Get your kids in the kitchen with the perfect started cookbook for any budding chef, You Can Cook! And keep the kitchen mess under wraps with the Cuisinart covered multi-prep bowl that allows kids to miss, grate and slice in a mess-free covered prep bowl. Finally help show your kids how easy … [Read more...]
A Spoonful of Sugar
We collect Turn Of The Last Century children’s activity books, and some of the activities – taxidermy, anyone? – are a bit questionable now, while some of them – making candy and kites, “nutting parties” – are sadly rather lost. And that’s the way time goes, I guess, sweetness getting left behind … [Read more...]
We Have A Winner!
Congratulations, Holly Sisson! Cuisinart's gorgeous pressure cooker will soon be headed your way! That was fun - I'll have to do more giveaways. I am so, so frazzled this morning. Frazzled and exhausted. We went to a family reunion this weekend - my paternal grandmother's relatives - and it was … [Read more...]
Sunday Night Suppers AND NOW A GIVEAWAY
So last night, we were maybe 20 minutes from having supper ready and The Girl said, really forlornly "Are you going to make the brown and wild rice mix that I bought with my allowance?" And then I died right there of adorableness because I have a child who buys fancy rice with her … [Read more...]
My Vegetable Love Should Grow
I was grocery shopping this weekend - I lead a wild life - and the sales clerk, who was a woman in her early 30s, held up a leafy vegetable, needing me to identify it so she could punch in the code. It was kale, which she'd never heard of before. "What do you DO with it?" she asked me, … [Read more...]
One For My Baby
Wow, I'm tired this morning. So very tired. NEWBORN BABY TIRED. What's with that? I did get up at FOUR THIRTY in the morning (there's a 4:30 in the morning now? Apparently.) to make breakfast for the participants in the Relay For Life, but that was on Saturday and so it's probably not why I'm still … [Read more...]
Gluten Free
We all want our lives to be full of sweet things. Finding out that we need to follow a restricted diet is often a very crushing thing, the knowledge that so many of the pleasurable things in life are now lost to us. My Baby, as you probably know, has Celiac Disease and has to follow a strict … [Read more...]
Carrot Cake And My Aching Heart
Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote about the bread catching on fire inside of our elderly, avocado-coloured toaster? That was fun. Look what Cuisinart sent me! Now my house won't burn down. AWESOME. And WHAT am I toasting inside that fantastically retro-looking toaster? What epicurean … [Read more...]
Some Things Are More Helpful Then Others
This morning started dramatically when the bread caught on fire in the toaster. Happy Family Day to me! My husband shuffled wearily out of bed - he was sleeping in, the poor man - and turned off the smoke detector without even raising an eyebrow and went wearily back to bed, because I'm forever … [Read more...]
Our Final Kitchen Party of 2007!
With holiday entertaining at it's peak what could be better than another Cuisinart and urbanmoms.ca Kitchen Party and tips from our fave lovable Chef Ezra Title of Chez Vous Dining! It was our final Kitchen Party of 2007 and definitely one of the best. This diverse group of Toronto women were … [Read more...]