Our friends Ben and Jamie came over to make Chapati yesterday. New York has been damp-and even what I would describe as dank-off and on for days, so a big warm plate of buttery chapati served with our favorite simple dhal sounded like the perfect lunch. Mama Jamie described her time in Asia and her […]
Read the rest of "Chapati Party"…
We had a very special Birthday Boy in our class on Wednesday. Mister Thomas turned 4! Thomas and I go way back-we’ve known each other since he was in the womb, and I was teaching his mommy downward facing dogs. Clearly we needed to have a good treat for him for such a huge occasion. […]
Read the rest of "Brigadeiros (Brazilian Chocolate Balls)"…
Ok, Bunnies, with Easter coming up in a couple of weeks and Springtime celebrations going on all around, it seemed like we all needed a healthful but luscious sort of treat. Working with the theme: eggs, fertility, growth, bunnies…ah, bunnies. Yes. A spread that I used to eat all the time at Angelica Kitchen in […]
Read the rest of "Carrot-Apple-Ginger Spread"…
“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, […]
Read the rest of "Cooking Class: Calzone"…
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 […]
Read the rest of "Yummy Shepherd’s Pie"…
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…