“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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Because this week is Purim in the Jewish tradition, I asked Natasha and her beautiful and talented daughter Hannah to share a special recipe with us. Little did I know that Miss Hannah was not only a chef but also a writer like her mama. The text covering the meaning of Purim is all hers. […]
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Usually, when somebody hands me a recipe, I can look it over, and everything will make perfect sense. This one, which is a mixture of two recipes given to me from my Brazilian friends Fabienne and Roberta, really surprised me. We had tasted these pao de quejo at Fabienne’s a few months back, and they […]
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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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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…