Our Yummy Mummy Wednesday class has officially become crazy. Lots of the tiny Yummies have come of age and are right in there with their older siblings, rolling up their little sleeves, stirring, tasting batter, and holding their own. The older kids have been wilder lately (urban can fever?), and we may very well have […]
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What could possibly be better than risotto? Fresh, local mozzarella surrounded by risotto and baked until golden on the outside and gooey in the middle. At our very last Yummy cooking class of 2008, we made these risotto cakes. The children got to scoop up the risotto, smash it into a pancake, pop the […]
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We blended up some gorgeous pink Lassis this week in cooking class. The kids put all of the ingredients into their bowls and waited so patiently till it was their turn to blend and watch the red and white things mix together and turn rose. The Lassis, basically Indian smoothies, were met with many glugs of approval. […]
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The Tribeca Yummies are going to have a whole repertoire of holiday classics under their belt before the end of this semester of cooking class. What Thanksgiving menu could be complete without a dish of sweet potato casserole? To tell the truth, personally, I’m not a huge fan of the goopy marshmallows that usually […]
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This week the children were ready to get down to business as soon as they arrived at class. We began by talking acorns. As a child when I would play “restaurant” with my cousin, acorns went into many of our dishes-whole, cracked with just the little orange balls (“pumpkins” as we called them), or […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…