As our weekly yummies-and their-mummies cooking classes started up again here in Tribeca, the occasion called for celebration. We’ve often made things that most of the kids ate, but not all of them, but that wasn’t the case when we made maple ice cream. The yummies used two plastic bags and a little elbow grease, […]
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Back-to-school season means back-to-lunchbox season. For most of us that also involves scrambling around to find healthful things that our children love to eat and that are reasonably easy to make. Last week a friend asked me what she could send to school with her daughter. Since her daughter has nut allergies and because of […]
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My grandmother, a health foodie well before it was en vogue, made yogurt at home back in the 1950’s. She had to send away for the culture since there was no yogurt for miles around the rural New Mexican town where she lived. When I was a child and she was helping raise me, she […]
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With the peak-season watermelons showing up at our local farmer’s market, we wanted to pay homage to these sweet treats and to the trickling days of summer. Appropriate for the holiday, it took a bit of elbow grease, but the result is devine. The recipe follows. Please note that a tarp might […]
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When I first suggested making these chocolate zucchini muffins to Mira yesterday, I was met with a real pondering look. “OK,” she said slowly, “But I get to have one all by myself.” Well, sure. After the muffins were measured, mixed, cupped, baked, and cooled, I set Mira’s one self-muffin out for her […]
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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…