Now that you’ve eaten your huge feast and most of your leftovers, are you ready for a little something to make with your Yummy? Here’s a recipe for weekend brunching that is healthful, fun, and colorful. Try substitutes here as you like: carrots, zucchini, regular potatoes, parsnips, apples, pears, different spices, and any other things […]
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What with all the delicious mushy orange things going into our feast for Thursday, there seemed to be a derth of green, crunchy things. The traditional dish is, of course, the Green Bean Casserole, which can be good, but you know what? So often in those casseroles the green beans are these sad, little limp creatures that fail to […]
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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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When I was in Peru a few years ago, staying at Casa de Milagros and leading a yoga retreat there, we were able to have most of our meals made, at least in part, from the organically grown and very beautiful fruits and vegetables that Mama Kia grows in her garden. One such Peruvian jewel: […]
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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…