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Posts tagged “kids”

Cookie Art: Painted Sugar Cookies from Martha Stewart

This is our kind of art project - the kind you can eat! Martha Stewart uses straight food coloring to get those vibrant colors and an interesting technique for applying them. Even with our limited art...

Tips On Making Popularity-Winning Lunches For Kids

Taking your lunch to school has become all the rage with the recent wave of concerned moms and dads. Lunches that are dished out at school, although they meet strict standards, aren't really all that ...

Breakfast Fun: Spell Things With Your Pancakes

Tired of round pancakes? Maybe even the standard chubby pancake man is losing his charm. Mix things up with pancake letters instead, like reader Jackie who sent us these cute photos of her own breakfa...

Summer Project: Make Vegetable Maki Sushi With Kids!

Here's a really fun and easy DIY project to do with kids this summer - hand-rolled vegetable maki sushi rolls! The ingredients you'll need are cheap and easy to find. Making your own maki sushi roll...

Family Mealtime: How To Make Your Own Baby Food
Guest Post from Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet

This isn’t a lecture about making your own baby food. I will only ask this: why wouldn't you? Sure, it takes a bit of time and a bit of freezer room. But other than a blender, food mill, food proce...

Family Mealtime: Cooking for Babies
Guest Post from Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet

There is no doubt that I am inherently a food snob, and it is no secret that I’m trying to turn my kids into foodies too. I believe that what we feed our babies — and how we do it — can ...

Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids by Beth Sheresh
Book Review 2009

Do your kids help out with the cooking in your house? Whether they're toddlers or teenagers, Beth Sheresh thinks that there are lots of ways that kids can contribute in the kitchen - not to mention th...

Good Food With Evan Kleiman: Homemade Bubble Gum

Remember summer days of bubble-blowing contests and sticky chins? Part of our memories also include the anxious minutes at the corner store trying to decide which brightly colored package of gum to c...

Conscientious Cook: Local Food for Local Schools

"The processing of our food is profoundly disgusting, and the accumulation of packaging fills a giant barrel at my school every day." That's a quote from 5th-grader Aden Kahr of Olympia, Washington...

How to Bake With Kids: Tips and Ideas

Cooking with kids is a remarkably fun and rewarding experience, amd baking is one of the easiest (and fun) ways to cook with kids. Whether you have kids or not, you probably have at least one or two...