It was Raggedy Ann’s birthday. Again. It seems that she turned twenty today and wanted muffins and hot chocolate. Hmmmmmmm….. Since it was so cold and since we are cold wimps-though to be fair, living right over here near the Hudson River IS about ten degrees colder than elsewhere in the city-we decided to work […]
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Over the weekend here there were threats of a big snowstorm that would snuggle the City under a few inches of snow. For a girl who grew up in the South, in a place where snow happened about three or four times in eighteen years, an actual biggish storm still seems so glamorous and romantic. […]
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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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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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With Christmas only a couple of weeks away and Hannukah only three weeks away, we thought that you might enjoy a week of easy treats that you can make with your children. First up is this glam chocolate bark bedecked with Goji berries and Pistachios. We, fortunately, live right down the street from nut Shangri-la, […]
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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…