Kids Cuisine

While the rest of the country has spent the last few months going on and on about Michelle Obama’s svelte arms and dynamite fashion sense, D.C. has been abuzz about something else — her White House garden. This garden is the first vegetable-producing plot at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s war-era victory garden. […]

* picture from the Nestle website.
Yes, you read correctly.  Dessert.
I am a huge fan of Nestle recipes. I don’t think I have ever messed one up, or eaten the end result and expressed dislike.  So, it was only fitting that I see when my mouse clicks when I saw three little words… Mini Dessert Burgers.  Dessert?  Burger?  […]

My daughter is constantly bringing home children’s cookbooks from the library.  Most often, I admit it, I’m a terrible mom, and we end up returning the books several weeks later, unused.  For the longest time, I would look at the recipes included in most of these books and simply shake my head.  I could make […]

Summer is coming up, and it can be tough to find interesting activities to fill the long months ahead. In general, I am not a huge fan of kids spending hours in front of TV or computer screens, but there can be some exceptions. For instance, web sites that feature games both fun and educational. […]

If your family is like ours, you have been to more gymnastics birthday parties than you can count.  And when it is time to think of a party for our own kids, it is easy to fall back on the familiar.  Consider trying something different and perhaps less expensive.  What about a birthday party where […]

When I was growing up, one of my favorite books was Alligator Cookies, by James Young. The book is about two children who come across their uncle’s recipe for Alligator Cookies. The recipe calls for real alligator, so they have to go out to catch one. While they’re out looking for an […]

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 […]

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:  […]

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 […]