Please check out my first podcast, part of a recent appearance on DocSmo.com!! DocSmo.com is the website of Charlotte, NC pediatrician and children’s health blogger Dr. Paul Smolen. Here is the link: http://www.docsmo.com/peanuts-for-your-peanut/ For a summary, read on: DocSmo and I teamed up to give you a special post about a topic that is very … Continue reading Rethinking Peanuts for Babies
There are two foods that are traditionally eaten by Jews on Chanukah (Hannouca in French): latkes and sufganyot, or jelly-filled donuts. This Chanukah, I had the idea to make a treat that is similar to sufganyot, but is a traditionally eaten in France at carnaval. In the St. Etienne and Lyon area, where my husband … Continue reading Bugnes de Hannouca
Just wanted to share a really interesting article from NPR today about cookbooks printed by women in the suffrage movement. I have always loved antique cookbooks and I’m very interested to take a look at some of these! How Suffragists Used Cookbooks As A Recipe For Subversion http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/05/454246666/how-suffragists-used-cookbooks-as-a-recipe-for-subversion Continue reading Suffragette cookbooks
I wanted to re-post about a cool trick I came up with that has become one of my go-to breakfasts, even on hurried school mornings. And that is the Pancakelette, or what has now become more of a crêpelette, which is my way of getting an egg into my non-egg-loving kiddo. Rather than following the … Continue reading Egg-cognito Crêpes
Lately I’ve been thinking a bit about entertaining among people of my generation and younger. My question was- is entertaining becoming an art of the past? In my experience, organizing social events at home has become much less popular in recent years (exception perhaps for my upstairs neighbor in Chicago who regularly hosted lively gatherings that ended with breakfast…) Here … Continue reading The Art of the Party
My aunt recently gave me a cookbook that was prepared as a fundraiser for an organization that she has been giving her time and energy to for many years. It’s called A Better World, and it’s a wonderful after-school program that gives low-income children a safe and enriching environment in the after-school hours. (Read more … Continue reading A Box of this and a Can of that – A Great American Tradition
The last couple days have been the kick-off to the Jewish high holidays, and we have been cooking up a storm. Kugel, honey cake, apples, and other sweet dishes, are all traditional as the Jewish year comes to an end, and we wish for a sweet new year to come. At the end of this … Continue reading A Sweet New Year
As I pull my yellow currant tomatoes and purple green beans out of my garden, I am reminded of how pleasurable heirloom varietals are to grow. Like a funny-looking mutt, at first they might seem a bit ugly or unusual, but their oddities grow on you and soon the usual ones seem dull in comparison. … Continue reading Heirlooms
Today I would like to post my first entry in what I hope will be a recurring feature of the blog, and that is kids’ (and adults’) tasting panel. I thought what better product to start with than what seems like one of the fastest growing markets for kids food products: yogurt pouches. There is … Continue reading Tasting Panel – Kids’ Yogurt
Just wanted to give you guys a heads up about a cool new website called the Raw Spice Bar, that delivers fresh spices to your door and helps you use them in authentic international recipes. According to the website, this is what you get with each delivery: 3-4 freshly ground spice blends from one geography or … Continue reading Just Launched – Raw Spice Bar
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