Kids Cuisine

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 […]

I tried it, I really did. I made some food look funny to see if my kids would eat without complaining. The idea is that they would be so tickled they would forget to think about the actual food and just eat it.
I had read Brian Wansink’s article earlier that day about how to change […]

I knew before we even started that it would end badly, but I thought the kids would have a lot of fun making a gingerbread house. I was right on both points.
When we went shopping a couple weeks ago, my daughter spotted a gingerbread house kit and, oh, she wanted it. It sounded like a […]

I had to laugh at the dinner table tonight when my 5 and 7 year old children engaged in verbal battle over which type of squash was better: Acorn or Delicata.
As my daughter groaned about her Acorn squash, I thought about my friend Charlotte and the experiment that she started doing with her son about […]

My almost 2-year-old daughter, Ava, is always wanting to sit on the kitchen counter when I’m cooking. She sits there humming her own sweet tunes, wanting to smell everything and anything I slice or dice. Ava also has a miniature, plastic kitchen that she loves to pretend to cook with, putting plastic pots and pans […]

Our five-year-old son is very particular.  He refuses to wear shirts with stripes, buttons, or collars (his uniform for his new school is going to be a hard one to swallow on two out of three counts).  His sandwiches?  No crust, thankyouverymuch.  When Erika highlighted these sandwiches cutters back in January, I made a mental […]