Kids Cuisine

I am always looking for new ways to expose my children to the idea of making positive choices when it comes to food.  It sometimes seems that for every ten good ideas they take in, there are at least twice as many bad ideas taking root as well.   Well, a few weeks ago, I signed […]

Does this sound familiar:  “How much more do I have to eat before I can have dessert?”  If so, you are not alone.  In fact, we started hearing this so often at our table that we decided to stop serving dessert every night.  Dessert was becoming such a powerful incentive to eat their “growing food” […]

We would love to introduce our new family of chickens — Curry, Soup, Kung Pao and Butterfly (yes, as in “butterflied”) and Oreo, for dessert.  My daughter is quite creative with our culinary angle on naming the flock…
We are very excited that we will have our own recycling system right in our own back yard:  […]

I had some fun with marshmallow treats this past winter, making them into lollipops for Valentine’s Day. Now, as Easter hops closer, I went a different direction.  Baking a batch of marshmallow treats in a shallow pan, I used the large Wilton Grip Cutter to create the holiday shapes I wanted.  Then, I decorated my treats […]

It seems that every year, the retailers and marketers try to rush the holidays just a touch sooner.  This year, the Valentine’s candy hadn’t even begun to be marked down when the Easter displays began making their appearance. When I first saw the mountains of jelly beans and novelty candies, they made me smile, and […]

Many of my cooking magazines are touting asparagus recipes this month.  This works for me – I love asparagus steamed, roasted with some balsamic vinegar and brown butter, blanched and put in a salad, cooked with eggs and cheese in a strata, etc.  Getting my kids to try it, on the other hand, is a […]

When it comes to decorating cupcakes and cakes, I am terrible at it.  To wit, I signed up for an upcoming Wilton decorating class next month just to get a little better at it.  In the meantime, luckily for me (and anyone else in the same boat), there are people like Julie Beckwith out there.  […]

Easter is right around the corner. I was never a big egg-dipper-decorator kind of girl.  I always looked forward to waking up and finding the Easter Bunny had visited my room and home.  I would wake up, and from the moment my feet touched the floor, I followed the trail of jelly beans Bunny had left.  From […]

Well, we almost made it the entire winter without a major illness in our household.  Almost.  This past weekend our daughter brought home a raging fever, which subsequently has passed on to our son.  Dad and I are both boosting the vitamins, fruit juices, and handwashing, trying to stave off what will probably be an […]