Anyone who knows Jolly Tomato knows that we are a sucker for both funny food and Tim Burton. So what better excuse to start the Halloween fun food season than the opening of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie this weekend? Frankenweenie tells the story of a young boy who loses his beloved dog and then devises a Frankenstein-style science experiment to bring the dog [...]
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Fun Food: Star Cakes
Everyone – no really, everyone – seems to be cooking in patriotic colors over the Fourth of July weekend. Last year we did our best to come up with cool red, white & blue foods for the holiday (pancakes, potato salad, and blue chips and salsa). This year we found an even more exhaustive list [...]
Fun Food Friday: Fruit Milk
Big news in the Los Angeles area this week: LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy announced that L.A. schools will eliminate chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk from their menus. The move came in response to activists led by Food Revolution’s Jamie Oliver, who has hounded the district on school lunch reform for weeks since his arrival in L.A. Several [...]
Fun Food Saturday: Pasta
Folks who are buried under snow have it pretty tough right now, but they have one thing those of us in L.A. don’t have: a great excuse to stay indoors and cook all day long. Fortunately, one of the best chefs we know, Chef Joe of Friday Night Out Catering in Philadelphia, took advantage of [...]
Fun Food Saturday: Granola
There are very few recipes that are more forgiving than granola. You can add just about anything, you can add too much of something, or you can forget an ingredient altogether and it’s still impossible to mess up. More likely you’ll just wind up inventing a nice new variation. That – and the fact that [...]
Fun Food Saturday: Marshmallows
Happy 2011! Ready to ring in the new year with one of the most fun foods on the planet? How about making your own marshmallows? We gave it a try over the holiday break (yes, we realize we won’t win any nutritional awards for this), and although the process itself wasn’t entirely kid-friendly, the results sure were. We [...]
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.
