Quick Tip Tuesday: Parmesan Rind
It’s Tuesday, and I’ve got a quick kitchen tip to share with you. Which means I’m hereby christening today Quick Tip Tuesday. Should I happen to have another quick kitchen tip for you, and should it happen to fall on a Monday, well, I guess I’ll have to hold it back for a day. Rules ...Keep Reading
Roast Your Chicken Bones for Richer Stock
Look how deliciously, deeply brown it is! Chilling your stock makes it easy to remove the excess fat, which congeals on top. Sometimes I make mistakes. And sometimes that turns out to be a good thing. The other day, I pulled some chicken parts out of my overstuffed freezer and set them in the fridge ...Keep Reading
Food for Thought: 5 Ways Hurried Moms Can Make Math Easy
Laura Laing is a writer friend whose new book, Math for Grownups: Re-Learn the Arithmetic You Forgot from School, is perfect for people like me, who sorta remember how to figure out percentages by hand but never actually trust that the final number is correct… Who know that there are 16 tablespoons in a cup, ...Keep Reading
Newsflash: Bribe Your Kids and They’ll Eat Vegetables
So says a recent study, in which children aged four to six were offered small rewards for eating a vegetable they’d said they didn’t like. After three months, when the rewards were no longer being offered, most of those kids still voluntarily ate the vegetable in question. Children who’d received no incentive, for the most ...Keep Reading
Chopsticks: Easier Than They Look
All it takes is a rubber band at the top, and even a four-year-old can swing a pair. Sorta. Until he decides it’s easier to just eat with his hands… (Note that he’s attacking a bowl of plain noodles, while next to him is an apparently not-at-all-tempting bowl of delicious homemade Chicken Lo Mein, the ...Keep Reading
