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 […]

It’s June, and we’ve hit that scary territory where my daughter is out of school for two weeks. We have two extra days a week to fill, when we were barely finding ways to fill the previous five. Given her druthers, my daughter would happily while away the extra days parked in front of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our adventure this afternoon involved a partial package of won-ton wrappers and an open pantry and fridge to see just what we could stuff a won-ton with. As it turns out, the question should have been what can’t we stuff a won-ton with, because those little squares of pastry will hold just about anything […]

That’s what my son said to me as we made the latest cookie to cross our kitchen counter. I had decided to make cookies, but I wanted something more interactive for my son than dumping a few ingredients in a bowl. I wanted hands on, with delicious final results. My first thought, of course, had […]

It happened! Finally! A cookbook for fun, delicious, AND healthy recipes for kids that uses an honest to goodness approach to feeding kids real foods, as they were meant to be. The Toddler Cafe by Jennifer Carden is a breath of fresh air when it comes to the world of kids’ cookbooks.
I own a company […]

For Christmas this year, my daughter received a piping bag with a set of tips. She’s had so much fun decorating cakes and cupcakes with it since then that I decided that for her twelfth birthday party, we’d spread the fun around a little—literally. We invited a few friends, made a couple of pounds of […]

My kids, like most little kids, love to dip. I’ve tried to take advantage of that to work some new or previously rejected foods into their repertoire. I quickly realized they were thwarting my attempts to get them to eat veggies by using the veggies as mere spoons to deliver dip.
Then I realized that wasn’t […]

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 […]