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Baking with kids: Chocolate-banana cookies
My son (5 years old) wrote a recipe. He did all by himself. I’m so proud and happy. That’s’ the recipe: Don’t try to read it, it is written in another language, but he also drew pictures of the...
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Baking with kids: Chocolate-banana cookies, recreating the magic – Part I
A while ago I bragged about how my son, who is 5 years old, wrote a recipe for Chocolate-banana cookies. A recipe! From scratch! All by himself! And no one asked him too. He made mommy, that’s me,...
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Holiday Gift Ideas for Kids Who Cook
When my son was 3 years old, he got a Home depot tool box from Toys R Us for his birthday. That was one of the best gifts ever. He played with it a lot, by himself or when he was “helping” his dad...
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Cooking with Kids: “Feast Lesson”
Once a week I take my son, who is 5 years old, to do the grocery shopping with me. It’s a lot of fun (but wasn’t always like that). I love to see how his interest and excitement about food grows and...
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Fish ‘n chips
Sometimes I let the guys cook. They play in the kitchen, taking their time, talking, discussing the recipe, but using tongs because they don’t like touching the food and getting their hands dirty, ha...
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Junior “cooks” a family portrait
Tonight I asked Junior (7 years old) to make dinner. While I cleaned up the scattered toys in the family room–his job–he “cooked” dinner–my job. A fair enough trade? Dad: Junior (Looks like Dad, but...
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Kids cookbooks, only for girls?
There’s so much I have to say about this: In short, it makes me a little angry. And somewhat frustrated, as a person, as a woman, and as a mother to a boy and a girl. I was merely looking for a...
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Kids cookbooks: Part 2
So… I ended up buying this book… (Because I had a store credit at Williams-Sonoma and I really don’t need anything from the store right now.) My son’s reaction as he unwrapped the gift and saw the book...
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Fresh
Thinking about my recent trip to Israel, I realize that fresh and good food was so easy to find there, and at relatively inexpensive prices. The restaurant at the beach, the little falafel shop, the...
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Detox: What about the kids?
A reader recently asked (as well as participants in my new cooking classes) how are the kids doing and what are they eating, since I started with the detox diet and all the changes that followed. “I...
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