Category: food + recipes

Feeding Traditions: Persephone Brown

Feeding Traditions: Persephone Brown

[ 0 ] 5.13.2013 |

Today we meet Persephone Brown. Perspehone is health coach and year-round resident of Block Island. She has a 3 year-old son and is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Columbia Teachers College of NYC.

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Join RI Food Bank at the documentary screening, “A Place at the Table” on May 16, 2013

Join RI Food Bank at the documentary screening, “A Place at the Table” on May 16, 2013

[ 0 ] 5.8.2013 |

The Rhode Island Community Food Bank will host the state’s first public screening of the nationally acclaimed documentary on hunger, “A Place at the Table,” on Thursday, May 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the Columbus Theater, 270 Broadway in Providence.

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Home Work: Katrin Schnippering

Home Work: Katrin Schnippering

[ 5 ] 5.6.2013 |

To enter a raffle for a box of Katrin’s Father’s Day Cookies, leave a comment about the sweetest dad you know in the comments below. Deadline for entries: May 31st. What inspired you to start Eye Cookies? Katrin: I was always baking and loved to bring baked goods to friends. Then friends began asking me [...]

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Edible Rhody KIDS: Honeybees (Spring 2013)

Edible Rhody KIDS: Honeybees (Spring 2013)

[ 0 ] 4.7.2013 |

Welcome Spring! “Honeybees”, shares facts about our buzzing friends and tips on how to help them.

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Celebrate Spring with Pea Tendrils

Celebrate Spring with Pea Tendrils

[ 0 ] 4.2.2013 |

One of the most delightful greens of the season will be making its debut soon—the young tendrils of the sweet pea plant. They are delicate and full of flavor, perfect for making a crunchy and fun-to-eat salad for lunch or dinner.

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Feeding Traditions: Katy Killilea

Feeding Traditions: Katy Killilea

[ 3 ] 3.8.2013 |

Today we meet Katy Killilea. She loves running, cooking, sudden trips to new places, loud corduroy pants, and being taken to the Beehive in Bristol.

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Family Dinner: The Lost Art

Family Dinner: The Lost Art

[ 3 ] 3.7.2013 |

In today’s world families have become so busy, with both parents working, and children scheduled for countless school and athletic events that dinner time has all but disappeared.

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10 Ways to Celebrate Dr. Seuss with Food, Crafts, Books, and Silliness!

10 Ways to Celebrate Dr. Seuss with Food, Crafts, Books, and Silliness!

[ 0 ] 3.1.2013 |

Dr. Seuss’ whimsical rhymes and clever stories hold the same magic for my children as they did for me when I was a kid.

March 2nd also marks the day (in 2007) when I first shared Kidoinfo online with a circle of friends. Thanks for being part of the Kido family!

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Pancake Robots

Pancake Robots

[ 0 ] 2.27.2013 |

Your kids will call you a breakfast hero the next time you tell them you’re serving up pancakes from a robot factory. All you need is a condiment bottle, pancake mix and a steady hand.

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Baking Banana Bread with Kids

Baking Banana Bread with Kids

[ 1 ] 2.12.2013 |

February seems to me a perfect month to spend with a set of mixing bowls, baking pans, and a nice hot oven. Between the sweetness of Valentine’s Day treats and big, blizzard snowstorms, it is truly the heart of winter in New England. And nothing feels cozier than turning up the oven to warm the kitchen and filling the house with the smell of baking bread.

I became something of a Banana Bread aficionado a few winters ago when I began systematically trying every delicious-looking recipe I found in cookbooks and my favorite food blogs. I have tried adding pecans, crystallized ginger, chocolate chips, walnuts, and sometimes the recipes have even called for lemon juice!

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