With the lure of fresh baked goods, luscious fruit, chocolate and the occasional adorable puppy, my kids usually don’t need to much more incentive to come with me to the farmer’s market (or the “farmer”, as they used to call it.) Nonetheless, I love this creative scavenger hunt that Michelle Stern of the fabulous What’s Cooking Blog put together for parents, teachers or camp counselors to do with kids when they visit the farm markets.
Taste buds are mystifying things. How is it possible that I could gobble up fresh steamed beets like candy, while they disgust my friend Jeanne (and a lot of other people I know)? Or that for many food lovers mushrooms are a delicacy, while for others like my colleague Betsy, they are repulsive? Sure, we all have certain foods that we love or hate with a passion, but in my 12 years of creating and
While not as easy as buying a box of Kim & Scott’s pretzels, making your own soft pretzels is a really fun activity to do with the kids. We like to invite a couple of friends over and make our own warm pretzels, especially when we are less harried during school holidays. We got this recipe from the summer cooking camp that Celia attended at Just Cakes in Bethesda, Maryland. Soft Pretzels 2 little packages
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I wanted to share these excellent suggestions for freezing our fresh herbs, for those of us who will lose most of them when the air dips below freezing this fall. The advice below come from my epicurean friends, Bettina and Suzanne, at www.loulies.com: A Word About Herbs (from Loulies) Growing herbs is one of the most rewarding aspects of our summer “gardens” (albeit, pots on the back porch and scrappy front yard plantings). Before you
