Kids Cuisine

Last week, I wrote about Mardi Gras and the British tradition of Pancake Day. I’m sure that got all of you desperately interested in making pancakes. But if it didn’t, if it got you in a mood to eat but not actually make the pancakes, I’ve got some good news for you.
IHOP is giving away […]

I have tried many a pancake recipe over the last few years. It seems like I am always trying to find new ways to squeeze extra vitamins and nutrients into my kids, and pancakes are such an easy thing to change up on a whim. I’ve been playing around a bit with the […]

I recently learned that during the Byzantine period, people had to make their own paint. They would take colored minerals and grind them up into a powder. Purple was a hard color to make since it came from special minerals. Royalty were the only people who could afford purple paints. Artists […]

My kids have an uncanny sixth sense about impostor junk food. There was the time I tried to serve them organic mac and cheese, and my daughter asked, accusingly, “What’s wrong with this mac and cheese, mom?” Or when I’ve served my junk-food-junkie toddler organic cookies, and she has shook her head in the negative, […]

Did you know that Mardi Gras is less than 2 weeks away?  I always forget about this celebration until the last minute. I guess it doesn’t help that the date moves each year.
Mardi Gras, or “Fat Tuesday,” celebrates the last day before the season of lent. During Lent, many Christians give up certain foods or […]

When I was in middle school, students were required to take one quarter (roughly 9 weeks) of Home Ec. If you took it in 7th grade, you learned to sew. If you took it in 8th, you learned to cook. I was lucky enough to take Home Ec during 8th grade, though “learning to cook” […]

One of the resolutions I’ve made this year is to make more of an effort to eat things that I’ve stocked in the pantry. That may not seem like much of a resolution to most people, but I have a fantastic habit of stocking the pantry and then letting it all languish. It […]

I met Chef Rocco DiSpirito, who did a cooking demonstration at the Taste of Atlanta event. Afterwards, he gave away free copies of his new cookbook, Real Life Recipes! Unfortunately he ran out of cookbooks. But, he had 1 more and gave it to me! He even signed it personally!

He was extremely nice and funny. […]

My kids, like most little kids, love to dip. I’ve tried to take advantage of that to work some new or previously rejected foods into their repertoire. I quickly realized they were thwarting my attempts to get them to eat veggies by using the veggies as mere spoons to deliver dip.
Then I realized that wasn’t […]

I’ve had my child cooking with me since she was two, and even before then she was hanging out in a backpack watching over my shoulder as I prepared meals. No surprise that she loves to help cook and even asks to watch me cook, pushing over a dining chair to stand on herself. It’s […]