Ahhh, January. Yesterday, with constant rain just above the freezing point, two kids who are still clocking West Coast time, and no babysitter now that our part time sitter has found full-time work, it was the perfect day to put on the dhal. For the first year and a half of her life, my […]
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Happy New Year, Yummies! Since I’ve been my mom’s sous-chef for the past few weeks and had little time to do anything but follow the Boss-Lady’s orders around the kitchen, it seems fitting to share a wonderful recipe that she has passed on to me. Actually, this recipe had a circuitous way of getting […]
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Please pardon the small interruption in treats. When you’re working with Yummies, and in this particular case a one-year-old and 12 two-year-old Yummies, your plans sometimes go awry, your camera gets highjacked, and Treat Week comes to a screeching halt. On the plus side, there will be future posts on the chaos and fun that […]
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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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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…