Kids Cuisine

My children think they love s’mores.  I know I love s’mores — those warm, toasty marshmallows, sandwiched between two graham cracker squares, and oh, the oozing milk chocolate from the heat of the marshmallow… it’s pure heaven, I tell you.  Every year when it’s time to go camping, my children clamor for the s’mores. Eagerly […]

Did you ever have one of those moments where your child asked to make something that didn’t sound too appealing?  Then you look at her recipe and determine that it’s not likely something that you’d enjoy eating either, but the look on her face and the insistence wins you over.  That was the case yesterday […]

Recently I was asked by my daughter if I could buy her a new cookbook.  I asked her what kind of cookbook she wanted, and her reply was “one for kids, Mom!” So I spent some time looking around for a new cookbook that we hadn’t discovered yet, and I found a gem written by […]

Why is it that when something is little, even when it is something ordinary like a nose or a foot, it is adorable? Well, the same goes for food! Barilla had a fantastic idea when they thought to create Piccollini - miniature versions of 5 of their pasta shapes: penne, ziti, fusilli, farfalle, […]

On my blog, I wrote about an email I received from Lindsay at Fleishman-Hillard.  She thought I might enjoy a new cookbook from the California Table Grape Commission, Green Black Red: Recipes for Cooking and Enjoying California Grapes  (Chronicle Books 2008). She wrote, “In it [the book], readers learn how to turn this kitchen staple into an […]

The next time you bake a pie or quiche, don’t throw away those scraps of pie crust dough. Reroll the leftover dough scraps and use them to make these amazingly simple and addictive Cinnamon Pastry Flats. Of course, if you’d rather skip the pie and go straight to the flats, feel free! I like to use […]

One of the best things about summer vacation is that my daughter wants to spend more time in the kitchen. Her free time is no longer limited to just a few activities, and the world is her playground all day long. As a result, she’s been spending more time looking through cookbooks and […]

What’s so surprising about tuna? Well, actually, a couple of things, in this recipe.
For one, it’s the fact that my daughter made the sandwich pictured for me while I was working through lunch on a deadline. She decided to surprise me with lunch, and surprise me she did.
At age 12, she’s got enough chops in […]

Before school let out for the year, Abigail had brought home a kids’ cookbook from her school library. She paged through it, commenting about a lot of recipes that she thought looked good to her. When I asked her if there were any she wanted to make, she had to think for a […]

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 […]