Kids Cuisine

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 […]

Peanut butter is one of our household’s favorite staples. We love peanut butter as a sandwich spread, dip, cracker spread, or occasionally in a sweet treat. Shoot, we’ve all been known to just dip in a spoon and eat the peanut butter straight up. More recently, though, I started wondering how it would work to […]

If your kids haven’t hit the magic years between roughly 8 and 18 when their interests suddenly explode in direct proportion to how much work and laundry you have and homework they have, and you’re spending more time on the sideline and in the bleachers than on the sofa, I have a few words of […]

As the weather finally begins to warm up, my daughter has started laying on the puppy dog eyes when it comes to snack time. Claiming heat exhaustion, she assures me that only an icy cold treat will get her through the steamy hot afternoon. We’ve already begun stocking the freezer with juice pops and […]

It’s always nice when you can find a kids’ snack food that has the enticement of bad food, but isn’t actually all that bad. The new Nabisco Teddy Graham Trail Mix is fun for kids (especially toddlers who haven’t had any nuts yet).
There are two types, a Bears and Bees mix and a Bears and […]

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 […]

Leave it to my daughter to come up with a clever new snack idea. As I was putting the finishing touches on a batch of homemade marinara sauce, Abigail walked in from school, ravenous as usual. I told her I would be a minute before I could find her a snack, and turned […]

Perhaps it’s a little odd to whip out the ice cream machine when the thermometer outside is barely nudging sixty, but what can I say, I’m an optimist — with a desperate yearning for warmer weather. That, and I find myself at the change of seasons with a taste for spring and a surplus of […]

My four-year-old son Zander is in a phase right now where he asks if everything he eats is healthy for him. When I acknowledge that yes, what he is eating is healthy, he smiles and gobbles up whatever it is. If I tell him that something is not healthy, but it’s okay to […]

I have learned that I need to be careful about what I call things in my kitchen. For example, my kids both claim that they dislike gravy. However, if I call it something different, like “turkey sauce” they gobble it up and ask for seconds. The same holds true for anything containing […]