Artichokes are my daughter’s favorite veggie of all. Think about it from a kid’s perspective: it’s a giant, green flower that you can eat with your hands.  And you get to dip those lovely, curvy ‘petals’ into something tasty like butter or lemon or a combination of both. And ...

This Cooking With My Kid is really starting to pay off! My daughter made smooshed (her description) rainbow potatoes, roasted green cauliflower and our version of healthy chicken nuggets (all while dressed in her fancy dress). I may have helped with the chicken and cutting and removal of hot items ...

My family is famous for grazing. As the story goes, one summer we were all at a lake house and my grandmother spent the afternoon roasting a big chicken for dinner.  The whole extended family was staying there and each person that walked by the cooling chicken took a ...

I’m allergic to bok choy. You read that right. So bizarre, right? I used to love it but since I can no longer eat it, Macki volunteered to cook some up for the blog. This looks so good I’m almost willing to eat some and pretend my tongue isn’t ...

My daughter is a budding green thumb, she gets this from my mother and it skipped a generation. We are currently growing  mint and I love it because it is a relatively easy plant to keep alive. OK, it’s more than relatively easy, I have discovered that it can ...

Those model hands you are looking at are Mr. CookingWithMyKid’s. No, he did not cook this dish. As I’ve mentioned in the past, he hasn’t the skills. (No matter how hard I try it’s not going to happen.) He does, however, have lovely hands and always well kept fingernails ...

Have you ever bought a hunk of feta that comes floating in water? I just did for the first time ever. Dang! That’s good feta. So good that I’ve found myself re-imagining every dish on earth to include feta. It’s a real problem for my husband who hates feta. ...

A friend was recently telling me she shared Annie, her favorite childhood movie, with her daughter and watched her fall in love.  Hearing her tell the story reminded me that this is one of the things I love most about being a mom – sharing childhood favorites with my kids ...

My kids love cheesy bread, which to them is an open face grilled cheese. When I saw the recipe in America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook for a lowfat cheese bread and went over the recipe with Sylvie, she was delighted at the thought of cheese cooked inside the ...

Here is another remake of a not-so-healthy after school snack, the classic Hot Pocket. This baby sitter friendly meal is an updated version of the “hot meal in a pocket” is not only much healthier than the super processed frozen kind, it takes about the same amount of time ...