Kids Cuisine

For those parents who are into children’s waters loaded with vitamins and other nutrients, here’s another one: NUI Kid Water (www.nuiwater.com) pronounced “new-ee.” The water is packaged in portion-controlled 10-ounce bottles. It’s a vitamin- and nutrient-rich drink created as a healthy alternative to the fructose-laden sodas and juice drinks that flourish in most beverage aisles, […]

It was my 3-and-a-half year old son who suggested spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and it was my newly-crowned 7-year-old who suggested we use the recipe from her new cookbook for dinner. I wasn’t about to argue when the two of them agreed on something for dinner and appeared to be willing helpers.
The cookbook was […]

This is weird. Before today, I have never made one of my all time favorite indulgences, chocolate truffles. And I love to cook and bake. I never really thought of making them myself, and they look hard to make.
Yesterday, my daughter and I were grocery shopping and looking for something fun we could make together. […]

While many of you may have toddlers, a few of you may also have your first college-age child heading off to school—and we all know what that means…The Freshman 15. The “freshman 15 ” is a term used to describe the weight gained by students during their freshman (first) year of study in college. The […]

I was never a big fan of candy necklaces when I was a kid. The candy wasn’t very tasty, and once you started to eat parts of it, the remaining candy tended to get sticky. Yuck. I can, however, appreciate the idea of having a little snack to carry around with you.
FT Bletsas, a Greek […]

Belle and Liv are more commonly known in households across the web as Spatulatta. Their website is full of webcasts and recipes they cook up for their audience. The girls are charming to watch and really seem to know their way around the kitchen. What I like best about Spatulatta, though, is that […]

Food Network celebrity chef Nigella Lawson says that if you put ketchup on nearly any food, kids will eat it. That may be true, but I couldn’t convince my son to eat her Blood and Guts Potatoes. No matter, more for me.
Aside from the one-hour baking time, it took just minutes to pull together. I […]

I’ve always been a sucker for a farmer’s market. I love them all, from modest parking-lot tailgate markets to Nice, France’s massive Cours Selaya flower and produce market. I used to work a block from a daily farmer’s market and would walk there frequently to buy fresh local tomatoes, cheese and bread to make a […]

Kids Cuisine has talked about Disney’s latest smash movie hit Ratatouille, but it’s worth one more mention. Why? Because the finicky French apparently have been wowed by the animated Hollywood movie!
It was recently reported in The Washington Post that French reviewers, viewers and even the country’s top chefs are gushing over the movie’s technical accuracy […]

Back to school dates seem to be sneaking up on us. Before you know it, lunch boxes will be flying out the door… but what will they be filled with? With so many unhealthy options tempting children at school, sending them off with some good nutrition seems ever more important. Not to […]