Kids Cuisine

In my experience, cooking with kids can sometimes be only slightly less frustrating than cooking for kids. I’m no neat freak (a quick peek at my desk will confirm that), but the one place I really do like things to be orderly is in the kitchen. I admit, I kind of insist on it. If you’ve […]

The last few times our family has traveled to the bookstore, my daughter has accompanied me to the cookbook section.  While she used to dash straight away to the children’s section, she now goes to the kids section via the cookbooks. How can I not love that! She takes her time looking at cookbooks, paging […]

I saw this post about 5 minute chocolate cake and thought it was a joke. So, you know, I had to try it.  Holy Moly… this is great!  I instantly thought of how perfect this would be to do with kids. Until now, I always thought the ice cream muffins were a great kid-friendly baking […]

We adore pears in our household — they’re easily one of our favorite fruits — and we all agree on that point.  We’ve also been fortunate the past few years to have an abundance of pears at our disposal, and while we do tend to eat most of them out-of-hand, sometimes we really just need […]

It occurs to me that kiwifruit have a lot in common with kittens. Small, fuzzy, beloved by children — they’re edible cuteness (um, kiwis, that is, not kittens). Interestingly, kiwifruit are actually berries, hence their other handle, the “Chinese gooseberry.”
In our family, we like to eat our kiwifruit raw - in thick slices or diced and mixed into fruit salads. I […]

There are some things kids just love to make. Once we bought my daughter a cupcake making kit, she harassed me incessently until we pulled it out and made some cupcakes. We did everything the manual way that we could, including mixing with an old-fashioned mixer.
It was actually a pretty lengthy process, but in the […]

The days are growing shorter, the school buses are out becoming familiar with the new routes, pencils are being sharpened, and lunch boxes are being broken out of summer storage.  Every day creeps us closer and closer to that impending first day of school, and the official end of summer that comes with it.  But […]

I bet the kids have never seen a peanut butter and jelly sandwich like this one before!  I made a similar recipe that was quite complicated, but after some experimenting I found you can make this braid quick and easy by using Pillsbury’s French Bread Loaf.  It’s warm, gooey, and delicious.  The kids will be […]

If your family is anything like mine, we’ve been glued to the television set in the evenings, watching every Olympic event we can.  My children have discovered that they enjoy watching all the athletes compete at their best.  We’ve had many conversations about sports and what kind of activities they might like to […]

A friend and I were talking about our kids’ eating habits the other day, and rattling off the list of things that they will or won’t eat.  We both concluded that while they may be a little pickier than we’d like, they still eat enough of the “good stuff” that we (and they!) are on […]