What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids: Twins Making Quesadillas
It’s not very often that I come across dads on Twitter…and even less common are dads talking about child nutrition. TwinToddlersDad caught my attention because of his dedication for making child nutrition interesting and easy to understand. Plus, he often writes about cooking with his adorable twins.
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids: Twins Making Quesadillas
It’s been a couple of months since the last round of “They go really well together” where food bloggers around the world explore food pairings based on similarities in their aroma profiles .
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TGRWT #21: Sage and roasted peanuts
– Seasoned pieces of pork shoulder, deep fried in fresh lard – Cooked sous vide in pouch with tequila/beer/chile sauce for 24 hours @ 155F – Served on fresh corn tortillas with cooked-down sauce Ultra-tender, juicy meat with a mellow, yet spicy sauce. Keeper!
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Latest sous vide creation – Carnitas de Doña Carmen Titita in the Style of El Bajío
Thanks to Cheryl for her thoughts about cooking with her young girls! I am thrilled that she offered to participate in What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids! (I love her blog and adore many of the blogs in her blogroll – maybe What’s Cooking will make it there one day!) Take it away, Cheryl… I often spend my
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids: Babka is a Family Affair
Many thanks to Erin, who shared this fantastic post from her blog, One Particular Kitchen. Some of my very favorite kids came over to play yesterday — a nine year old boy and 5-year-old twin girls, and of course two year old Kiddo, who is a permanent fixture. The girls’ favorite game at my house is,
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What’s Cooking With YOUR Kids: Cupcake Playdate
Jean Yves Wilmot explains his tomato gels to Gene Bervoets Making gels with fruits that are high in pectin is not particularily challenging. Addition of sugar promotes pectin gel formation with low methoxyl (LM) pectin, but the drawback is that you need a lot of sugar, typically around 50%.
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TFP 2010: Tomato gels with the pectin that’s there (part 6)
Every year, I look forward to the Great American Bake Sale. It is a perfect event for me and my students. We already cook together – and this gives us an important reason to make some sweets for a change.
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Snickerdoodles with 3rd Graders: Great American Bake Sale
This is part 2 of our second task force meeting on school lunch reform in the San Rafael City Schools. I’ll start this post with an apology. It isn’t going to be funny. Not even a little bit. And that makes me sad. Given the horrible financial state-of-affairs in our local school district, it is hard to
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School Lunch Reform: Central Kitchen Renovation
Facebook now has been estimated as having upwards of 400 million users. There are so many people on Facebook literally every person I know is on Facebook including my 50 year old mother (albeit against her will..).
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Proper Facebook Etiquette
Illustration: Variety of Quinault basketry The Quinault have always lived on the Olympic Peninsula in what is now present day Washington State. The Quinault used basketry throughout their culture for a variety of domestic uses from cooking, storage and gathering, to even costume as can be seen in the two photographs showing a woman wearing a woven hat
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Quinault Basktery
One of the good things about living in Oslo are the coffee bars. Norwegians drink a lot of coffe (a healthy dose of 9.9 kg anually per capita , only second to the Finnish) and perhaps that is one reason why there are so many coffee bars around
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Testing salt in coffee with Tim Wendelboe
This is my new favorite way to cook carrots. serves 4 combine in a small bowl: 1/4 cup vegetable (or chicken) broth 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch Heat a wok over high heat;when wok is hot, add 1 tablespoons vegetable oil . When the oil is hot, add 4 medium size carrots (sliced diagonally into 1/4 inch slices) and 1 small onion (cut in half then cut crosswise into 1/4 inch slices) stir-fry for 1 minute.
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Sweet and Sour Carrots
This recipe came from Sunset Magazine’s Stir fry Cookbook that I bought in Thrifttown for 99c, yup not even a dollar! Makes 4 servings. 2 tablespoons salad oil 1 pound lean boneless pork, cut into thin strips 2 cloves garlic 1 1/2 cups water 3 large russet potatoes (I used 1 1/2 lbs of papas chambray instead) The recipe calls for peeling the potatoes and cutting crosswise into 1/2 inch slices.
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Five Spice Pork and Potatoes Stir-fry
A small sprinkle of salt will suppress bitterness – and in some cases it can benefit the overall coffee flavor. I’ve tried it with an espresso and somehow it works, but it’s difficult to describe the flavor. I prefer my coffee black, and politely decline when offered milk and sugar.
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A pinch of salt for your coffee, Sir?
Jump to the full entry & travel map Yorkville, California, United States I got up at 9:30 today, got ready, rushed through my last blog and packed all my stuff out of The Inn. I was the last to breakfast, at 11:00, with a PB&B.
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My Last Work Day and Post at Le Vin — Yorkville, California, United States
It’s a small world. What are the odds that of the 7 times I was on ABC’s View From the Bay, two of them would be the same as Rona Renner, radio show host and nurse extraordinaire. Imagine my surprise when I saw her in the green room a second time…It felt as if the
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Tips for Battling Childhood Obesity: I was on the radio!
Who doesn’t want to have a sumptuous feast- homemade one! And when the kitchen is beautiful, the cooking experience too gets out of this world (along with the eating experience!) However, not all of… [[ This is a content summary only.
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Kitchen Remodeling Ideas for Ravishing Kitchen!
Growing up in Alabama, you had to be either an Alabama fan or an Auburn fan. In high school, you were a sophomore, a senior, or a whole group of other labels that I’m choosing to forget.
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Makers & Tasters: Labels in the Kitchen
One of the most popular cooking class series that we teach is called Recipes from Books and Movies. In honor of my friend Amy, who recently came to town compliments of Bush’s Beans, I thought I’d share this class favorite. Step on the Gas Baked Beans Cars, by Pixar Almost every time I make beans with my
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Cars-Themed Recipe: Step on the Gas Baked Beans
A huge thanks to my friend Christine Koh, from Boston Mamas, for this week’s installment of What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids. Christine and I met nearly two years ago (Gasp! Has it really been that long?) when I started writing for her awesome website, Boston Mamas. She must be wonderful if she still lets me
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What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids: Letting the Child Take Charge…