Last weekend for my birthday I asked my family to join me in a neighborhood cleanup of the local park and stream where we walk our dogs every day. We collected a trash bag full of candy wrappers, plastic bags, and countless Styrofoam and paper coffee cups that people had either tossed or that had [...]

In our house we foster a spirit of inventiveness and creativity in the kitchen.  Since the kids see me creating new recipes every day for PBS Parents and The Six O’Clock Scramble, they think experimentation in the kitchen is the norm. They aren’t afraid of making cooking snafus, since they see it happen to me [...]

Guest column by Six O’Clock Scramble intern Molly Rubel  Nearly three million Americans are allergic to nuts, including me!  A common misconception is that nut-allergic people are only allergic to peanuts, but many of us are allergic to every kind of nut. If I were to eat a nut, I would go into anaphylactic shock, [...]

This one goes into the category of things we never knew we needed and now can’t live without! I met Leyla and her son Ron at a gourmet market in Bethesda, MD. I love coffee, and I love ice cream, but I’ve never been a huge fan of coffee ice cream, or at least I’m [...]

                            My son Solomon is overjoyed when I make these wholesome muffins, adapted from a recipe in Real Simple magazine and suggested by our friend Jody Gan. He loves having one or two for breakfast and another one after school for a [...]

I guess everything good eventually comes back into vogue. I remember the frozen yogurt fad in the 1970s, when my parents tried to convince me that “frogurt” was as good as ice cream. Ha! I remained loyal to Baskin & Robbins. Now, however, my kids beg me to take them out for frozen yogurt, but [...]

Andrew and the kids love drinking milkshakes, but taking the family out for shakes and scoops can easily set us back $15 – $20, so it’s a splurge. That’s why we usually scoop our own ice cream and make our own milkshakes and other frozen desserts. You can treat your family to a delicious strawberry [...]