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Why you should spend all day making a Strawberry Meringue Cake for your...
Strawberries aren’t in season this time of year, but don’t let that stop you from making this cake. It’s red, sweet and special; perfect for Valentine’s Day. Don’t let this stop you either: If you add...
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Frozen yogurt drops
The other day David asked me for a banana, and when I handed it to him he looked at me the way I look at people when they say “literally” when they should have said “figuratively”. Turns out, the...
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A Lightning McQueen birthday cake
I thought long and hard about a theme for David’s third birthday. For his first and second birthdays I chose based on the decoration potential. This year I thought long and hard about David’s interests...
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A sophisticated palate
Can you tell what Mary Virginia is chewing on? It’s an onion. A raw onion. It’s the raw onion I stashed under her crib to try to heal her ear infection. She found it and walked around the house...
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Forget everything you ever thought you knew about roasting pumpkin seeds
We didn’t get around to carving our pumpkins in time for Halloween this year. To me, that’s terrible foreshadowing. If I can’t get ready for Halloween in time, then I might as well just forget about...
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Parade of cakes
My sister has four kids, and they all have birthdays in the eight-week span between January 10 and March 6. As if that wasn’t enough celebrating, my sister’s, mom’s, and Granny’s birthdays are in...
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Blackberry pie
I’ve mentioned before that Tom doesn’t really love dessert. That’s just one way he keeps such a trim frame of mostly sinew and muscle. He does love my homemade blackberry pie, though. I made it for...
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Grilled mushroom + sausage + arugula pizza
When I was pregnant I had an aversion to arugula. It wasn’t the taste, it was the texture — the wiry stems. I couldn’t eat sausage either. Once again, the texture. It was a shame, because I had no...
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Strawberry chia seed jam
There was a time in David’s life when he wasn’t a picky eater. He ate every single thing we put in front of him. Green beans! Butternut squash! Catfish! Tofu! I’m ashamed to admit I was smug. I gave...
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Just in time for Thanksgiving
I don’t often give parenting advice here, but Thomas asked me to tell you about this. Give your babies a chicken bone. A chicken bone, cooked and stripped — it’s nature’s teether. All my babies have...
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Sneaky food swaps for picky eaters
Alternate title: How I’ve kept my kids from getting scurvy on their preferred diet of jelly beans and begging for jelly beans. At David’s 5-year check up, the doctor asked if he ate a variety of...
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Healthy snacks and happy kids. (Actually, happy everyone.)
When I wrote about packing as much nutrition into my kids’ foods [here!], I completely forgot to mention SNACKS. Snacks are so, so important for kids. I read once that at least 25 percent of a child’s...
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Made with little hands and big heart
It’s almost Thanksgiving, and I wanted to do a little something for my kids’ preschool teachers. I sort of struggle to tell my kids’ teachers that I’m thankful for them because just saying it seems...
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Raisin Bran Chia granola bars
We eat a lot of granola bars in our house. They’re portable, usually mess-free, and they’re good at sneaking in healthy ingredients. Plus, they’re almost always delicious. Most granola bars have nuts,...
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Preheat to 350, if you can get around to it
Any serious baker or pastry chef knows — the secret to amazing results is precision. Serious bakers weigh the ingredients because measuring cups are approximate at best. They use...
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Make nap time extraordinary — for mom
I became a stay-at-home mom almost six years ago, and one thing (among many) I’ve struggled with for that entire six years is taking time for myself. It’s one aspect of parenting that doesn’t change....
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Homemade margaritas
I grew up with a pool, and you could say my childhood summers were basically just one pool party after another. I learned a lot watching my mom and dad host pool parties. I learned from my dad that...
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Beet pancakes and veggies for breakfast
I’ve written before about how most of my brain power is used up with figuring out ways to get vegetables into my kids’ diet. Recently I’ve stumbled upon some tips that I have to share, because even if...
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Raw corn salsa with lime, cilantro and cumin
A few weeks I asked in an Instagram story if anyone thought it was maybe, um, a bad idea to eat a gigantic bowl of corn salsa. Like, is that the sort of thing that you regret later? SIDE NOTE: when...
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No-bake Cinnamon-sugar Twinkie bites
Wanna hear something crazy? I ate my first Twinkie in adulthood. I know, call the police. My parents withheld Twinkies. I also didn’t know J.Crew was an actual store (I thought it was just mail order)...
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