If you are anything like us, you have probably eaten way too many treats this week, done too much partying and might need a good home cooked meal to take your family through the next few days. Our cooking class made this veggie lasagna in their own personal ramekins. We loaded up the layers: tomato […]
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Our cooking class needed a vegetarian lunch dish to power up before devouring our chocolate salami. When I consulted my friend Roberta, she suggested rice and beans, a staple of the Brazilian diets. How fortunate! It is also a staple of our diet and a favorite of the Yummies. Is there anyone who doesn’t love […]
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Happy December, Yummies! Don’t you just crave stews and soups in this weather? Dank days, chilly nights, biting wind, they all seem to call out for something warm and comforting. Something nutritious but super flavorful. In cooking class a couple of weeks ago, we made a tagine so delicious that, excluding one, the entire class […]
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One of my big person friends found it a little shocking that we would practice butchering in our cooking class for four-year-olds. “They’ll never eat meat again, ” she said pleadingly. Well, that very well might be true. When we work with meat and animal products, when we cook with them, we are face to […]
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At the beginning of every semester, both the Yummies and the Mummies (and Dads) get asked what things they want to learn how to cook during the session. Invariably, the children say, “Chocolate cupcakes” (and goodness, who doesn’t want to bake those), and the adults say that they would like to learn how to make […]
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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…