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Chicken fried steak on a bed of mashed purple sweet potatoes

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An easy purple sweet potato recipe to add a pop of color to your side dishes. Learn how to cook a smooth and creamy mashed purple sweet potato with just 3 ingredients. In this blog post, I’m sharing my recipe for mashed purple sweet potatoes, and you’ll see how easy it is to incorporate Okinawan […]

How to Cook Mashed Purple Sweet Potatoes

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caprese salad with tomatoes and burrata presented beautifully on a large white plate

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An aesthetically vibrant salad with fresh flavors of tomato varieties, complemented with the creaminess of burrata and a roasted tomato dressing. This time of year, heirloom tomatoes are in full bloom. They are usually available from the summer till the early fall. We live in Texas so it gets warm here pretty quick, and right […]

CAPRESE SALAD WITH HEIRLOOM TOMATOES, BURRATA AND ROASTED TOMATO VINAIGRETTE

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When summer is in full swing, there’s no better way to combat the warm weather than with a fresh, light and easy pasta dish. One of my favorite summer dinners (and actually, year-round) is arugula pasta with baked chicken. This recipe makes a hearty meal that’s ready in less than half an hour and comes […]

Arugula Pasta with Baked Chicken: An Easy and Delicious Recipe

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Mom and daughter cooking in the home kitchen

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In this blog, we’ve talked a lot about how cooking will improve your child’s life.  It’s true, cooking classes can improve a child’s mental health, provide skills that help them live with developmental delays and disabilities, expand their palates, and give them ways of relating to others that will serve them well in adulthood.   […]

8 Ways Teaching Your Kid to Cook Will Improve Your Life

Cooking is a productive hobby compared to others

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Occupational therapy exercises can be especially hard to add to your day. Kids find many of them boring and it feels like both parent and kid are minutes away from an epic meltdown.  But what if there was a way to improve self-control, fine motor skills, emotional control, and concentration that was fun and rewarding for both parent and child alike? Enter, cooking! 

Cooking with Your Child as Occupational Therapy at Home

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Working together in a kitchen is a delicate dance

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Cooking and eating as a family can seem impossible when everyone has different allergies, intolerances, health demands or ethical concerns.

Here are a few options to expand your palates and your diet!

Cooking for Food Intolerances? Go Global with these 5 Cuisines

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Are you looking forward to the day when you can finally take a break from the dinner rotation and enjoy a meal prepared by your children? Then it’s time to teach your child to make these five delicious, easy meals that combine healthy ingredients with important cooking skills.

Teach Your Kid These Five Recipes Before Age 13 to Raise a Great Chef

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