Tropical Any-Grain Salad
I’m getting back into teaching. It’s been a while year since I last offered Parents Need to Eat Too, the class. Heck, my cookbook hadn’t even come out yet! This time around, I’m taking a slightly different approach: Rather than teaching a handful of women who don’t know each other in my own kitchen or ...Keep Reading
Don’t Call It a Smoothie: Triple-Berry Fruit Soup
My kid’s a freak. This probably isn’t news to you, since I write about his food weirdness all the time, but last night’s dinner request was a doozy. At the end of a 90-something-degree day, which we spent sweating at the kiddie amusement park inside Central Park, my darling boy wanted soup for dinner. Soup. ...Keep Reading
On Buying Organics
I’m amazed I’ve never written about this here before (I did in my book, so maybe that’s why I felt like I’d covered it?): Each year the Environmental Working Group analyzes USDA and FDA data concerning pesticide residue on conventionally-grown produce. Essentially, they crunch a bunch of numbers and figure out which fruits and vegetables ...Keep Reading
Perfect for Father’s Day? Parmesan-Stuffed Dates Wrapped in Bacon
Stephen’s been asking me to make dates wrapped in bacon for oh, nine years now. We met nine years ago. But, y’know, I grew up kosher. I lurves me some super-crisp bacon, and pepperoni pizza is always welcome—but only outside my home. Inside, I’m all about turkey bacon. And I knew turkey bacon wasn’t going ...Keep Reading
Genius: Chocolate Chip Cookie “Cupcakes”
I don’t throw around the word “genius” lightly. And I’d certainly never apply it to myself. (OK, maybe I did, once.) But my friend Amanda Bergman has taken a shine to my chocolate chip cookie recipe—seriously, judging by the frequency of her posting cookie pictures on Facebook, she’s probably made more of them than I ...Keep Reading
