My Opinion Monday: What To Worry About? The Food They Eat, Their Relationship With Food Or Your Own Motivations?
I don’t think I’d even glanced in the organic section of the produce department before my son was born. When he started eating solid foods I continued to buy fruits and vegetables from the regular produce section, only occasionally feeling a little twinge that perhaps I should be drifting over to the other side. And [...]
Read More...Strawberry And White Chocolate Pancakes For J *AND* For His Mom
For my son’s first week of school the plan was to make him some sweet treats that he would totally love. But somehow my own taste buds managed to get in the way. I dreamed up some pancakes stuffed full of his favourite things. Then I got practical and narrowed it down to strawberries and [...]
Read More...Corn and Chipotle Soup Might Help. Will You Make Me Some?
He jogs up the field, a zig, a zag, oops a tumble but then he’s up again and in position. The ball streaks toward his outstretched hands as the crowd goes nuts. Yes! He caught it! A proud parent jumps up and claps. Not me. I was not the proud parent at the Y’s Itty [...]
Read More...Use Booze: A Port Reduction to Adult-It-Up
My little J is not interested in sauces: He does not want any liquid to touch his food (except maple syrup, which he will use to drench anything, even broccoli!). He does not like dips (unless he’s dipping his fingers in ketchup and then putting them in his mouth for a suck). Any kind of [...]
Read More...How to Have Your Mushrooms and Eat Them Too
If you’ve ever run into us at the grocery story, I don’t blame you for thinking that my little J loves mushrooms. It would be a totally acceptable belief given the evidence: J sitting in the cart with a blue styro package of pre-washed sliced mushrooms on his lap as he happily chows down on [...]
Read More...Gremolata: Green stuff the kids might not like, but that’s o.k.
My son will eat anything as long as it doesn’t have flecks of green on it. Broccoli is fine but if it’s tossed into chicken soup such that little green globules attach themselves to the carrots, then neither the carrots, the broccoli, nor anything else in the soup gets eaten. This goes for all [...]
Read More...When Kid-Friendly Fare Needs Adult-Friendly Flare
Two little blond heads share the pillow next to her. She squints at the clock and is amazed to see 7, 3 and 0 illuminated. “Have they EVER slept this late before? Awesome!” Then the events of 2am come back to her and she wonders if it was worth the extra sleep. At least one [...]
Read More...What’s in the Box?
Only Girl in the World pounds out as we cruise down the suburban avenue. I’m excited and I know why. I wonder if little J is excited for the same reason. Unlikely. His giddiness is probably due to the passing of a stop sign, one of his favorite items to identify as we drive along. [...]
Read More...Foodies in the Family
My Gee Gee would pay us five cents for every potato bug in our pail. He’d hose mud off of a carrot and off of us at the same time. Shrieking, we’d jump from the spray secretly hoping to get caught by refreshing coldness. He’d hand us roughly cut rhubarb and send us to Baba [...]
Read More...Permission, Imperfection and Pizza = The Best Baby Gifts of All
My toddler is transitioning from crib to bed. Every time he wakes up, he realizes that he’s no longer confined. What does he do? He JUMPS! An excited thunder from bed to floor, from floor to bed and then back again. His floor also happens to be our bedroom ceiling. I am so tired.
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