Happy New Year, Yummies! When we left New York City a couple of weeks ago to go visit my family in California, I planned on just taking a few days’ break from blogging. It seems that I was more exhausted than I even knew. The beginning of this pregnancy, with its extreme nausea, had taken […]
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Last winter when we created a kid-friendly chicken tagine in class, a few of the vegetarian parents asked how they could make the dish without the addition of meat. While vegetarian cooking does take more thought for flavor development and, at times, more creativity to bring up the protein level to make it healthful for […]
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To kick off our fourth year of cooking classes with the mini-chefs, we made a family recipe given to me by my mom. Chalupas are sort of like soft tacos, but are made with corn tortillas that have been buttered and barely fried. Inside, my mom puts Spanish rice, cheese, and of course refritos, or […]
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When my class of 3 year-olds requested a few more lunch ideas, these croquettes came to mind, and I decided to rework them for a gluten-free diet, using crushed rice crackers instead of bread crumbs. By sheer accident-as often happens when new recipes are born-we forgot to roll the balls in the crumbs at all […]
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The Tribeca Yummy Mummy kitchen got a whole lot fuller last yesterday when all the kids from my daughter’s pre-K class came over to help me make sweet potato pie. We used the filling for my sweet potato casserole and, instead of marshmallows on top, we cut out puff pastry shapes and sprinkled crumbled amaretti […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…