Naptime Simple Tips: Fun & Essential Tips for Your Kitchen

My Day So Far: Driving up to Cooperstown for tomorrow’s appearance on “Bridge Street.” Crazy excited (and nervous!) Naptime Goals: Arrive in Cooperstown, bake brownies for tomorrow’s show, make sure I have all ingredients prepared. Tonight’s Meal: Mom’s cooking tonight, I am too nervous about tomorrow to cook! Parenting Lesson of the Day: Kiddo + […]

Becoming a parent requires developing a new sensibility about home cooking. Nothing throws a wrench into a family’s food life like the birth of a baby. Gone are the long hours of free time available for “project cooking” and making homemade puff pastry. Once a child arrives we, the parents, are forced – often under […]

My Day So Far: Manic Thursday! Visited Macy’s Santa-land (can’t help it, I promised my daughter!), picked up gift packaging materials, bakery for fresh baguettes. Naptime Goals: Finish Peppermint Bark and assemble gift bags, laundry, book sitter for date night. Tonight’s Meal: Paprika Pork Stew I made last night – it always tastes better the […]

With the northeastern farmers’ markets in full-swing I thought I would stop in today with a quick tidbit about vegetable roasting. At this time of year there are dozens and dozens of amazing vegetable recipes at our fingertips. Everywhere I look I am inspired by wonderful ideas for exciting new preparations. But, sometimes I just […]

I am five days into my Martha’s Vineyard beach vacation and am very relaxed. After less than a week, the stress of Manhattan life has completely faded from my memory. Or, maybe that is just the Dark & Stormy’s talking. Either way, I crave the simpler life in the summer. I am happy to trade […]

Spoiler Alert: Stay tuned tomorrow when I will be revealing the details of The Naptime Chef’s exciting extracurricular summer project, “The Naptime Chef Great Ice-Cream Festival of 2009.” I am such a devoted lover of brownies, that, I swear, if someone sewed a brownie on a flag I would hang it on my front porch […]