Kids Cuisine

Last night while I was preparing to make dinner, my nearly-seven-year-old daughter meandered into the kitchen. She stopped and checked out the counter, looked quietly and then disappeared around the corner. Soon after, I heard water running and the sound of hands being washed. A few more minutes passed and then Abigail […]

Does your kid love to make up new recipes? Does he or she happen to enjoy a burger, especially one with interesting toppings? If so, I’ve got the perfect contest for your family!
Red Robin, home of delicious burgers and chicken sandwiches, is starting a kids’ cooking contest for ages 6 to 12. Between now and […]

My daughter got into cooking right before Christmas, and soon after informed me how crucial it was that she have an apron and a “cooker hat.” It was a little too late to depend on online ordering in time for Christmas, so I began a frantic quest to find a child’s size apron.
First of all, […]

I love pressed sandwiches. There’s just something magic that happens when all of the ingredients are pressed tightly together. I’ve thought about getting a panini press for years, but it always seemed like overkill to waste money and space on a device with just limited use.
An article in this week’s New York Times food section […]

This week while perusing the cereal aisle, a new product caught the eye of my six-year-old daughter. Kellogg’s Cereal Straws called to her — she had to have these edible cookie-like straws to slurp up her milk. I looked over the box, rolled my eyes, and placed it in the cart. My […]

There’s a new study out that explains why it can be so hard to get kids to eat healthy food. Researchers at Stanford followed preschoolers in a Head Start program in California. The kids were given samples of burgers, chicken nuggets, french fries, juice, milk, and carrots — one of each was unbranded, and one […]

It’s not too often that my daughter chugs down three servings of milk in a day’s time and I have to say no to a fourth serving. That was what happened when I saw Horizon Organic’s flavored single serve milks appear at my grocery store and grabbed up one of each flavor for her to […]

Making tapicoa pudding can be a lot of fun for your kids. It’s kinda like a science project—that you do in the kitchen. But, you need to use the regular tapicoa pearls, not the instant forms. Tapioca comes from the cassava plant and has been used for centuries in creamy puddings and sweet desserts. Its […]

This is Fair Food Part 2: Attack of the Grease!

On Tuesday, we talked about introducing your kids to produce and livestock at the fair. Today we tackle a more controversial subject, fair food — the greasy delights found along the midway at every fair.
Funnel cakes are a fair classic — cake batter drizzled into a […]

Once a week during the summer the kids and I find ourselves in the position of needing to eat lunch while out and about. I confess to not trying new things very often, but a few weeks ago I decided enough was enough. After a few lunches of the standard burgers, pizza, and […]