Kids Cuisine

It can be done. It can even be fun. Before you get out the rolling pin and sprinkles, though, these tips can make your Christmas baking more festive than frustrating.
TIP ONE: Pick your recipe carefully. Make sure it has a good task in it that your child can do. Leave the difficult recipes for another […]

Last week, I went to a new kind of party for me — a cookie swap! If your family enjoys a lot of variety in goodies, you need to try cookie swapping. Here’s how it works.

Invite a group of people (parents, kids, or families) to the cookie swap.
Have each person or group make enough cookies […]

Jango Mango, the National Mango Board’s global ambassador, has provided the inspiration for an online game about geography, culture and the world’s most popular fruit. The new Jango Geography game teaches kids about mangoes and the countries from which they originate. The game takes children on a journey through the Amazon, across oceans, and up […]

If you’re looking for a new way to decorate cookies with your kids this year, why not give cookie stamps a try? You’ll be delighted by the effects of these on not only your cookies, but also on everyone who has the good fortune to receive them.
Prior to receiving my sample stamps from Rycraft, I’d […]

Dish duty!
Just ask anyone who has cooked anything recently, and they will tell you that the kitchen is an ideal place to reinforce what our children are learning in school.  Measuring, estimating, and counting reinforce math skills.  Predicting, observing, and causing chemical/physical changes in food are the fodder of scientific learning.  Tasting and preparing foods […]

Looking for ways to get your child into the kitchen? How about having them help you give the veggies a bath before dinner? You do realize that if they play with their food or help you prepare it, they will be more likely to eat it, right?
Here’s a quick how-to:
Soft brush

Carrots, potatoes, yams, and turnips […]

My sister is a crafty person. She has a B.A. in art. So these awesome cupcakes she made for my husband’s birthday were not entirely unexpected. Not only do they look awesome, they tasted pretty good as well. The penguin is a regular cupcake topped with a mini donut and a donut hole. It doesn’t […]

Spring Rolls (fotosearch.com)
I am so lucky — I get to play with food and get paid for it! This morning, I did a birthday party for a 6-year-old and 9 of her friends. We created some delicious Thai Veggie Spring Rolls for lunch, along with some udon noodles, edamame, and slices of watermelon.
Fresh Thai-Style Spring […]

As good parents, we try to teach our children about the golden rule:  do unto others as you would have them do unto you.  Or, more simply: treat others how you want to be treated.
The same should be true for our food system.  I am hard pressed to believe that the parents who encourage their […]

There are some things kids just love to make. Once we bought my daughter a cupcake making kit, she harassed me incessently until we pulled it out and made some cupcakes. We did everything the manual way that we could, including mixing with an old-fashioned mixer.
It was actually a pretty lengthy process, but in the […]