Tag Archives: cooking with kids

The Five-Year-Old cooks breakfast

Posted on March 2, 2013 by

Last weekend, Daddyo decided to teach The Five-Year-Old how to cook scrambled eggs. And that meant teaching her to crack an egg. To be fair, The Five-Year-Old’s grandmother had taught her how to crack an egg when she was only … Continue reading →

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“How did they make old-timey ketchup?” A Caterpickles Investigative Report, Part Two: The Cooking

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

If you’re just joining us, recently The Five-Year-Old asked me how Americans used to make ketchup in those bleak days before Henry Heinz brought his ketchup to market in 1876. Yesterday we found and translated an old-timey recipe. Today we’re … Continue reading →

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“How did they make old-timey ketchup?”: A Caterpickles Investigative Report

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

One of the reasons I love eating at local diners is that they tend to serve ketchup in glass bottles. The Five-Year-Old, though, was a bit surprised to learn that squeeze-and-squirt hasn’t always been fundamental to the ketchup experience. The … Continue reading →

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“How do they make cooking oil?”

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

Fun in the kitchen week continues with a look at another ingredient in homemade play-doh: Cooking oil. There are lots and lots of kinds of oils in the kitchen, each with their own fascinating manufacturing account, I’m sure, but for … Continue reading →

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“What is cream of tartar?”

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Said the Four-Year-Old, on hearing that we needed cream of tartar to make snickerdoodles last week. Mommyo duly made a note to Ask the iPhone sometime when she wasn’t up to her elbows in creamed butter and sugar. Days pass, … Continue reading →

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Breakfast at Caterpickles II

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Rainy winter mornings when The Four-Year-Old wakes up early and there are guests in the house simply scream for complicated breakfasts. This is especially fun when The Four-Year-Old is in a measuring and stirring sort of mood. On this particular … Continue reading →

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