Kids Cuisine

I discovered yet another cool way to get your kids interested in cooking (if they’re not already)! It’s called “Cooking Up Fun!” (www.noodleheadfun.com) It’s an imaginative way for parents to combine art and cooking in an activity that’ll surely hold children’s attention, all while helping to inspire and shape their creative skills. Plus, it’s a […]

I am pure Chinese, born in Hong Kong, and my husband is German-Scottish born in Buffalo, NY. Our household is full of cultural traditions from both sides of the family — from Chinese New Year red envelopes and cooking noodles for birthdays (signifies long life) to pumpkin-shaped Halloween cookies tied with an orange yarn, knitted […]

Vegetable gardens have become a big deal at our house! This year we decided to give our daughter her own small garden plot to plant whatever she would like. She chose radishes, romaine, broccoli, beans and carrots initially. As the radishes grew, she would proudly pick them, wash them, and then nibble […]

Now that the warmer weather is here, pretty soon, if you haven’t already, you’ll start to see kids’ lemonade stands start popping up in your local neighborhood. The folks at Kraft Food & Family have put together some helpful hints to help your kids run a successful lemonade stand and have fun while doing it.
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It isn’t always easy and it doesn’t always happen, but I try to maintain the family dinner table at my house. There have been times when, I must confess, my 4-year-old got the PB&J sandwich she was whining for, the twin babies were given Gerber finger foods, and my husband and I didn’t even eat […]

What’s your child’s favorite snack food? I hope it’s not potato chips or french fries. String cheese is one of my daughter Ava’s all-time hits. She eats it two ways, which I guess depends on how hungry she is. She’ll either take bites from one end to the other, or when she wants to have […]

I was all ready to get uppity about David Kamp’s piece in the NY Times May 30 about the ubiquity of the chicken finger on kids’ menus all over town. Surely, I thought, this would be another elitist rant about the dreadful way American children are eating.
And I was right. But I also was surprised […]

I had every intention of choosing a more unique vegetable for our B veggie.   At the grocery store, though, the broccoli was luscious and green and my dear son exclaimed “Broccoli! Yum!” to which I simply rolled my eyes, because the reality is that he doesn’t care so much for broccoli.  The broccoli was received […]

There is nothing out there that is quite as gratifying to me as smashing, kneading, chopping, beating, etc. the heck out of food. When I am stressed, give me a recipe that calls for doing something inhumane to the ingredients and by the time I have an end product, my stress is gone.
This morning, my […]

My daughter officially thinks I am too cool. I recently bought one of those popsicle mold sets, and she was quite excited about making her first homemade ice pop. Being a mom (and, therefore, totally lame), I suggested we make the pops with chocolate milk instead of something completely devoid of nutrition. Fortunately, she is […]