Pumpkin season is in full swing and it seems like most everybody has a case of “pumpkin spice” fever. I’d like to offer an alternative recipe using pumpkin that’s very easy to cook. Roasted pumpkin seeds are a delicious, crunchy, salty snack that is really good for you too. Plus, the whole family can help prepare them. Grown-ups can cut off the top of the pumpkin and handle everything that involves the oven. The little chefs can help in so many ways. They can pull or scoop out the pumpkin seeds, clean off the seeds, add in pinches of salt
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Today we are sharing our latest Toddler Recipe written just for kids. The other day I was at the farmers market and saw tons of corn and tomatoes and thought, it’s time to make this salad! Eliana made herself a batch of this salad today. I helped by cutting the kernels off the corn cob and mincing the herbs but she did the rest! This recipe is a favorite among kids and grown ups. Enjoy it as stated in the recipe as an accompaniment to a meal, bulk it up with some chickpeas for a main course or turn it into a
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With summer in full swing and hot days upon us, it seems like a great time to share our latest Toddler Recipe. Let’s Make Fruity Yogurt is a yummy, refreshing recipe to have for breakfast, lunch or a snack on a hot day. I love that this recipe can be customized with any fresh or frozen and thawed fruit your little chef wants. I made this the other day in a cooking class with a bunch of cute little campers and we used fresh strawberries. The next day, Eliana and I made a batch for her to bring for lunch at her
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Here is our latest Toddler Recipe: Let’s Make Mini Pizzas! I’m really excited to share this new recipe with you because pizza is a quick, easy and healthy meal your teeny tiny chef can help make for himself–and what little kid (or big kid) out there doesn’t love pizza, right? Wait, did I just say that pizza is healthy? I sure did! Typically, pizza has a reputation of being an unhealthy food but that doesn’t have to be the case. To make a healthier pizza, use a whole grain English muffin to increase the amount of fiber and protein than you find in a typical English muffin. If
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In the teeny tiny foodie home, we love to eat our greens! Over these last four years, we have created quite a collection of recipes for these much loved “green foods”. Our newest recipe to fall into this collection, Let’s Make Green Hummus, is also one of our Toddler Recipes. These are illustrated recipes created for kids to follow with some support from a grown up. Our Toddler Recipes are free to print (just use the “Print This Post” button at the top right corner) so go ahead and start a collection for your own teeny tiny sous chef(s) to use. One tip: put the
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Let’s Make Purple Overnight Oats is our latest illustrated recipe created just for young chefs! Our collection of Toddler Recipes is designed to allow your little sous chef to feel empowered and independent in the kitchen. Eliana loves to eat overnight oats and the fact that she can prepare them almost entirely by herself makes her ecstatic. As a very independent little lady, she’s really into things she can do on her own or “All. By. My. Self” as she says. I hope your little sous chef will love to make, and eat, this dish too. Overnight oats have become one of our
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Eliana and I will be teaching a cooking class together starting in January with Green Ivy Enrichment. The 12-week course will be held at Battery Park Montessori School and we want your little chef to join us! Enroll your 2½-5 year old in our teeny tiny chefs classes and over the course of the sessions your child will learn to prepare a variety of fruit and vegetable-filled recipes he or she can re-create at home with some support. Along with cooking together, my teeny tiny sous chef and I will help your little chefs work on knife skills and learn
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Let’s Make Chocolate Milk! is our newest illustrated Toddler Recipe for kids to use with minimal support from a grown up. I love that this recipe is totally customizable to the tastes and dietary preferences or restrictions of your family. We use unsweetened cocoa powder so we can control the amount of sugar in this recipe but you can adjust the amounts of cocoa and syrup to your liking when making this recipe with your own teeny tiny foodie. Don’t forget that you can use the “Print this Post” button in the top right corner to print this free recipe. Add it
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Eliana officially went back to school last week and entered the world of Pre-Kindergarten. Real school! What??!! I swear she was just this teeny tiny person only yesterday! So, then how did THIS happen? I know, I know. This is what all parents say. Anyway, last year when Eliana was in preschool she went for two full-days per week and was home with me for the other three. So, unless we had an early activity, we could be lazy and take a little longer to get out the door if we so chose. My husband had to get up and
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We recently moved from the busy streets of Brooklyn to suburbia and we spend a lot more time in the car than we used to. When I learned that OXO Tot was giving out free travel products in order for bloggers to Choose Your Own Adventure, I jumped at the chance to try them out! I love a box of OXO Tot goodies! Eliana is not new to the concept of eating on the go. She’s enjoyed countless snacks and lunches over the years while we’ve been out and about and on the go. She’s dined in her stroller, on
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As a busy mom, it’s important to me to have a few recipes up my sleeve that make it quick and easy to feed myself and my family a breakfast or snack that is packed with healthy goodness. Smoothies are a perfect example—they are delicious, filled with fruit and veggies and can be on the table in minutes. For this Blueberry Avocado Smoothie Bowl, I put together ingredients that contain cancer-fighting antioxidants and healthy fats that promote heart health and reduce blood pressure. To Eliana, this is a delicious breakfast that feels like she is eating ice cream. To me, it’s a
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Let’s Wash Our Hands is our newest Toddler Recipe created just for kids to follow with minimal support of a grown up. I know what you’re thinking: washing your hands isn’t a “recipe”, so what’s up? We created this recipe because clean hands are a chef’s most important tool. When our teeny tiny sous chefs are helping us in the kitchen, it’s especially essential that they have extra clean hands. Just think for a moment about all the things those teeny tiny hands touch in the span of a few minutes. Kind of gross, right? Yeah, those little hands need a good scrubbing! So go ahead and
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