Kids Cuisine

I recently went to the Atlanta History Center to see the Ben Franklin exhibit and also learned about Civil War kitchens. I saw an actual kitchen from the late 1800s. Did you know that the kitchens back then were separate from the main house? It’s true. It was separate because about […]

I knew before we even started that it would end badly, but I thought the kids would have a lot of fun making a gingerbread house. I was right on both points.
When we went shopping a couple weeks ago, my daughter spotted a gingerbread house kit and, oh, she wanted it. It sounded like a […]

These days, with a fast food joint located down practically every street, it’s sometimes hard to convince kids that life exists beyond McDonald’s chicken nuggets. Not only that, but that homemade chicken nuggets were — gasp! — actually better! How could they be better when they don’t come as part of a Happy Meal, right?
My […]

With kids in the house, good snack options are a must. To me, a good snack maintains the delicate balance between taste and nutrition. It’s easy to make a delicious snack — classic chocolate chip cookies — but if we make those, we’ll spend two or three days eating way too many until they’re gone. […]

We’ve been hit with an unusually early blast of snow this year. In years past, we haven’t seen measurable snow until well after the New Year, but this year, we’ve gotten it much earlier. Normally, playable snow means plenty of hot cocoa flowing in the kitchen, but I was caught completely unprepared this […]

Who doesn’t like macaroni and cheese? All that gooey, cheesy goodness is an anytime favorite. After eating a big plateful, a nap is easily induced. I have made numerous recipes for macaroni and cheese over the years. Everything from the boxed variety (which is still a favorite), to the freezer kind, to the baked, […]

I always love finding ways to actually get my 4-year-old daughter, who just recently proclaimed to me, “I don’t like vegetables,” to willingly choose to eat vegetables. It’s always hit or miss. Some days she loves one type of veggie, then hates it the next day.
Yesterday, she actually was eager to put vegetables on a […]