Kids Cuisine

…Continued from episode 3
We truly enjoyed tasting the variety of marmalades that were available with breakfast each day. Their flavors were bright and fresh, and were a wonderful change from the predictable flavors of jam we can find at home.

Naranjilla (Lulo) with sugar: This marmalade comes from a greenish citrus fruit and contains small flecks […]

Personally, I would expect Olive Garden to be one of the healthier options in the restaurant chain choices. After all, they don’t tend to offer too many fried foods and they serve up salad at the start of each meal.
I was a bit off-put to see that Olive Garden doesn’t provide comprehensive nutritional information, however. […]

In deciding to research the nutritional information for chain restaurant children’s meals, I came across an even more startling finding than I expected. Sure, there are some children’s meals that have a shocking amount of fat or calories. Worse yet, though, there are some children’s meals that are a complete mystery. That’s because some restaurants […]

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 […]

Initially, the thought of green ice cream is not appetizing—unless of course by “green,” you mean fully sustainable and organic. Such is the case with the recently opened Three Twins Organic Ice Cream store in Oxbow Public Marketplace in Napa, CA—the only fully organic and sustainable ice cream facility in the region.
Three Twins has 70 […]

My recent post, “What’s Your Kid Really Eating?” showed that we parents really need to think twice before we order our children food at a restaurant. In that, I cited an investigation that showed restaurant meals often had more calories and higher fat content than advertised. But that got me really thinking about the subject, […]

Have you ever looked at the nutritional information for restaurant meals, even kid’s meals that sound healthy (such as pasta with a tomato-based sauce)? I’ve always been shocked by just how fattening and high-calorie some of these meals are, as I discussed a while back about the nutritional values of children’s meals. I don’t plan […]

Corn Dogs always seem to be a favorite of kids. Now that summer is here, trips to parks and outdoor events present visions of little ones running around with a dog on a stick. Whether at a carnival, a ball game, or street fair, these meals on a stick stand out to be a […]

…Continued from episode 2
Watermelon has always been a favorite in our family. We were amused to discover that it is also a favorite of the white-faced capuchin monkey, who steals it from the visitors to Manuel Antonio Park whenever possible. Sadly, stealing food is simply an opportunistic behavior that these animals have adopted in response […]

Shortly after my daughter’s first birthday in 2005, my local newspaper ran an editorial in which a columnist complained about parents taking their kids to Starbucks and disrupting her coffee break. She said something to the extent of, “I had to suffer through McDonald’s when my kids were young and you should, too.”
No. Just because […]