I am deeply honored that this post is featured in the Holiday Roundup at Oprah.com. Welcome, Oprah.com readers! Happy Holidays to you
Do you remember the song from Sound of Music called “My Favorite Things”? It reminds me of the wintery holiday season, especially these phrases: snowflakes that stay on my nose and [...]
I am deeply honored that this post is featured in the Holiday Roundup at Oprah.com.
During the past few weeks, my son’s class has been reading various versions of Stone Soup. In case you don’t know the story, it is an old French tale about three hungry soldiers who use trickery to convince the inhabitants of a [...]
I got a blast from the past this morning when I opened my email. I was surprised to see a note from a mom in my daughter’s playgroup 9 years ago! She was writing to ask me about a holiday gift that I had given her way back then…a layered brownie mix I made for [...]
The first session of my Mommy & Me cooking classes is over, and won’t resume until after the holidays. In the meantime, though, I thought I’d share our most recent class with you. With the recent swine flu epidemic, most of my students stayed home – but my favorite little guy showed up, and we [...]
As you probably know by now, my SOUP fundraiser with Studio 4 Art is quickly approaching. Hopefully we have inspired you with lots of photos of kids cooking and making soup bowls – but just in case, here are a few more! These were taken with my son’s second grade class, as we made a [...]
Each week, my mommy & me cooking class has been cooking and eating our way through the alphabet. Last week’s class was the letter D. Take a look at these photos and see if you can guess what we made…
“D” is for…Deviled Egg
Ingredients
1 dozen eggs
2 teaspoons dijon mustard
1/3 cup mayonnaise
Salt and pepper, to taste
Paprika, for [...]
For the third year in a row, I found myself cooking with an eager and hungry group of kids atop hay bales in the middle of Full Belly Farm. We were sitting outside with dust in the air, ants skittering around, and hay bits clinging to our ingredients. It was a far cry from cooking [...]
