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What's Cooking offers healthy cooking classes and gifts to children. On our blog, we discuss family mealtimes and tips on cooking with children. We also discuss What's Cooking Weekly, our healthy menu planning service for families.

Recent Posts Tagged With 'cooking'

• Cooking Up Ideas for a Sustainable Future

  Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 21:27 in community development, community service, cooking, Eco-friendly, educator study tour, heifer international, helping others, Honduras, hunger prevention, musings of a cooking teacher..., sustainability, women's cooperative

  It has been just over a year since I went to Honduras on the Educator’s Study Tour with Heifer International, and I am feeling quite nostalgic.  As an ode to our adventure and my life-changing ...

• Kids, Food and Community Service - Call for Ideas!

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 14:12 in add new tag, community service, cooking, cooking with kids, food, homeless, hungry, kids, make a difference, recipe for action, sustainable farming

  For the past two months, I have been working on a book proposal that combines my passion for getting kids into the kitchen and into their communities to make a difference. Here are some examples of ac...

• We’re On - the What’s Cooking Bake Sale!

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 14:43 in bake sale, childhood hunger, community service, cooking, cooking with kids, great american bake sale, kids, music in the park, san rafael, share our strength, what's cooking

  I was nearly brought to tears by the enthusiasm of our friends, family and classmates when I told them about the Great American Bake Sale. What began as an attempt at getting a few families to help h...

• Ethnic Foods for Kids - How?

  Posted on Thursday March 6th, 2008 at 23:26 in cooking, cooking for kids, cooking with kids, crock pot, ethnic foods for kids, family meals, healthy meals, indian food, musings of a cooking teacher..., picky eaters, recipe, recipes

  Our our family’s recent trip to Panama and Costa Rica, my children loved tasting tropical fruits that they hadn’t seen before. It got me thinking about how eager kids can be to taste food...

• Exciting New Discovery - Online food events and challenges!

  Posted on Sunday January 13th, 2008 at 23:27 in contest, cooking, is my blog burning, lentil soup, musings of a cooking teacher..., my legume love affair, recipe, reviews and contests, sites we love, what's cooking

  I was excited tonight when I discovered a website called Is My Blog Burning?. It is a blog that tracks food events from across the world. Each month, blogs sponsor food-challenges and later compile ...

• Green Business Recognition Ceremony honors What’s Cooking

  Posted on Thursday November 29th, 2007 at 20:19 in cooking, Eco-friendly, energy efficient, green business certification, home based business, Local, marin county, nutrition and news, organic, san rafael, what's cooking

  Thirty-five Marin County businesses will receive their Green Business certification by the Marin County Board of Supervisors at a Green Business Recognition Ceremony on December 4th. The program was ...

• College Bound…and Hungry

  Posted on Sunday November 25th, 2007 at 20:27 in blender recipe, college cooking, college students, cooking, dorm room, freshman 15, healthy recipes, mediterranean recipes, microwave recipe, musings of a cooking teacher..., rice cooker recipe

  A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to teach a cooking class to a dozen high school seniors who are a part of the National Charity League. They were bursting with excitement at the prospect of makin...

• But Canned Pumpkins Are So Much Easier…aren’t they?

  Posted on Monday October 15th, 2007 at 23:51 in cooking, cooking with kids, Eco-friendly, fresh pumpkin recipe, halloween recipe, home-made pumpkin puree, pumpkin bread recipe, pumpkin seeds, real pumpkin

  I am a recycling nut. When I was a teacher, I started a paper recycling program for the whole school. At home, we have separate bins for food waste, paper and plastics/cans. Because of my neurotic...

• Is Deceptively Delicious too Deceptive?

  Posted on Monday October 8th, 2007 at 22:55 in cooking, cooking with kids, deceptively delicious, eating habits, Healthy, jessica seinfeld, meal planning, musings of a cooking teacher..., nutrition, oprah, vegetables, what's cooking weekly

  My blog is getting a lot of attention lately because of an earlier post that I wrote about a book by Jessica Seinfeld called Deceptively Delicious. I found the idea intriguing… She helped her ...