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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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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My post-Thanksgiving adrenaline letdown resulted in a subsequent day-after laziness. Not only that, but I had no real drive to cook anything at all for a while nor to eat any of the loads of leftovers that had been filed away in the freezer and back of the fridge. Leftovers in general? Enhh. However, there […]
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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…