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The Furoshiki, a Japanese wrapping cloth
Have you heard of furoshikis? They are square fabric cloths used in Japan to wrap everything from lunch, presents, picnics, pillows, groceries, you name it! Made from gorgeous printed cotton fabric, furoshikis are as beautiful as everything coming from Japan. Besides the primary use of a wrap, furoshikis are also great to be used as scarfs, ...
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Tuesday Tips: (trying to) raise good and healthy eaters
How come some children are good, healthy eaters, and some are super picky and have a difficult relationship with food? Is it a matter of nature, or of nurture? I was recently chatting with my girls' ballet teacher, a lovely lady of sixty-something, and she was telling me about her baby granddaughter, who basically refused to eat ...
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Italian-Inspired Tuna & Bean Salad
The other day we were in a little grocery store here in New Zealand, looking for some quick supplies to make lunch in our campervan. Michael scanned their modest cheese section hoping to find something beyond the standard Cheddar and Edam options, to add a bit of interest to our sandwiches. He found Gruyere, an ...
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Tuesday Tips: Simple Food Tricks
This week we thought we would offer some fun tips for getting kids to eat... because every once in a while it's good to have a trick up your sleeve to outsmart the kids at mealtime. Esther says... Sprinkle a little bit of cinnamon on apple slices. My kids eat apples, but they LOVE them with ...
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Bitsy's Brainfood
Bitsy's Brainfood is a new, organic children's food brand which we have recently discovered and which has signed on to sponsor our upcoming ShopUp event in NYC. I was really excited to discover this company, and in the weeks since partnering with them the kids and I have become big Bitsy's Brainfood fans! They recently sent over ...
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Tomato Paste -- spread it onto bread and call it dinner!
This recipe actually comes from one of the most remote parts of the world! My lovely friend Nadine is from St Helena, an island in the middle of the Atlantic that hardly anyone has ever heard about. We stayed with her over the holidays (not in St Helena as it takes days to get there, ...
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Classic French Fruit Tarte
This year is a year of plums in the French countryside – the trees are falling over with them!! I tried to vary a little bit from my usual solution to this 'problem', which is to bake a clafoutis every day. This year, I tried one of the most traditional French desserts: a fruit tarte. The great ...
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Alfajores!
It's difficult to think of a time when we didn't know what an 'alfajor' was... but the truth is that we've only just discovered these delicious treats since arriving to Uruguay 6 weeks ago. They are now our most favourite cookies ever! Alfajores are a very common Latin American cookie, most common in Argentina and Uruguay (with ...
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Recipe: Healthy Chocolate Without Sugar!
Recently I found a passion in creating healthy versions of the not-so-healthy treats. For instance, our whole family loves dark chocolate, even Talan who is not even 1.5 years old loves 85% cocoa chocolate because frankly he never even tried any other kind but I wanted to make an even healthier version of it by ...
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Lactation Biscuits -- for increasing your milk supply
Wilkie weighed 3.8 kilos at birth (a big, tall baby!), and after the initial weight loss that most newborns experience, it took him nearly three weeks to put back on his birth weight. The midwives weren't overly concerned, especially knowing I had successfully breastfed four other babies, but they did start suggesting natural ways to ...
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A cookbook addiction
I would say on a scale of 1 to 10, I am somewhere around a 7 regarding my addiction to cookbooks. Every time I am in a bookshop, an unknown force pulls me over to the cookbook section, where I can spend hours looking at pictures, deliberating over recipes and projecting myself into my kitchen ...
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Apple Streusel Kuchen
A lot of things surprised my parents when they first moved to Germany as a young couple (no music playing between 12-3pm everyday, no greeting random strangers on the streets), but there was one custom they adopted immediately: the Sunday afternoon cake. The Sunday afternoon cake was, and hopefully still is, one of the best ...
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Comments (5)
So sweet! You both look so great in this!
yummmmmmmm!
This looks so decadent! I usually just put berries on the ice cream with a little sugar but will have to try this using the butter too! Please keep doing these cute videos – so fun!
Love your videos and your recipe looks delicious! May I ask where you got your cute wooden spoon with the heart in the centre? xx
I got it at Hema! http://bit.ly/1NP2I2G x