Kids Cuisine

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 […]

This is weird. Before today, I have never made one of my all time favorite indulgences, chocolate truffles. And I love to cook and bake. I never really thought of making them myself, and they look hard to make.
Yesterday, my daughter and I were grocery shopping and looking for something fun we could make together. […]

I was never a big fan of candy necklaces when I was a kid. The candy wasn’t very tasty, and once you started to eat parts of it, the remaining candy tended to get sticky. Yuck. I can, however, appreciate the idea of having a little snack to carry around with you.
FT Bletsas, a Greek […]

It’s getting to that point in the summer where many kids start whining that they are bored. They are sick of all the typical summer activities and need something else to do. I think it might be time to blow their minds in the kitchen. Almost every kid I know gets a kick out of […]

On many weekends, I try to find something fun for my daughter (who has dubbed herself the “cooker girl”) to cook in the kitchen. It dawned on me this weekend we had never made a cake, and that has the added bonus of the fun of decorating after you bake.
I asked her if she wanted […]

So, you have kids? Let me guess. They are picky eaters. I’m shocked! OK, maybe that isn’t the case for all of you, but odds are pretty good it’s true for most of you. I just know the statistics in my own household — three kids, and two are picky eaters. So I’m going to […]

Penguins seem to be all the rage these days. After the incredible movie, March of the Penguins came out, these adorable little creatures started getting the attention they deserve. With other kid-friendly blockbuster movies out like Happy Feet and Surf’s Up, penguins went from being supporting actors to taking the lead roles. With all of […]

What would I do without Family Fun magazine? The ideas provided in each issue easily get me through the long days by giving me plenty of entertaining things to do with my kids. The July 2007 issue is no exception. As I was flipping through this issue I bookmarked games, craft ideas and recipes that […]