Archive for the 'road food' Category
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 [...]
The Expedient Picnic
July 14th, 2009by Caroline Eating with kids is often all about expediency, and so although it was difficult, in Oxford, to set aside my romantic, Evelyn Waugh-inspired visions of country picnics, I have been at this long enough to know that when the kids are hungry, they need to eat. Now. So we make or purchase nice [...]
Ode to the British Sandwich
July 12th, 2009by Caroline I love sandwiches. Although I will eat a nice salad for lunch, or keep you company with Thai noodles or a rice bowl, just as breakfast is cereal for me, all I ever really want for lunch is a sandwich. In Paris, the sandwich is all about the baguette–as it should be, of [...]
Let’s have a little Feast!
July 8th, 2009by Caroline England is not generally known for its ice cream, and that’s ok — having contributed clotted cream (not to mention many fine cheeses) to civilization their dairy reputation is secure. Still, as in Paris, there’s ice cream everywhere here. From trucks that dish up soft serve cones (and, for an extra 70p, how [...]
And Only in Legoland, Windsor
July 6th, 2009by Caroline As Lisa made clear with her post last week, the rules are different on vacation. We stay up later, sleep in (or so we hope), and we indulge in sweet treats and extra snacks — and so it is for the kids, too. Now I’ve always been a milk shake and ice cream [...]
Muffins For the Road (Vegan Banana Wheat Germ)
April 1st, 2009by Caroline I have lost count of the number of field trips Ben’s first grade class has taken this spring, and we’re not done yet, and I seem to be driving them all. I’m not complaining; I’m not a committee mom — you won’t find me organizing this fund-raising gala or that anniversary celebration– I [...]
Berries, II
September 22nd, 2008posted by Lisa Caroline’s gorgeous post about berries highlighted one fundamental way that our families are different. We write about the very many ways that our family food cultures overlap in our introduction and some of the ways that we don’t. We thought a lot about cooking and meat and picky eaters. But we didn’t [...]
Unfamiliar Waters
August 25th, 2008posted by Caroline After a week in Paris, we headed south for a week unlike any we’d ever experienced (or likely will again). To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, my parents gathered our family on a barge that toured rivers and canals in the south of France. We were the only passengers, cared for by [...]
Yes, We have no banana blooms…
August 19th, 2008posted by Lisa …a story in pictures about desire lost and found. Week 2 at the Koloa Sunshine Market, we came for the regular things: greens, radishes, mountain spinach, tomatoes, fiddlehead ferns, mountain apples, and a back breaking assortment of mangoes, papayas, pineapples, passion fruit, apple bananas. Everything was rough and beautiful as always, and [...]
Mission: Eiffel Tower
August 3rd, 2008posted by Caroline The first time we’d tried to visit the Eiffel Tower, we traveled via the batobus, which offers a scenic ride down the Seine. Too scenic, as it turned out. We arrived at 7pm and faced lines that snaked from the entrance back and forth all the way across the plaza. We were [...]