If you’ve been reading teeny tiny foodie, you may have figured out that I’m a mama on a mission. My mission is to keep my 3-year-old daughter from becoming a “picky eater.” So often I hear parents talk about how their kids used to eat “everything” and once they became toddlers they stopped eating all but around 5 foods. So, I’ll let you in on a secret: Over my dead body will that happen to my daughter. Want to learn more and get the recipes for 5 dishes Eliana and I love to make together? Head over to Eating Rules
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The folks at Bread and Butter Publishing have done it again! You may remember the review I wrote last year of their first book, End of the Rainbow Fruit Salad. Today I’m excited to tell you about their newest book Garden Safari Vegetable Soup. Let me tell you, this book is another great toddler-friendly recipe book. During this cooking adventure, the Kitchen Club Kids go on a safari through a garden to gather vegetables. They take the vegetables home and lead the readers through a delicious recipe for vegetable soup. Eliana reads Garden Safari Vegetable Soup over and over. The pictures
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This is one of those crazy dishes that came together by accident and can only be attributed to serendipity. Here’s the story: One afternoon as lunch time was drawing closer, Eliana and I were both hungry and there was nothing in the house that was already prepared for us to eat. As I scoured the fridge surveying the odds and ends located inside of it, I remembered something I had heard from a fellow Instagram user. When I posted a photo for Coconut French Toast over the summer, “Bee” left a great tip when she commented that she makes a
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This week’s Monday Meal continues my current theme of Sweet September in which I’m sharing recipes that are “smart about sugar”. Today I’m sharing 3 recipes for delicious, healthy milkshakes that have no added sugar and taste great. By using nutritious ingredients like milk, coconut oil and frozen fruit you get a sweet treat that’s full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, nutrients, and healthy fats. Before I share the recipes, here are a couple of reasons I love making milkshakes: 1. You can customize these recipes to your preferences by using ingredients that you and your family like. For example, you
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If you’ve read some of the most recent Monday Meal recipes I’ve shared, you might have noticed I’ve been on a bit of a “sugar binge” lately. No, I don’t mean I’ve been eating tons and tons of candies and sweets. I’ve been binging on learning about sugar. As a result, it’s made me want to make a variety of sweet things that are “smart about sugar” and contain either no added sugar or around 1 teaspoon of sugar per serving. What? Something can be sweet without adding sugar? It sure can! Using fruit and fruit purées is one way
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I like to have fun in the kitchen. But I especially like to play around with recipes for muffins by adding various fruits, vegetables, herbs, seeds and whole grains to the mix. Literally. It’s a fun culinary challenge to come up with different, sometimes wacky and unexpected, flavor combinations. For this recipe, though, I wanted to create something simpler, using the bare minimum of ingredients necessary to create a muffin. These Straight Up Strawberry Muffins are delicious, easy to make alone or with the help of your teeny tiny sous chef and…they have less than 1 teaspoon of sugar per
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When I shared my recipe for Yellow Squash & Tarragon Purée last week, I alluded to the fact that I’d be using it for a recipe for “grown ups”, too. Before I share that recipe below, I want to let you in on a little bit of my thinking behind this recipe… When I began making homemade purées and other first foods for Eliana when she was 6-7 months old, I typically bought extra amounts of the same fruits and vegetables I wanted to cook for my husband and me to use to make purées for Eliana. For example, knowing
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Have you heard about the breakfast phenomenon that is “Overnight Oats?” Think oatmeal without the heat and without the porridge-like texture. It is a brilliant breakfast invention that cooks itself overnight with less than 10 minutes of hands-on time! It’s so freakin’ easy that I’m totally embarrassed to say that it took me a few tries to work out some kinks and get it “right.” But, as a result of my kitchen fails, I now have a recipe, and some tips, to share with you! And if you have a teeny tiny sous chef at home, he or she can
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It isn’t uncommon for me to have an idea of what I want to make for lunch or dinner but by the time actual preparation of the meal rolls around, I’m on to something a little different. That exact thing happened the other day. In the morning, I had been planning to make quesadillas for lunch for Eliana and myself. But by the afternoon, it was so hot outside that even the idea of turning on the burner to melt the cheese made me sweat even more. Gross! So, I scanned the pantry and the fridge with the idea of
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Last week, Eliana and I were given a private tour of the Gotham Greens rooftop greenhouse located atop Whole Foods Market in Brooklyn. It was amazing!!! Stay tuned because I’m going to tell you all about that unique experience in a forthcoming post. But for now, I’m going to share a yummy new recipe Eliana and I made using their Baby Kale Medley– just one of the delicious products we took home with us to play with in the kitchen. This week’s Monday Meal, Shaved Apple & Baby Kale Salad, uses locatelli cheese (or “Kelly Cheese” as Eliana calls it)
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Kale can be a pretty scary looking vegetable to foodies young and old. And if you taste it raw, your fears may well be confirmed by the slightly bitter taste of the rough and tough leaves. Want to know how to make kale taste tender and a little bit sweet? It’s so easy and hands-on (literally) that even your own teeny tiny sous chef can do it! You simply massage the kale. By massaging kale, you “cook” it and make it tastier and easier to digest, too. So, go ahead and give it a good rub down! How To Massage
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Since Eliana will be three years old in about two weeks (gasp!), I figure it’s time to give her more responsibility in the kitchen. The downside of this will be the extra mess that she leaves in her wake and the time and a half I should add to how long it takes to prepare any given recipe. If you’ve been reading teeny tiny foodie over the last two years (specifically posts like Bibs are Made to Get Dirty, Helicopter Mommy and Mess Happens…), you know that I have a hard time with “messy”. But, as I said, my teeny
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