One thing that we have started doing recently at our weekly Greenmarket is letting each family member choose a “secret ingredient”. That means that you can pick anything-anything-that you are drawn to for any reason. When we get home, we discuss the special foods that we chose and start thinking about how we might make […]
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Ahhh, January. Yesterday, with constant rain just above the freezing point, two kids who are still clocking West Coast time, and no babysitter now that our part time sitter has found full-time work, it was the perfect day to put on the dhal. For the first year and a half of her life, my […]
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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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One of my astute friends says that you could pretty much wrap anything in phyllo, and it would taste good. It’s like bacon that way. This chicken/chickpea filling is simple, in execution and in flavor, and very nutritious. It could easily become vegetarian (or vegan for that matter) just by replacing the chicken with […]
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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…