Spices

Spices

Beef Curry

“Don’t freak out” is how my daughter greets me when I pick her up from school when she’s done poorly on a spelling test or lost a mitten or, last

By Season

Cardamom Crescent Cookies

For 51 weeks of the year Laura and I use SPC as a place to talk about how/what/why of healthy family food. We’re all, “Kale is awesome!” and “Have you

Snacks & Desserts

Baked French Toast with Apples and Cinnamon Syrup

Most Sunday mornings are the same at our place. Ben and I rock-paper-scissors for who gets to sleep in, the kids get a luxurious dose of morning cartoons and eventually

Spices

Pumpkin and Spiced Apple Slow Cooked Oats

Ceri and I have both been climatizing ourselves to our new school years. I say “ours” because school is not just about the kid. Ask any parent who spends an

By Ingredient

Lisa’s Letters Home: Curry In a Hurry

One of the most quintessentially British dishes isn’t fish and chips, pie and mash, or toad in the hole – it’s a good ol’ curry. One of our son’s first foods was

Pasta

Meal Plan April 18, 2016

I have a confession to make and I’m hoping you’ll understand. I’m not going to be using the meal plan this week. #gasp Well, I might by the end of

Spring

A Healthy Twinkie

I tried to think of the worst possible thing I could make good when it came to our theme for this week: Bad Things Gone Good. Lots of foods came

By Meal Type

Pumpkin-Gingerbread Cupcakes

When chicken pox strike you’re stuck at home–For a looooooooooooong time. I guess this means you can count on a lot of posts from us. With half of “Day One: The

By Season

Gingerbread Man Cookies

My aunt spends a day baking early in December and then freezes the 10 million cookies she makes. When it gets closer to the holidays, she defrosts everything, divides them up

Winter

Nutmeg Crumble Cake

When I was living in New York City I used to spend my summers in Fire Island. The sliver of land off the coast of Long Island is mostly reachable by