The Naptime Chef Cooking Show

What’s Going on Today: Spending a week in Cooperstown, trip to the farmer’s market, morning at the lake. Naptime Goals: Shuck corn for boiling, spend time in the garden reading. Tonight’s Menu: Grilled corn, grilled sausage, tomatoes with cucumbers. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Ironically, children seem to sleep better when they’re on vacation. Growing […]

What’s Going on Today: Trip to The Garbage Museum (no joke, watch the video). Naptime Goals: Prepare Baked Tomatoes with Parmesan & Herbs, Cookie Crumble Parfaits. Tonight’s Menu: Tagliatelle, Baked Tomatoes, Cookie Crumble Parfaits, Wine (for the parents) Parenting Lesson of the Day: Never underestimate the appeal of garbage! It’s hard to believe that we […]

What’s Going on Today: Last day in Cooperstown, bike ride with daughter, blueberry picking with Dad! Naptime Goals: Can 2 quarts of Blueberry Pie filling with my Dad. Tonight’s Menu: Mom’s cooking (again!), I am in charge of the corn. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Never let them wear treasured clothes when blueberry picking. Last […]

What’s Going on Today: Big pancake breakfast, morning trip to the beach (hence the wet hair in the video), sunday chores. Naptime Goals: Make Zucchini Bites with the zucchini I recently picked up at the farmer’s market this week, finish up some Babble columns. Tonight’s Menu: Grilled Soyaki Chicken Thighs, Zucchini bites, cous-cous, Chocolate Chip […]

What’s Going on Today: Hanging out in Cooperstown for the Fourth. Lots of fun in the sun, planning for an afternoon boat trip. Naptime Goals: Lesson from Mom on how to make her awesome Gazpacho. Tonight’s Menu: Gazpacho, Turkey Burgers, salad, ice-cream. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Don’t tease toddlers about fish eating their toes, […]

What’s Going on Today: Daughter’s first day of camp! July Fourth decoration preparation underway… Naptime Goals: Prepare Burgers for tonight’s grilling lesson. Tonight’s Menu: Burgers with Chive Parsley Butter, Caesar Salad, Roasted Red Potatoes with Herbed Salt. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Rain helps us start over with a clean slate. I love burgers in […]

What’s Going on Today: 6am wake-up call (wha?!) from daughter, out and about eeeaaaarly. Errands around town, trip to playground, picnic lunch. Naptime Goals: Make Vegetable Quiche for dinner tonight, catch up on things around the house and maybe take a quick nap before daughter wakes up! Tonight’s Menu: Slice of vegetable quiche, white wine, […]

What’s Going on Today: Picking up knives from new knife sharpener (!), library trip, fun in the sun, Mom’s night out! Naptime Goals: Make Strawberry Mint Ice-Cream, organize schedule for babysitter, clean up email inbox. Tonight’s Menu: Mom’s night out! (Dad and daughter eating leftovers) Parenting Lesson of the Day: Introduce kids to their local […]

What’s Going On Today: Rainy day in CT, sing-along at the beach before cloudburst, errands in the afternoon. Naptime Goals: Strawberry-Raspberry Cobbler, roast vegetables, marinate chicken. Tonight’s Menu: Chicken with Veggies, Cobbler (our second one this week!) with Strawberries from the farmer’s market. Parenting Lesson of the Day: When conversing with toddlers always have a […]

What’s Going on Today: Returning from Martha’s Vineyard with a pile of laundry and an overtired kid. Naptime Goals: Sort through mail, laundry and fridge. Make grocery list. Tonight’s Menu: Meatballs for Choir Boys from the freezer, Salad, Wine. Parenting Lesson of the Day: There is nothing like a visit to the grandparents to tire […]

What’s Going on Today: Packing for Memorial Day, pick up dry cleaning and fresh bottles of sunscreen. Plan for walk to the beach after naps. Naptime Goals: Prepare Cous-Cous Salad with Blue Cheese and Craisins, wrap up blog posts, zip up suitcases! Tonight’s Menu: Hebrew National Hot Dogs with Toasted Buns, Cous-Cous salad, Green Salad, […]

What’s Going on Today: After all the packing… we are finally unpacking. Naptime Goals: Unpack the kitchen (my top priority, obviously!) Tonight’s Menu: Take-out from the mexican place up the street we can’t wait to try. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Sometime change is good, even for kids. So, we’ve moved. It was a stressful, […]

What’s Going on Today: Finalizing things with the movers, taking advantage of last few days in New York! Naptime Goals: Make Lemon Coconut Squares for picnic in Central Park tomorrow. Tonight’s Menu: Leftover Roast Chicken, Green Beans with Walnuts, Lemon Coconut Squares for dessert (we don’t have to take the whole batch to our picnic, […]

What Going on Today: Up waaaaayy too early this morning! Have to start packing boxes. We officially move in 2 weeks. Sad. Naptime Goals: Make Polenta steaks using my new favorite recipe. Work on address changes, squeeze in a little R&R for me, too. Tonight’s Menu: Chive Polenta Steaks, green salad. Parenting Lesson of the […]

What’s Going on Today: Up earlier, sun is brighter, playground more active – everything is better in springtime. Off to the farmer’s market to pick up fresh veggies and all of my favorites from Ronnybrook Farm. Naptime Goals: Make big batch of Pancake Mix for pancake breakfast on Saturday. Tonight’s Menu: Leftover Browned Butter Asparagus […]