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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Hopefully, we’ll change the name of these to “8-Year-Bars” by this time tomorrow. Crossing my fingers with one hand and eating one of these with the other. Let’s talk about substituting for a moment before the recipe. If you are allergic to nuts, you’ll absolutely make your own granola or you’ll buy a nut-free […]
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Well hello, November! Our Monday here in the City is gray and calling out for soup and something for dipping and soaking up the broth. Throughout Fall, Winter, and early Spring, our chicken soup graces the table weekly. The vegetable ingredients change depending on what is available, but one thing remains the same: our beer […]
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Not that a Little Debbie snack cake (gasp!) has ever passed either one of my foodie kids’ lips, but I have been thinking about those snack cakes in earnest lately. It all started while I was visiting the South a month ago. I practiced/tried out being a Suburban mum and did things like go to […]
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Our friend Anne was born on the same day as my daughter Mira and made it out into the world a mere half an hour before her, so the girls are little twin stars. When Anne was still on the inside and ML was taking my prenatal yoga classes at the Kula, we had no […]
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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…