Category: cooking with kids
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Best Vegan Coconut Bread or Muffins & Custom Recipes
One friend wanted a coconut bread recipe. Another wanted a dairy-free coconut “dessert thing.” Oldest son, now 14 and able to devour entire continents of food daily, especially post-soccer, pleaded for “a giant coconut thing filled with coconut topped with more coconut.” And my old friend, Cris, came to visit from her goat farm Central… Read more
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Sweet or Savory English Porridge – for breakfast, lunch, or dinner…
How I long to sit and have porridge with my best childhood friend, Jules. We tend to talk for so long that entire days slide by when we’re together. At her charming house outside of London, our kids played in the garden, our spouses talked sports and fish n’ chips, and inside, we laughed about… Read more
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Whole Wheat Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Lemon Glaze
Given his druthers, one of my kids would have all manner of bread and cheese – grilled cheese, quesadillas, pizza – at all meals. And snacks. So it’s odd (to me) that his favorite muffin is lemon poppy seed. Crunchy, tangy, sweet and sour. I made this cake for him because who doesn’t want cake… Read more
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Galley Cookies (thin, chewy, crispy cookies with chocolate, pretzels, and candy) aka Leftover Candy Cookies
Do you have miniature ghosts or Taylor Swifts or zombies coming to your door tomorrow? Do you end up with four leftover bags of candy or go through your child’s bag for their rejects (pretzels? Who gave me pretzels?). If so, these cookies will help. Eve if it’s not Halloween and you have bits of… Read more
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Red Onion, Tomato, Double Cheese Galette with Corn & Garbanzo Crust
This started as many recipes do, with good intentions…until I reached for the wrong flour. Is there an incorrect one? I guess. If you’re making traditional chocolate chip cookies, for example, and you use chickpea flour, maybe the results aren’t what you wanted. But for this gallette, the garbanzo bean flour wound up in my… Read more
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English All-Seasons Trifle & UK Adventures
English All-Seasons Trifle & UK Adventures “Did it hurt getting your ears pierced?” asks Julia, 9. “Yes.” “A lot?” “A bit,” I tell her and wait for the follow up. When can she get her ears pierced (12), would I get anything else pierced (no), why do people get anything pierced (cultural fashion, trends, expression).… Read more
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Apple & Honey Sponge Cake with Crumb Topping
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. For a sweet New Year we eat apples and dip them in honey. This recipe is inspired by that tradition. I made individual sponge-crumb cakes because they are fun for a big dinner and there’s no slicing required, which means less mess and fewer cake bits consumed by the… Read more
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Ribs (cooked slow and low) & the Only BBQ Sauce You Need
Don’t let summer go just yet. Or, if you have to, remind yourself that the taste of it can be had quite easily. If I’m making this on a school day…I wrap the ribs the night before and make the sauce*(and I make a lot because it keeps and works on tofu, shrimp, chicken)… As… Read more
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Quick Apricot Jam without Pectin
Small batch, ruby apricot jam in glass Weck jars. Phenomenal alone or pressed into a grilled cheese sandwich. Or slathered on cornbread and topped with fresh whipped cream for dessert. Read more
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Honey Cake & Things You Don’t Want to Fall out of Your Pants
I’m not a shopper. I’m the kind of person who runs into a store as though under time clock pressure, grabs the item in question, tries on twelv pairs, likes one, buys it, and leaves. And yet when it came time to try on jeans, I still found myself pondering… -When did we all decide… Read more
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Best Noodle Pudding (Kugel) & Welcome Back (Rosh Hashana, School, Fall)
Were we on a break? I didn’t intend for us to part. And yet…summer passed with nary a recipe. Why? Because I was too busy listening to the just-turned-5-year-old breathlessly tell me he has a new pet. “What is it?” “A worm.” He is young enough that he still pronounces it “warhm”. “Quick – come… Read more
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake & How Recipes Work on This Site
Perhaps you’ve wondered about the timing of recipes, how I get the photographs, if I plan everything out. Perhaps not. But if you’re wondering why this photograph showcases 1/2 of a Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake I can tell you it is because we ate the other half. Last night. For dinner.* So that’s all… Read more
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Peach Scones (with or without Roasted Ginger) & BF Skinner & Books
I had two buns in the oven – no, no, NOT another human baby. Book babies. I have a novel for adults that I’ve just edited and a novel for teenagers (which I suspect will cross over to the grown up side, too). Finishing a book is always an odd sensation – relief, happiness, and… Read more
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Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie with Buttermilk Biscuits & Random Bedtime Routines
This is a typical bedtime scene: Julia (age 7 3/4): Can I have a song? Me: Which one? J: Met my old lover in the grocery store. [my husband is apparently working his way through the entire 1970s singer-songwriter genre, a guilty pleasure of mine while driving, so I knew she meant Same Old Lang… Read more
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Buried Treasure (Flounder with Baby Greens, Caramelized Onions, & Parmesan) & I’m Back
Hello! NO, you didn’t imagine it – it has been a while…Reason? You want reasons? Okay… My oldest son and I went on a volunteer trip to Central America – great experience, rewarding, challenging, fun, and yes, recipes to follow… Middle son went back to school, which has been a transition for everyone… And I… Read more