Mom's Kitchen Handbook

An abundance of late-season citrus landed in this simple salad of grapefruit, oranges, and cucumbers. The dressing:  1/2 teaspoon coarse mustard, 1 teaspoon honey, 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon olive oil, pinch salt. Spent Saturday at a track meet where we opted for a BYO lunch instead of the concession stand: bean salad, [...]

Call me gender-biased, but avocados are one of those foods that I lump into a discreet category of good eats I consider “girl food.” I say this based on the four females under my roof who have a love for avocados unmatched by the lone male. Sure Mr. Mom’s Kitchen can take down a bowl [...]

Children are bombarded every day with foods that aren’t particularly good for them:  Colorful bags of processed snacks, shiny juice drink pouches, and an endless buffet of sweets of every stripe. Junk food is everywhere, from the soccer field to the school party, the Office Max to the check out aisle at Old Navy . For those [...]

Looking back over the past seven days, it’s clear the theme for the week was parties. Here’s what it all looked like, captured with my iphone: Mr. Mom’s Kitchen and I teamed up with my brother and sister-in-law to co-host an auction dinner for the kids’ school. The meal started with these cute-as-can-be carrots and [...]

I named this frozen confection Raspberry Dream because once you whirl together the raspberries, simple syrup, and egg whites, what results is nothing short of dreamy. Cold, tangy, and luscious, you’ll want to lick it right out of the bowl of your Cuisinart. The fact that it will only take you about five minutes of [...]

I haven’t been as excited by a book as I am about Fearless Feeding since the fifth grade when I got my hands on Judy Blume’s tween classic Are you there God, it’s me, Margaret. The only downside of the fact that I’m giving away a copy is that I’ll no longer have one for myself, which [...]

My family hasn’t eaten a hot meal in two years. It’s true. Take these pork chops. As they sizzled on the grill, I cooked up a compote of rhubarb, ginger, garlic, and onions, that turned out so tangy and rosy-hued, it was too good to keep to myself, which set in motion the “mad scramble”: [...]

It’s clear that Spring is here and we have the produce to prove it. Here’s what My Week in Food looked like, snapped with my iphone. Started the week out with a visit to the farmer’s market down the street and scored three baskets of these beautiful berries, as fragrant and sweet as they are [...]

Being a mom is amazing: Fulfilling and thrilling and sweet and tender. The best thing I’ve ever done. By Far. But being a mom can also be brutal: Exhausting and exasperating and heartbreaking and painful. The hardest thing I’ve ever done. By Far. So I’m thinking …just one day of Mother’s Day? It’s not enough. [...]

There was a little more eating out this past week than usual, although still plenty of eating in. Here’s what My Week in Food was about, all captured on my iphone. Love the ruby hue of rhubarb. These fat stalks were the first I’d seen this Spring. I cooked them into a savory compote, which [...]