Kids Cuisine

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 […]

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 […]

A few years ago, my husband and I took a cooking class together at one of the better Italian restaurants in D.C., Galileo. Under the capable instruction of Chef Roberto Donna, we learned how to craft the perfect risotto. I also learned a few other important kitchen tips, namely 1) Restaurant kitchens are VERY hot […]

Our Great American Bake Sale is coming up, and I’m doing several cooking classes with kids ahead of time to make some tasty treats to sell. I had chocolate on the brain and was contemplating all of the ways that my students could melt it safely. A friend of mine (who is in the chocolate […]

Lizzie Marie’s Tasty Tidbits Cooking Classes recently launched in our community and parents are shocked! Feedback we’ve received from participants’ parents include:
“I cannot believe my child ate healthy foods at your class and loved them!”
“My child never tries anything new… but she ate everything in class!”
“My daughter begged me to stop at the store […]

I just love it when hotels not only think of kids, but actually put some thought into interesting, cultural activities for child guests. There is a hotel that is, in fact, catering to foodie kids (or at least the offspring of foodies), which is all the better.
The Loews Las Vegas Resort just announced a new […]

You may remember Coolio from “Gangsta’s Paradise” and other big rap hits, but there is another side of the rapper. Coolio cook! He has been releasing “Cooking with Coolio” videos online for a little while. And believe it or not, he may just be able to get your kids to eat their vegetables.
Episode 3 of […]

When I was in middle school, students were required to take one quarter (roughly 9 weeks) of Home Ec. If you took it in 7th grade, you learned to sew. If you took it in 8th, you learned to cook. I was lucky enough to take Home Ec during 8th grade, though “learning to cook” […]

Since I teach cooking classes for children, people ask me all the time about what their kids can really do in the kitchen. They find it hard to believe that their toddler can actually help, without causing chaos. When I do workshops for mothers’ groups or schools on Family Mealtimes or Cooking with Kids, I […]

The pressure for a merry holiday season begins as soon as the pumpkins begin to sag on the front porch. Ads depict happy and relaxed families spending quality time together in front of the fire, or eating an elaborate meal in a large dining room. But in an age where the majority of […]