Archive for the 'cooking with kids' Category
Eli’s Elegant Broccoli
November 12th, 2010by Caroline I won’t claim to take as much time with presentation as Lisa does, but Eli is either paying more attention than I thought to my small efforts or he is simply reading this blog. The recipe he invented yesterday (with production assistance from Tony) shows he’s as careful with style as substance. The [...]
On the Fly
October 14th, 2010Or, Not Such a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Dinner or Day After All… By Lisa It’s 4 pm and I have no desire to cook dinner nor do I really feel inspired. I have lots of options: tofu, kielbasa, any variation on the egg, many variations on pasta, tacos…However, it’s 90 degrees, October, [...]
Bake Sale Chocolate Chip Cookies
October 9th, 2010by Caroline On a recent episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts (yes, I watch it, and I watch Top Chef, too), the contestants were asked to make items for a bake sale. One made a milk chocolate ginger pudding. Another made strawberry shortcake. Have these folks never been to a bake sale?! The winning recipe, [...]
Eli’s Super Cake
September 28th, 2010by Caroline It’s been a heady time for the youngest member of our family. In the months since he turned five, late last spring, he has learned to swim, learned to ride a bike without training wheels, graduated from preschool, started kindergarten, joined a soccer team — and scored two goals in his first game. [...]
Root Beer Float x 2
September 7th, 2010by Lisa We have a great debate going in our house: which goes in a root beer float first, the ice cream or the soda? This has been an ongoing experiment all summer long, since we discovered Trader Joe’s has a good bottled root beer (& a caffeine free cola that’s pretty terrific, too.) We [...]
Coconut Ice Cream
August 11th, 2010by Caroline Even though it has been cold enough all summer in San Francisco to turn on the heat, one recent day we also turned on the ice cream machine. This recipe comes from The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, by Bruce Weinstein, and it is absolutely fabulous. 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut 1 c sugar [...]
Strawbery Balsamic Cookie Crunch Ice Cream
August 5th, 2010by Caroline I usually don’t have much trouble getting my kids into the kitchen; we make sushi together, we make muffins, we make cakes and pancakes — mostly I bake with the kids, because mostly I bake, period. But anything I’m making, they’re welcome to participate, and they’re typically eager to help. Still, when a [...]
Moon Pies for Rocket Boys
June 10th, 2010by Caroline It’s all about rockets in our house lately. The boys are reading about Apollo 11 and the other moon missions, drawing rocket pictures, building cardboard and foil rockets, and making plans for their future lives as rocket scientists. I play along as much as I can, but my kids understand two fundamental things [...]
Sometimes Dinner Looks Like This
May 16th, 2010by Caroline My family’s vegetarian, so our meals never fall into the classic “meat and two veg” pattern many of us grew up with, but most of our suppers still do offer something recognizable as a main dish and some other things that are clearly the sides. But not always. I’ve written in the past [...]
Snacks, disguised
May 12th, 2010by Lisa You know the moment: dinner is not quite ready but the kids are starving. You don’t want to give them a snack because that would ruin everything. What do you do? First, I enlist them. Even Finn, at 5, is old enough to set the table. And if they know that I’ll get [...]