Roses? Rubies? If you want to show Mom some truly brilliant shades of red and pink for Mother’s Day, serve her some beets. That’s right, beets. Even though we live on a different coast from our mom, we know she’d love this brightly hued beet soup. It’s super-easy and super-tasty – simple enough for Dad [...]
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Strawberry Feast
What do you do when you have a bumper crop of strawberries and a house full of people? Make a strawberry feast, of course. Following our strawberry farm tour with the California Strawberry Commission we were inspired to use our strawberries for just about every item on the dinner table this week. We started with [...]
Spring Strawberry Mini-jitos
Too bad kids don’t get to drink mojitos. They’re all light and fruity, and there’s usually something that’s green and flavorful floating in it too. Plus, there’s muddling. Not enough foods get muddled, in our opinion. In honor of spring, we thought we’d make a kid-friendly, nonalcoholic mojito, which we’re calling a “mini-jito” (after rejecting [...]
Tag-Team Cooking
Didja hear the one about the lady who tried to pitch a cookbook idea on Twitter? Yeah, that was me. And it might not be as crazy as it sounds. Here’s the scoop: Literary agent Sally Ekus of the Lisa Ekus Group launched a contest earlier this month to solicit great cookbook ideas on Twitter. [...]
Avocado-Key Lime Pie for Pi Day
Happy Pi Day! (3-14). What kind of pie are you making today? Ours is a California Avocado Yogurt Key Lime Pie. It’s a sweet and tangy pie, and the avocados give it a nice creamy texture. In fact, it’s about 3.14159 times better than your average pie! California Avocado Yogurt Key Lime Pie, via the [...]
Green Food The Natural Way
Each year when St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, we get inundated with images of food in unnatural shades of green. This always makes us scratch our heads because some of the most beautiful green foods we’ve ever seen come straight from the earth, no food dyes required. True, there aren’t that many naturally green desserts, [...]
Hi! I'm Jeanne Fratello - a writer, reporter, and a mom who is on a mission to find great food for kids and to keep parents up to date on the latest nutrition news. You can read more about me here.
