Kitchen Kid is delighted to be a presenter at the Good Food Festival, celebrating 30 years of the Santa Monica Farmers Market. Join us on Saturday, September 17 as we harvest lettuce and enjoy a holistic approach to edible education! Complete event details available at: www.goodfoodfestivals.com. About the Good Food Festival: The very first SouthernRead More
You Won’t Believe What We are Cooking!
July 15, 2011 • 1 Comment
I kid you not: 15 carnivorous kids just chose a vegan beet burger on a handmade potato bun as the winner of Wednesday’s Iron Chef challenge! And a red velvet cake (colored with beets!) with strawberry icing came in a close second. Our kitchen cranked out incredible root vegetable dishes — after the kids shoppedRead More
Baby Barnes Gets Gifted!
January 22, 2010 • 1 Comment
It’s so exciting to be a mom-to-be! Of course, I am surrounded by kids and moms every day, sharing my love for healthy kitchen fun in schools and homes throughout LA. But somehow everything feels just a little bit different now as I make my way into the final month of pregnancy. I find myselfRead More
Cooking: Not Just for Mom & Dad
March 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Still looking for more reasons to get cooking with your kids??? Our friends at gastrokid.com posted a great Top Ten today. (Perhaps the introduction to their forthcoming book?) My favorite is right in-line with Michelle Obama’s remark last week. 1. Feed Them Perfect Produce Buy the best, ripe, in-season, local produce you can find, whetherRead More
In These “Difficult Economic Times,” Save Up for the Dentist
March 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment
It sounds totally crazy to me that candy stores are reporting sales that are up by as much as 80%. And that candy makers, like Nestle, Cadbury, and Hershey are seeing double-digit increases in sales and production. People complain about the rising cost of food and paying too much for a dozen cage-free eggs, butRead More
Oh, Trader Joes
February 13, 2009 • Leave a Comment
For better or worse, I find myself at Trader Joe’s at least 3 or 4 days each week. Sometimes I think I’m there enough to pick up a few part time shifts. While I’m shopping. They wouldn’t even need to train me — I’m pretty sure I know all the secrets. Like that Thursday eveningsRead More
Dexter v. the “Other” 4-Year Old
January 9, 2009 • 2 Comments
Before you get too excited about New York Times’ dining editor Pete Wells’ new magazine column, “Cooking with Dexter” — the culinary adventure of his 4-year old foodie son — be sure to read Larissa Phillips’ fabulously funny and dead-on response, available on her blog, Mothership Meals and Satellite Saucers. An honest reminder that GrowingRead More
Make a New Year’s Kitchen Resolution!!!
December 27, 2008 • Leave a Comment
For many kids, New Year’s Eve means chowing down on pizza and soda while watching movies with the babysitter. But my childhood tradition on December 31st was very different. For me, New Year’s Eve meant driving 2 hours into New York City to shop at the specialty market, Zabars. It meant donning my fanciest dress-upRead More
DeeDee, Meet Nintendo DS
December 6, 2008 • 1 Comment
My great-grandmother DeeDee was born over a century ago. In the 90+ years of her life, she witnessed everything from the Great Depression (that’d be 1.0), and the golden years of Ford (not 2008), to the proliferation of telecommunications and the personal computer. She nearly saw Al Gore invent the Internet. But if there wasRead More
Lessons in Gnocchi and Life
October 9, 2008 • Leave a Comment
I spent the last 2 weeks eating my way through Paris, France and Piedmont, Italy. From steak tartare and moulles frites to fresh Genovese pesto and melt-in-your-mouth Barolo braised lamb, we ate some of the best meals of our lives. The trip was a gastronomic delight. When we arrived at our rustic agriturismo (a workingRead More