Kids Cuisine

Not all kids’ cereals are created equal. There are kids’ cereals that are healthy and wholesome and are designed to provide kids with the nutrients their growing bodies require. No sugar, no drama, no prize in the box. Just minimally processed grains that cry out for the sugar bowl. When I was growing up, these are […]

The next time you bake a pie or quiche, don’t throw away those scraps of pie crust dough. Reroll the leftover dough scraps and use them to make these amazingly simple and addictive Cinnamon Pastry Flats. Of course, if you’d rather skip the pie and go straight to the flats, feel free! I like to use […]

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 […]

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 — […]

Way back when I was in junior high school, just about the age my daughter is now, I took a home economics class. In that class we were introduced, en masse, to the delights of culinary creation. Nowadays, this sort of class is called Home and Careers, and for all I know, students might be […]

In our household, ice-cream season is twelve months long. We eat it year-round, in all kinds of weather. But it’s true that come Memorial Day, our ice-cream consumption does seem to step up a bit, as we dive into warmer weather with an increased appetite for the cold, sweet stuff.
This year I’m looking forward to […]

Yes, it’s May, and yes, it’s finally 75 lovely, sunny degrees out, but I defy you to find a child who will reject a dumpling on the sole basis of the weather outside. I know my own kids would happily consume dumplings in weather nearly as steamy as the stew those fluffy dough pillows are […]

If your kids haven’t hit the magic years between roughly 8 and 18 when their interests suddenly explode in direct proportion to how much work and laundry you have and homework they have, and you’re spending more time on the sideline and in the bleachers than on the sofa, I have a few words of […]

For years, my son’s birthday cake request has actually been a pie — Peanut Butter Pie, to be exact. And this is quite a pie–silky, indulgent, incredibly rich, and good enough to have for a special day that comes only once a year.
This year, I decided to try something a little different. Instead of making […]

I may be going out on a limb here, but I doubt it. There a lot of noodle-crazy kids out there who wouldn’t touch a dish of macaroni with red sauce if it was the last plate of spaghetti on earth. And for every kid who wants his pasta “with butter, no sauce!” there’s a […]