PKK & New Year's Eve all in one

In light of the busy holiday season, this Princess Kaitlyn Kitchen has photos included with New Year's Eve. I honestly do not have a story for this cooking adventure, but more will follow in the new year!

For Princess Kaitlyn's kitchen, we made cucumber cream cheese sandwich stars and tuna salad sandwich triangles. Kaitlyn ate both of them for lunch and declared that the tuna salad was her favorite.

Princess Kaitlyn (in her new Belle dress from G'ma Laurie) trying to score the cucumber skin to make it look pretty.

Princess Kaitlyn slicing cream cheese for the bread.

Princess Kaitlyn spreading the cream cheese on the bread.

Princess Kaitlyn grating carrot for the tuna salad. This is the first time we let her use the grater. She was very careful and did a great job.

Princess Kaitlyn putting some tuna salad on the triangle bread.

Cucumber Cream Cheese Sandwich

• Whole wheat bread - use a cookie cutter to make it a fun shape
• Cream cheese
• 1/2 cucumber (or less)

Cut the bread into the shape that you want to serve it. Spread on cream cheese and add thin cut cucumber slices. Place in refrigerator until ready to serve.

We adapted the kid friendly tuna salad recipe from Whole Foods ipad/ipod app:

• Tuna fish
• 1 1/2 T mayonnaise (whole foods used 1/2 cup cottage cheese instead of mayo)
  
• 2T grated carrots
• 3T sliced almonds
• 2T raisins (we used golden raisins)
• a dash of pepper (optional)
• lettuce (for on the bread)
• whole wheat bread
  

Here are fun pictures from New Year's Eve:

Our two different kinds of crab cakes - one is almost all crab with some seasoning and one has bell peppers, capers, onion, etc. in it.

Mommy and Daddy's NYE dinner after Kaitlyn went to bed. A tomato salad (sauteed yellow bell pepper, red onion and garlic along with olive oil, parsley and balsamic vinegar). We decided that we like Ina Gardner's crab cake for a dinner cake with the capers, bell peppers, seasonings, etc., while the Cook's Illustrated crab cake would work well as an appetizer (it's much easier to make and still tastes very good).