Kids Cuisine

The thing that appeals most to me about fresh peaches is their smell. To me, a fresh, ripe peach is one of the definitive smells of summer (along with sea air, sunblock, the leaves of tomato plants, freshly cut grass, and fried dough).
When peaches appear at my farmstand market, the entire aisle they sit in is perfumed […]

This summer has been a kid-filled summer. Now, I adore kids; however, I don’t have a desire to have any of my own.  Nonetheless, I have been spending time with a friend and his three and four-year olds who are visiting for the summer.
Toddlers?  Phew!  No one told me.  Middle schoolers/mini teens, I am good.  I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]