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Kids' Food

Homemade Wontons: Why? Here’s Why.

Making wontons is really, really fun. And it reminded me how worthwhile cooking with your kids is — they get to learn something, be exposed to a food they might not normally eat, and hang out with their mom somewhere besides soccer carpool.

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Recipes

Make This Weekend: Vegetable Stock

T.S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month.” I am going to have to disagree and go with March. Since there’s plenty of soup weather still to come — and because it’s Lent and I get asked this all the time and it’s one of the most useful recipes I know — I wanted to share how to make vegetable stock.

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Being Green

Going Green (Smoothies vs. Juice)

After briefly trying to think of some recipes for “a healthier St. Patrick’s Day,” and coming up completely blank, I decided this seemed like as good a time as any to talk about green smoothies. Heck, they’re green, right? And, if nothing else, drinking one can be an anecdote to any over-indulging you happen to do tonight.

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