Kids Cuisine

My recent post, “What’s Your Kid Really Eating?” showed that we parents really need to think twice before we order our children food at a restaurant. In that, I cited an investigation that showed restaurant meals often had more calories and higher fat content than advertised. But that got me really thinking about the subject, […]

I could hardly believe my luck when I found out that some parents from our school were scheduling a music performance around the same time that I was holding one of my Great American Bake Sales. John, the dad I spoke to, suggested we join forces and create a wonderful community event. Nothing could have […]

What’s so surprising about tuna? Well, actually, a couple of things, in this recipe.
For one, it’s the fact that my daughter made the sandwich pictured for me while I was working through lunch on a deadline. She decided to surprise me with lunch, and surprise me she did.
At age 12, she’s got enough chops in […]

Before school let out for the year, Abigail had brought home a kids’ cookbook from her school library. She paged through it, commenting about a lot of recipes that she thought looked good to her. When I asked her if there were any she wanted to make, she had to think for a […]

Plantains. My first experience with these members of the banana family was in the mid-’90s.  I was completing my teacher training in Boston in predominantly Hispanic-populated school.   I was assigned to a second grade bilingual classroom where the children represented either the Cuban, Puerto Rican, or Dominican populations. Since this was back before No Child […]

It’s June, and we’ve hit that scary territory where my daughter is out of school for two weeks. We have two extra days a week to fill, when we were barely finding ways to fill the previous five. Given her druthers, my daughter would happily while away the extra days parked in front of the […]

Our Great American Bake Sale is coming up, and I’m doing several cooking classes with kids ahead of time to make some tasty treats to sell. I had chocolate on the brain and was contemplating all of the ways that my students could melt it safely. A friend of mine (who is in the chocolate […]

I really like Barilla brand pasta, and I love to use small pasta shapes in my cooking, so I was very interested in giving their new Piccolini line of miniature versions of their popular pasta shapes a try. Available in four fun mini-shapes — Mini Fusilli, Mini Wheels, Mini Farfalle (bowties), and Mini Penne — […]

A few weeks ago I brought home a bunch of rhubarb for the first time this year. My son looked at the bundle in my hand and asked me where I got red celery from. He loves celery, so I took advantage of this question and asked him if he’d like to try […]

During one of my Tasty Tidbits cooking classes, I wanted to teach kids how to make green eggs and ham without using any food coloring. Pesto makes a great all-natural green coloring. I jazzed up my recipe with pesto and prosciutto — what amazing flavors! The kids in my class said, “I didn’t […]