Archive for the 'junk food' Category
Saying Yes
June 26th, 2011by Caroline This past year, my 6 year-old got out of school an hour earlier than my 9 year-old, and we spent that hour in the school library or, on sunny days, in the park across the street. Once spring came, an ice cream truck parked at the entrance and as we crossed the street [...]
Buy Me Some Peanuts and…
October 22nd, 2010Caramel Corn! by Caroline As I learned this week, thanks to the intrepid research assistance of friends and family, true Cracker Jack — whether you buy it at the ball park or make it at home to eat while cheering for your team — contains molasses. And while I’m always looking for ways to add [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lunch with Finn
April 28th, 2010by Lisa I’m in my last year of having a little one at home (though little is a relative term for my son, who has never been small). Finn attends preschool only 3 mornings a week, I have a sitter for about 5 or 6 more hours, and the rest of the time, we do [...]
Homemade Marshmallows
February 19th, 2010by Lisa The Valentine’s Day lollipops were a disaster. Two recipes, three flavors, three batches, nearly 150 suckers later, and not a single one came out right. They were pretty, but not so tasty, and didn’t harden. They’re not a good activity for kids because well, candy is really hot. So, on February 13 we [...]
The Real Thing
February 12th, 2010by Lisa I have never brought a bottle of soda into the house. Occasionally when my father or father-in-law are visiting, they buy their own diet soda, but I can safely say that nothing with corn syrup has ever been brought into my house by me or my husband. This is not to say the [...]
One more post about ice cream
August 26th, 2009by Caroline It was a hot day. We’d been exploring the Storm King Art Center by foot and by tram; we had picnicked and sculpted and now it was time to refill our water bottles and drive home. We could see, near the water dispenser, a vending machine with ice creams. OK, we told the [...]
Summer Traditions: The Red Rooster
August 23rd, 2009by Caroline Thirty-seven years ago my family moved back from Japan to the States, to a town eighty miles away from my maternal grandparents, and a tradition was born. Because halfway between my grandparents’ house and the one in which I grew up, in Brewster, New York, stands The Red Rooster, a hamburger and ice [...]
Boardwalk Ice Creams
August 6th, 2009by Caroline What’s a summer without ice cream? No kind of summer at all. Last week we made our own It’s-Its, this week, we stopped in at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (where everybody has a good ti-ime) and tried out the ice cream treats on offer there. Ben, no doubt still dreaming of It’s-Its [...]