as we love macaroni & cheese & cupcakes!!!  The recipe started with the mac & cheese basics & then recommended adding veggies & proteins too.  And the best part, you make them in a muffin pan!!! We decided to make our mac & cheese with 3 different cheeses & 2 of our favorite veggies, peas & corn.  And for our protein, Gracie picked BACON.   And we added some jalapenos for daddy :)  The girls LOVED making them, watching them bake & eating them too.  I have a feeling we'll be making these again soon.