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Health & Nutrition

Cooking Homemade Pasta with the Kids

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Easy pasta recipe just for small hands.

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For Parents

How to Have Fun in the Kitchen with Your Kids

3 Tips on Cooking with Your Kids

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For Parents

Classic Family Dinner Recipes by Campanile's Mark Peel

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Campanile’s Mark Peel shares recipes from his Monday Family Dinner nights at LA’s classic restaurant.

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For Parents

Simple Mom: How to Save Time and Money Cooking for the Family

Cooking in advance has the serious advantage of saving time and money. You’ll waste less food (especially the perishables), and you’ll save money by doubling up your efforts on the spoils brought home from the store. It’s also healthier, because you won’t need to buy convenience foods that are chock full of MSG, preservatives, sodium, [...]

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Quick Picks

Immaculate Baking Cookie Dough – All Natural and Organic

This weekend, our kitchen was filled with the smells of fresh-baked cookie aromas after discovering cookie dough from Immaculate Baking Co.  This is no ordinary cookie dough – unlike Pillsbury or Nestle’s, Immaculate’s cookie dough is made from all natural…

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Quick Picks

Recipe Cards – Not Modern, But Very Nostalgic

I found these scanned recipe cards on Flickr, and was thinking that we might all have some collection of hand-me-down recipes books and cards in our kitchen libraries that remind us of our childhood cooking with mom….

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Baby Gear

All-in-One Beaba Babycook Here, But Not BPA-Safe?

Over the weekend, friends of ours with a six-month old daughter excitedly told us that the Beaba Babycook was now available from France at Williams Sonoma.  We’ve known about Beaba since last year, but haven’t written about it because…

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Children's Books

How Do You Make Dinosaur Soup? Ask a kid.

We all know that our kids say the funniest things, and if you asked them how to make their favorite dishes, you’d get all sorts of answers.  Probably even rolling on the floor funny. For the upcoming book, Dinosaur Soup(And…

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