Cooking with Kids

The women's apron can be seen as the symbol of a hard-day's work in the kitchen, a throw back to the era that gave us casseroles, Sunday pot roast dinners and a bold fearlessness of lard. Or better, it's a sweet reminder of those warm memories of baking chocolate chip cookies alongside mom on rainy Sunday afternoons, while dad watched the game on TV in the living room in the big chair. And then ate most of the cookies. But you didn't mind, the fun was all in the pointers learned from mom... Read Full Story

I don't know about your family, but in my family, food is what holidays and traditions revolve around. If your family sounds like mine, then how about this for a really cool Mother's Day gift idea? Collect family recipes and organize them, with photos, into a professionally made cookbook for mom! Blurb makes it easy to do, and prices for a 40 page soft-cover cookbook start at only $12.95. Add 10 dollars and make it into a hardcover book with dustjacket! Then, add it to the Blurb... Read Full Story

A couple of people have asked me* why on earth I would a two year old or even my five year old cut things up. They could injure themselves! Knives are dangerous! Since I mostly agree with this, and like my kids with all their digits intact, I gifted them each with a wavy chopper from the Montessori Services catalog. It requires both hands to push down with sufficient force to cut something, and simply isn't sharp enough to slice their little finger or for one to actually injure the other... Read Full Story

Yesterday I heard someone utter a phrase that might explain why some of the nation's children are struggling with their weight. The phrase was,"Kids' food is fattening." This is where targeted marketing has its effect. Only, the bullseye is on the back of the person doing the grocery shopping. It used to be that the only kid-friendly aisles in the grocery store contained colorful, cartoon-covered boxes of cereal or a frozen array of sugar-loaded desserts. Today, virtually every aisle... Read Full Story

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