Summer Preview: Ginger-Mint Fruit Salad
Seriously, Memorial Day is Monday? That has to be a mistake. My calendar says we’re only in mid—no wait, late—May. Oh. Guess I’d better lose that five ten pounds, pronto. While the weather here in NYC already leans toward summery (translation: I’m sweaty and sticky and gross, but our air conditioners aren’t hooked up yet), ...Keep Reading
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
(Meatless Mostdays) Pam Anderson’s Cook without a Book: Meatless Meals
You know how sometimes, when you finally meet an idol, you totally screw it up? You don’t? Oh. Well then you’ll really get a kick out of this story. Two weeks ago I attended the launch event for Kat Flinn’s new book, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School—I wrote about it here. You may recall I ...Keep Reading
Summery Swiss Chard, Corn, Peach, and Quinoa Salad
I’ll make this brief, since I’m due to return the copyedited manuscript for Parents Need to Eat Too* to my editor, um, last week. All 651 pages of it. There is so.much packed into this cookbook! It overflows with recipes, ideas, kitchen hacks, and information—from other moms, from nutrition and lactation experts, and from, well, ...Keep Reading
Picky Eater Special: Korean-Style Beef Lettuce Wraps with Ginger-Lime Noodles
Picky eaters and hot weather don’t always mix. While Harry’s always down for fruit, which in summertime opens a huge window of opportunity, when it comes to dinner most of my barely-cooked options aren’t exactly met with enthusiasm. He refuses Black Bean, Corn, and Tomato Salad before it hits his plate: too many ingredients touching ...Keep Reading






