Kids Cuisine

I waited for six months for the new Mexican restaurant on the corner to open. Visions of family burrito night danced through my head. My kids have loved Mexican food from the time they could put a handful of beans and rice in their mouths. A good local Mexican place would mean that at least one […]

For a white girl of German/Irish descent, I’ve sure had a lot of Japanese in my life. My mom and step-dad worked at Toyota for years. I spent a high school summer in Japan. Been back three times. My sister-in-law is Japanese, which makes my awesome new nephew half Japanese. I took my daughter, then […]

Nothing says yeah, yeah, I love you like getting up early in the morning just to make pancakes for your kids.
If you’re not the kind of mom who normally does that, I mean. And I’m not. Especially now that my kids are “older” (meaning, in elementary school), I’m much more the “get your own cereal […]

Maybe it’s because my mom worked full-time for most of my childhood. Or maybe it’s because she wasn’t interested in cooking. Whatever the reason, I didn’t emerge from childhood with any memorable kitchen traditions to pass on to my kids.
But that’s where Barbara came in. A longtime family friend who much later on became my […]

In the upcoming March issue of Parenting Magazine, I have a piece on how to keep toddlers occupied. (Yes, I actually wrote it two years ago, so nobody quoted in the piece actually has toddlers anymore, but that’s the big magazine story bank for you). My friend Christina Bess is one of those moms who […]