Joe, Grace, and I recreated No Time for Flash Cards’ heart-shaped pizzas on Valentine’s Day. I love using cookie cutters to make unexpected food shapes, and we all loved eating these pizzas!

My earliest Christmas memory involves chocolate and cherries and raisins and peanuts.
It was warm outside, so I think it was October or early November. My sisters, my mom, and I were helping my Grandma to make Christmas candy.
Or, more accurately, my mom was helping, and we were eating.
My recollection of the day is hazy, more suggestion than lucid memory. I don’t exactly recall any of the details, aside from sitting in my Grandpa’s chair, sampling the goods til I had a belly ache.
I find it strange that my mom and …

One of my Christmas season goals is to make special holiday treats with Gracie at least twice.
Every year, we make some holiday treats and package them up to distribute to our neighbors. It’s a little token of good will, and everyone loves some extra Christmas cookies.
I’m a little embarrassed to say this, but the most raved about ookie we’ve shared the last couple of years was actually a pre-made dough from the dairy case of the grocery store.
The horrors! The horrors!
I always get a little anxious when someone asks for …

I make 3 pies for Thanksgiving dinner. It doesn’t matter how many guests are coming, nor who they are.
Thanksgiving isn’t Thanksgiving without a slice of cherry pie. And a slice of pumpkin pie. And a slice of pecan pie.
It just isn’t.
And I make all 3 of them myself, usually on Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Are you impressed?
Everyone always raves about all that work I did to make three pies, but all three are so easy that it’s embarrassing.
This cherry pie is by far the easiest of the three, and it’s a great …

Grace and I have had the flu for the last week. We haven’t done any fun cooking, nor any fun eating.
Grace hasn’t done much eating at all, in fact.
That makes it hard to write about Grace’s kitchen exploits, you know?
Earlier in the week, we received a preview copy of a book I wish I’d had when Grace was tiny. It’s called eebee’s Mix & Mash: Adventures in the Kitchen for Baby & You. It’s a cookbook that contains six recipes, but it’s also a board book. It has pictures of …