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Blogs: One Little Bite
- 1 Chocolate Mousse in a Teacup
- Chocolate mousse is on my 7-year-old's most-requested list, and last week I upped the ante by making it in a wedding-china teacup. (The cup's debut! And I was married in 1997!) I used the Nestle...
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- September 30, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 2 30 Days, 30 Lunches: Idea 30!!!
- Not sure how to pack an apple for (a) a kid with a wiggly tooth; (b) in a way that it doesn't brown; or (c) without wasting yet another plastic baggie? Here's a method that...
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- September 22, 2009
Blogs: The Agony and The Ecstasy
- 3 In the News: Do You Hate the Phrase "Date Night"?
- Say what you want about Amy Sohn's brand-new novel Prospect Park West (which characterizes the stroller-jammed Brooklyn neighborhood as Ground Zero for helicopter parenting), but you have to laugh at the author's quote in last...
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- September 16, 2009
Blogs: Nesting
- 4 Tomato-Can Vase
- I know now never to bother arranging fresh flowers before my friends Adam and Simone come to dinner. Simone, who is an artist and does the flowers for Del Posto and Babbo in her spare...
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- September 14, 2009
Blogs: Going Places
- 5 Block Island Breakfast
- We've been going to Block Island every summer for three years now, and on my most recent visit, I was lucky enough to run into an old friend who has had a summer house there...
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- September 14, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 6 30 Days, 30 Lunches: Idea 22
- Go buffet-style. Lori Slater, a mother of four and the founder of eco-apparel company In2green, puts an array of lunch fixings out on the counter and lets her kids pick and pack....
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- September 8, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 7 30 Days, 30 Lunches: Idea 18
- You know the rule about effective teachers--how they must begin the school year erring on the side of firm, because it's always easier to loosen up than to get stricter. (Kids sniff out weakness pretty...
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- September 3, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 8 Summer's Three Major Food Groups
- That would be corn, tomatoes, and a crisp rose. We added a piece of grilled swordfish to this beach-vacation meal, but really, I wouldn't have missed the protein. We also got lucky with the tomatoes....
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- September 2, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 9 A New Take on Salad "Spinning"
- For whatever reason, I find it psychologically challenging to pull out the clunky salad spinner to wash my greens. These produce bags from baggu have given me another option. You have to rinse the...
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- August 26, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 10 30 Days, 30 Lunches: Idea 9
- If the kids can handle a lunch box without a picture of [choose your albatross: Hello Kitty/Spongebob/Superman] on it, then you might want to check out the eco-friendly options at lunchsense. I love the...
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- August 21, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 11 Counselor Gifts
- As usual, it got to be the night before the last day of camp and I had no thoughts of what I could do for my daughters' counselors to show our appreciation. What I did...
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- August 19, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 12 Just Wondering...
- How much do you spend weekly on groceries? Has the recession been informing any purchasing decisions at the supermarket or the farmers' market? I was looking at my $200 grocery bill last week thinking, Wow,...
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- August 19, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 13 Vacation Cooking: Pasta with Clams
- When it comes to vacations with the kids, there are two kinds of parents--the kind that refuses to cook a single meal (it's vacation!) and the kind that embraces the extra time to explore the...
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- August 17, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 14 30 Days, 30 Lunches, Idea 17
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- August 14, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 15 30 Days, 30 Lunches: Idea 3
- SANDWICHES WITH CHARACTERNot entirely sure what is in between the bread here, but you can imagine how beside-the-point that was when I showed it to my Hello-Kitty-obsessed 5-year-old. I haven't tried it out in the...
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- August 12, 2009
Blogs: Nesting
- 16 Fun with Chalkboards
- I bought this chalkboard decal from wallcandyarts.com and stuck it up in my kitchen because I just thought it was so pretty, but now, a year later, I'm not sure anyone in my house can...
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- August 4, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 17 Cookie Fun: Easy as ABC
- These alphabet cookie cutters from Fox Run Craftsmen (a supersweet baking site I was delighted to explore) were as fun a rainy-day activity as you'd think they'd be. Though my 5-year-old got slightly impatient wtih the methodical...
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- August 4, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 18 To Be Filed Under: What the ...?
- Organic food is no healthier than regularly produced food, according to a study from London that I'm having a hard time getting my head around. From one of the report's authors-- "A small number of differences...
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- July 30, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 19 A Working-Mom Meal from Gwyneth
- We love our Goop, especially when Gwyneth is at the cutting board showing us how to cook. Click to watch her make roast chicken with fingerling potatoes and spring salad....
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- July 29, 2009
Blogs: One Little Bite
- 20 Indian Takeout (Right from the Pantry)
- Like everyone else these days, my culinary nod to the recession is to reach deeper into the pantries on those Thursday and Friday nights when there's very little that's fresh in the fridge and all...
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- July 29, 2009
