Check out this week’s Food News, Things I Crave, Green Your Eats, Tips, Tools & Techniques, and Weekly Roundtable (a roundup of the most recent ChowMama posts). Plus, for a little while, I’ll follow the Weekly Roundtable with a quick update on my non-resolutions, you know, to keep me honest.
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Check out this week’s Food News, Things I Crave, Green Your Eats, Tips, Tools & Techniques, and Weekly Roundtable (a roundup of the most recent ChowMama posts). Plus, for a little while, I’ll follow the Weekly Roundtable with a quick update on my non-resolutions. Not that you should care (but maybe you do? I love me support from fellow ChowMamas and ChowPapas!), but it’s a way of keeping me honest.
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I love avocado. I’m envious of folks who live in places like Southern California where the fruit is local and abundant. Instead, I settle for avocados shipped thousands of miles that could stunt double for rocks. (Thankfully, they soften after some time on my counter.) Not perfect, but still pretty good. And the best part, avocados are super healthy. A nutritional powerhouse, they are especially good for your heart thanks to oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat that may help to lower cholesterol.
Avocado is also a perfect family food. It can be fed to children as young as 6 months. In fact, it was the first solid food my oldest ChowBaby tried! It’s great on its own and mixes well with other early foods like banana, cereal, tofu, peach, and pears. And—yes, there’s more!—you can freeze avocado, mashed or in slices. Just expect a little browning (it doesn’t impact flavor).
Here are 6 easy, delicious ways to enjoy avocado.
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I recently posted a call to organize our kitchens together, and going through our kitchen gadgetry seems the perfect place to start. After all, the family cook’s kitchen may churn out food just as good as any other cook, but we work differently. With little time. With tots nipping at our heels. With the need to whip up one meal that can satisfy the ChowMama and ChowPapa while still accommodating ChowBabies at different eating stages.
With that in mind, the criteria I use to measure my kitchen gadgets are:
Two tools that best meet these criteria are my kitchen shears and microplane.
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The other weekend when I was at my parents’ house, my mother asked me to whip up some cupcakes. But where was the baking powder? And the vanilla bean? And the…? She told me everything I needed was already in the mix. The mix? Ugh.
As far as I’m concerned, cake mixes always taste nasty. Sorry. It’s true. There’s something cloying about every one I’ve ever tried. And I’ve always been convinced that it takes nearly the same amount of time to make a cake from scratch as it does to make a prepared mix. But as my mom reminded me, some people just think a mix is easier.
Since Stacie and I always say that cooking for your family is about cooking with whatever is available, I decided to roll with it and make a few adjustments to the yellow cake mix in my mother’s cupboard. And guess what? These cupcakes (almost) tasted like they were made from scratch!
Photo: Veer
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