Making Baby-Safe Curries the Whole Family Will Love

As regular readers have probably already gleaned, Kat has an amazingly open mind (and mouth) when it comes to solid foods. I did try, sort of, to introduce the foods suggested by typical American baby books and pediatricians to Kat: rice cereal, bananas, and other bland fare, but she just really didn’t much care for […]

Masoor Dal With Baby Vegetables

When I was a child, I had a fascination with little things.
I collected miniature figurines of animals, and my favorite dolls were tiny–small enough to fit in my palm. On the shore of Lake Erie on visits to my aunt and uncle’s home, I would collect the shells of tiny bivalves and snails, delighting […]

Is Cooking For Your Family “Retrograde June Cleaver Nonsense?”

So, I was reading Slashfood today, and came upon this post highlighting an article in the New York Times written by a working mom who has made the choice to cook healthy dinners for her family almost every night.
In “Mom Puts Family on a Meal Plan”, author Leslie Kauffman relates how she, as a […]

Baigan Methi

I may not like summer heat, being as I tend to wilt when temperatures soar above eighty degrees, but I sure love summer.
Why?
Because of all the delicious locally grown produce, of course.
Especially heat lovers like eggplant, known in Hindi as baigan.
Look at those gorgeous little Asian eggplants up there: shiny dark violet […]

Weekend Kat and Kitten Blogging: Big Games

Morganna loves being a big sister. That is because Big Sister gets to do all the fun things, like teaching Kat how to play with kittens.
From the time Kat could sit up on her own, we have been able to entertain her for long periods of time by using the magical feather wands to […]