Kids Cuisine

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 […]

I find that I tend to get in a rut when I find a success when feeding my children. I’m certain we’ve all gone through this. We feed our little miss something that she’s never eaten before and she inhales it. In fact, she ask for seconds and then practically licks the […]

Last week we made the horrible mistake of serving our kids vegetable kebabs fresh off the grill. While Mom and Dad were relishing the first charred vegetables of the season, the moans and groans from the pee-wee side of the table were nearly deafening. I was reminded several times over that my children really […]

Peanut butter is one of our household’s favorite staples. We love peanut butter as a sandwich spread, dip, cracker spread, or occasionally in a sweet treat. Shoot, we’ve all been known to just dip in a spoon and eat the peanut butter straight up. More recently, though, I started wondering how it would work to […]

As the weather finally begins to warm up, my daughter has started laying on the puppy dog eyes when it comes to snack time. Claiming heat exhaustion, she assures me that only an icy cold treat will get her through the steamy hot afternoon. We’ve already begun stocking the freezer with juice pops and […]

Our adventure this afternoon involved a partial package of won-ton wrappers and an open pantry and fridge to see just what we could stuff a won-ton with. As it turns out, the question should have been what can’t we stuff a won-ton with, because those little squares of pastry will hold just about anything […]

That’s what my son said to me as we made the latest cookie to cross our kitchen counter. I had decided to make cookies, but I wanted something more interactive for my son than dumping a few ingredients in a bowl. I wanted hands on, with delicious final results. My first thought, of course, had […]

Leave it to my daughter to come up with a clever new snack idea. As I was putting the finishing touches on a batch of homemade marinara sauce, Abigail walked in from school, ravenous as usual. I told her I would be a minute before I could find her a snack, and turned […]

My four-year-old son Zander is in a phase right now where he asks if everything he eats is healthy for him. When I acknowledge that yes, what he is eating is healthy, he smiles and gobbles up whatever it is. If I tell him that something is not healthy, but it’s okay to […]

I have learned that I need to be careful about what I call things in my kitchen. For example, my kids both claim that they dislike gravy. However, if I call it something different, like “turkey sauce” they gobble it up and ask for seconds. The same holds true for anything containing […]