Kids Cuisine

Last week I introduced you to the wonder that is a Laptop Lunchbox. Those unique boxes are just begging for great things to fill them. Jennifer McCann at Vegan Lunch Box has taken on the challenge and come up with hundreds of recipes. She’s a “vegan activist who loves to cook (and eat!),” so you’re guaranteed some […]

Picture this: You’re sitting in a darkened theater, watching previews and getting ready for the feature presentation. While you wait, you reach down and grab a big handful of that quintessential movie snack, popcorn. Not just any popcorn, either, but popcorn smothered in fake buttery goodness. This was a rare treat when I was growing up, and now I […]

Looking for gift ideas for your children’s teachers, neighbors, and grandparents?  There is no better gift that they can give than one they have made.  This holiday season, my daughter will be giving homemade fudge to her teachers – fudge that her little hands have prepared and packaged themselves.  This classic fudge, published by The Eagle […]

My kids and I like to bake together whenever we can. Being a homeschooling family, baking has become a great way for us to practice concepts such as volume, weights and measures, fractions, and chemistry.

Mollie Katzen’s Honest Pretzels is the book we turn to most often when we have the desire to get cooking, partly […]

Kids Cuisine is taking the weekend off to spend quality time with our friends and family. Check back in on Monday morning for more great posts!

Having teens interested in cooking and being in the kitchen is a good thing… and having a cookbook aimed at them is even better.  Cooking Up a Storm: The Teen Survival Cookbook is brought to us by a 15-year-old chef, and it’s packed with easy to prepare items from snacks to full-course meals.  Better still, […]

It’s time to put the finishing touches on the Thanksgiving meal, and for most people sweet potatoes are somewhere on the agenda. This year, why not get the kids involved with the cooking and let them learn a little more about the roots of these roots?
 The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission has a great website promoting […]

I was lucky enough to get a great bento box for lunch today from Teaism, and as I was eating I wondered why I don’t do this every day. Bento boxes are common in Japanese restaurants, especially at lunch.
A typical bento box provides small portions of several simple, fairly healthy foods. This is great for […]

Two years ago, I hosted my first “foodie” Thanksgiving dinner.  We’d hosted Thanksgiving before, but this was going to be a feast to remember.   I literally spent three or four days preparing a delicious holiday feast that would impress anyone.  By the time the grand moment came to eat, the kids were all crabby and […]

(Mango Apple compotes in pastry shells © 2006 Nika)
Today Q is going to show you all how she made these Mango Apple compotes in pastry shells. You may wonder what a compote is. According to the Wikipedia, a compote is:
.. a dessert made of fruit cooked in sugar syrup.
We took it a bit further and […]