daniellewiley

Because food plays such an important role in my life, I love getting food-related books for my kids. With the holidays coming up, it seemed like a good time to share our recommendations of children's food books with each other. We have a few that we really love and are always looking for more. Please remember to use the eGullet Amazon link when linking to a particular book. My two favorites: Little Pea This is an adorable book targeted to three- and four-year olds. Little Pea has a great life with his Pea family, but hates eating dinner! Every night, he must eat five pieces of yucky candy in order to get a giant bowl of his favorite dessert; spinach!! My daughter loves this book - it makes her laugh everytime we read it, and it's a fun way to get across the message that it's important to eat healthy foods. Two Old Potatoes and Me Dylan (my daughter) just got this book tonight as an early fourth birthday present from her Aunt. What a terrific concept... A girl finds two old potatoes in her kitchen and she and her dad cut them up and plant them in the garden. The book (with great prose and charming illustrations) takes the reader through the entire planting and growing process and finishes with a mashed potato recipe. Dylan was riveted by this book and now wants to plant potatoes!!

Thanks Bret!! I'm actually friendly with Todd, and have been trying to help him sell some more turkeys. I will indeed be getting one from him. Thanks!!

It wasn't really my gourmet tendency that led to this trickery, but it is food-related, so I'll share... My older cousin Dan used to trick me and my brother into drinking milk. He'd hold up his arm as if to make a muscle, but he wouldn't flex his bicep right away. He'd use his other hand to hold a glass of milk, and as he drank the milk, he'd flex his muscle, making it look like the milk was causing the muscle to grow dramatically, and immediately in size! David and I BOTH fell for this trickery!!

Our local supermarkets carry the Arkansas Black - definitely a delicious apple. I grew up loving Macouns - sadly, they aren't available here in the midwest. Just tried a new variety today, and it was awesome, but I've forgotten the name! I'll need to head back to the market to check it out. It was huge, crisp and tart-sweet. Perfect. I love apples out of hand, but only cut into wedges. I don't like eating them whole. I often spread some peanut butter on them. Lately, I've been making baked apples for a late night snack.

Hey Soba, What brand whey powder do you favor? And do you drink any other special sports drinks? My husband is very much into lifting and the accompanying "drinks". His pre-workout breakfast is vanilla whey mixed with water. After his workout, he has strawberry myoplex deluxe blended with frozen fruit, water and OJ. For lunch, he has orange-flavored fiber blended with frozen fruit and water. Glad to see that you actually do ingest some solids!!

I can't stand temp tee. My brother ate it all the time growing up, and, actually, that was the only cream cheese we had in the house. I thought I didn't like cream cheese, but actually, I just didn't like temp tee. It creeps me out.

Fresser is our very own Lenny Bruce: click!

Could you remove the label and frame it? I think that could be a kind of cool, kitschy piece of art, if the label is retro like you say! Plus, it's a fun memory! Not the point of the thread, but just a thought! I think the oldest thing in my pantry is a box of taco shells that I'm sure are beyond cardboard! ← I love that idea! I'm going to explore the removeability (?) of the label.

As we de-clutter our house in preparation for an upcoming move (we hope), I started thinking about all the crazy things in my cupboards. I have some really old stuff that I'm too stubborn to throw out. The oldest, by far, is a can of squash pie. We never intended on eating it. Michael and I bought it on our first overnight trip together. We were visiting my friend in New Hampshire, and saw this can in a crummy little grocery store. It looked very retro and it made us laugh. In NY, it sat on our window sill. This was early 1996. It's now in my corner cabinet. I don't really know what to do with this can of squash pie. I'd be sad to throw it out, I'm afraid to eat it, and so it sits there, amusing me and taking up space. Second oldest is a can of escargot that I purchased in Ann Arbor in 1998 or so. What ancient items do you all have lurking in the recesses of your pantries?

Since it's likely food-related, I don't think this is right, but it looks placenta-ish to me.

Oooohh, I'm jealous - I love Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc. We, sadly, didn't have time to cook due to dance class. But, we went out for bibimbap, so I was happy regardless.

Can I come play?? I made butternut squash soup in the crockpot and beer bread. Served with a bottle of 2000 Bedell Cellars Cupola that Michael received as a gift for speaking at a conference. I topped the soup with a dollop of Total Greek yogurt. All Dylan ate was bread and the yogurt. For dessert, we had Appenzeller cheese with more of the wine.

It looks like you're pissing off that lady in the center.

re: kohlrabi, I love it raw. I peel it, slice it very thinly, and salt and pepper it excessively. yummy

My mom tried a free sample of the blueberry iced coffee this summer. She said it wasn't gross, but it was way weaker than the regular variety. Kind of watery, in fact. I'm just jealous that the DD there has iced coffee!! No one sells that here - just iced lattes, etc.

This might have been discussed previously, but I kept getting results about photography OF cakes. What I want to know about is photography ON cakes. I've seen it done on cheapo grocery store cakes, but would love to play with it on a high quality homemade cake. My daughter's birthday is coming up, and she wants a princess cake. I thought it would be fun to have her actual face on the cake, and then I could decorate around it with a princess dress and crown, etc. etc.

Um, no. That wouldn't go over so well.... ← OK, I won't embarrass myself by asking for some when I come visit. (Sauerkraut isn't big here in Toledo either)

Can you vary the toppings at all? Like, could you get sauerkraut, or do they only have those that you described? (NY girl here)

Well, here's a hint: it's a meat marinade that includes apple. ← Ahhhh.... bibimbop. I have an asian pear in my fridge awaiting the exact same fate. What cut of meat did you use?

Same here - I haven't been since college, but I always loved it. I lived in Cape Cod for a summer, and we used to come into Providence for shows and shopping. I remember eating at a restaurant that was part of a bookstore. It was the first time I ever had baked brie. I also have very fond memories of an egg truck on the Brown campus. It was late, we were drunk, and we had awesome eggs very late at night, sitting on a curb.

Thanks Tammy - I got my birds from him last year as well. (And also ended up with two small ones instead of one larger.) We didn't love them. The turkey I got from Bill Lockwood the year previous was much better, but last year he didn't raise them b/c of the timing of a trip to Europe. I found his email and emailed him last night - I'll let you all know if he has any this year.

This is where we used to get our turkeys. It was sad when they closed. That said, they were the standard broad-breasted variety (not heritage), and weren't free range or organic, (that I know of), so we had switched to smaller suppliers a couple of years prior to their closing.

The above lunch, including the BUzz Lightyear box would be Dylan's dream lunch. I'm afraid to show her, for fear I'll need to recreate it! What are the rectangles? Tempeh or egg?

We use a crockpot to keep 'em warm.

For the past few years, we've gotten heritage turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner, from local sources. We weren't terribly thrilled with our turkeys last year, so we're looking to find another source. We are in Toledo, and I'm willing to drive up to an hour and a half to fetch said bird. Not sure how this should proceed in terms of eGullet rules - I'm happy to receive information via PM if it's not appropriate for the forum.