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Lunch

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Obviously running a site about food and kids means I’m slightly biased but it feels like everyone I know is inspired to be in the kitchen these days. After a

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Watermelon and Tomato Gazpacho

My guy friends used to tease me that if you wanted to be in my good graces then don’t suggest I have anything to do with the three things I hate. They’d say,

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Adzuki Bean and Brown Rice Salad

This is my friend Jo. After years of not corresponding, it’s funny that we should circle back into each other’s lives because of children (thanks to this very site about cooking

By Meal Type

Home Made Peach Popsicles

SPC is so often about things we love. Easy recipes that make the six o’clock shit show more manageable, cool products made of safe-for-kids materials, amazing parents who are in

Picnics & BBQs

Sweet Potato 5: Quick and Easy Summer Dinner Salads

Have we told you we’re contributing to iVillage.ca? This summer is flying by at such a pace that we’ve been on iVillage.ca for a month now and just realized we

Summer

Ice Cream Sandwiches

I remember when Scarlett was just a baby, maybe 8 months or so, and she had her first taste of ice cream. My mother gave it to her when I

Vegetables

Cobb Salad

What’s the best part of summer entertaining? I love that meals can be simple – some grilled meat, a bit of salad, a bowl of berries – and everyone is

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Strawberry Shortcake Sliders

Long time read­ers of SPC know about my love/hate rela­tion­ship with dessert. Actu­ally a lit­tle hate would help me out. We all love it in my house and that’s the prob­lem.

Fruits

Berry Week: Our Top 4 Berry Recipes

Scarlett has been doing a lot of talking lately about going strawberry picking. She remembers the local farmer who lives down the way from our cottage who swore up and

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Grilled Shrimp Salad

Esme used to say that she wanted to be a chef or a doc­tor. And Ben and I would always tell her that those were skill sets we’d be happy to inte­grate into