Kids Cuisine

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:  […]

The past two weeks have been really rough in our neck of the woods.  Like many others, we got hit hard with back to back rounds of colds, viruses, and even a couple of trips to the ER.  Unfortunately, one of those weeks included our much-anticipated trip to Disney World (argh!!!).
All four of us got sick, […]

It was such an honor to be invited to interview Tyler Florence, author and celebrity chef of Food Network’s Food 911, How to Boil Water, and Tyler’s Ultimate. As a working parent concerned with feeding my family well, it was only natural for me to ask Tyler about how a busy man like himself is […]

What’s Cooking teaches cooking classes to children and helps families spend quality time together in the kitchen and around the table. While cooking strengthens family bonds and helps children to develop life skills, there are many other benefits as well. Simply take the fruits of your labor (pardon the pun!) through your front door and […]

I have a confession to make. I am one of those moms. I cringe at the thought of high fructose corn syrup entering the bodies of my two children. It’s not that high fructose corn syrup is much worse for their bodies than ordinary sugar. But to me, it is a sign that the […]

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 […]

It has been just over a year since I went to Honduras on the Educator’s Study Tour with Heifer International, and I am feeling quite nostalgic.  As an ode to our adventure and my life-changing experience, I thought I’d post an article that I wrote at the request of a local magazine.  Soon after I […]

It would be easy to say that I should take a break, get out of the kitchen, and do some activities for Earth Day. But the truth is, the kitchen is the perfect place for me to be. It is the heart of our home - the place where we create delicious family meals and […]

I am so excited to be a part of this new blog, Kid’s Cuisine, because I think it is really important that kids are welcomed into our cooking acitivites. It can be hard to find things for children to do, along side of you while you are cooking, but it pays real dividends in terms […]