Ok, Bunnies, with Easter coming up in a couple of weeks and Springtime celebrations going on all around, it seemed like we all needed a healthful but luscious sort of treat. Working with the theme: eggs, fertility, growth, bunnies…ah, bunnies. Yes. A spread that I used to eat all the time at Angelica Kitchen in […]
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“Are the cow-zones, ready, Mama Cate?” the mini-chefs asked, peering into the oven. Who could not love teaching this bunch of children week after week? Because, as I explained to the mini-chefs, calzone are sort of like a little pizza that you fold in half, they worked with great concentration and-as always-great abandon. My mother-in-law, […]
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When Mira and her friends were still one-year-olds and in that pickiest of picky-eating phases, I cooked up these shepherd’s pies for them as an experiment. Some of them, who ate most everything anyway, did not surprise us when they gobbled it down. Others, my daughter included, really did. Mira happened to be going through […]
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What do you do when it’s a snow day, too cold and windy to actually play outside for very long, and you only have basic ingredients on hand to bake something-as per request-“chocolate and guh-nilla”? Time to crack out the cookbooks that have been languishing on our shelves. After bundling both kids up, which of […]
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Since we had a Mummies’ Night Out on Wednesday and needed to make sure that our mini-chefs were fed up right before we headed out for the night, we made my favorite lazy meal, the frittata. Well, um, the kids weren’t lazy at all. When they got their egg and a plastic cup to […]
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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…