Recipe for Cooking with Toddlers
I love when people ask me for tips about cooking with their kids. Sometimes I feel really qualified to answer. Other times, not so much. But I got excited when someone on Twitter asked me for tips on how to make cooking with her 2 year old less frustrating… Ingredients: 1 gallon Patience 1 pinch Expectations Several squirts of Hand Soap 2 dozen... [Read more]
DooF Camp Auditions!
DooF (F-o-o-D backwards) will be holding auditions to choose four kids and one alternate to film six videos this spring and summer. DooF offers a new way to explore food from a wide range of perspectives: backwards, forwards, sideways, right-side-up, upside-down and inside-out, connecting the dots through television, the Web, events, recipes and educational... [Read more]
A Duck For Dinner: A Source-to-Table Fable
• From Capture to Cleanup, a Duck for Dinner • Where I live in Northern California we have a rich supply of wild foods. I’ve often thought to cook a meal from things that grow nearby: watercress and crawfish from the creek blackberries from the brambles quail wild radish and mustard from the meadow Add a few chanterelle mushrooms collected... [Read more]
“When Doof Becomes a Good Thing” (a blog post from Urban Sprig)
Despite having a website titled DooF, to their credit, the founders of the site and subsequent educational program, are some pretty smart cookies. Doof, as you might have already guessed, is simply food spelled backwards….READ MORE Urban Sprig provides information to parents and children about food and family-centered activities. The above entry... [Read more]
A New Year’s Revolution
I don’t mean to sound subversive, but I think it would be great if we all started our own New Year’s revolution and resolved to eat more organic produce. If you’ve been thinking about including more organic foods in your diet there’s help from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and their list of the “Dirty Dozen.” They’re not talking... [Read more]
“Avoid Food-Like Substances” & Other Pollan Ideas
I am a huge fan of Michael Pollan. He does his research and then gives it to us straight. You never have to wonder what he is really thinking. He is all about eating fresh food. Real food. Yes, I said “real food.” As opposed to “fake food.” In case you are curious what fake food might entail, it includes items like the... [Read more]