Nom Nom Time
Nom Nom Time makes family food fun: easy meals kids actually eat, lunchbox and snack ideas, recipes to cook together, and the fun side of food.
Every popcorn kernel is a tiny pressure cooker: water turns to steam inside a tough hull until it bursts. Here is what happens, why some kernels never pop, a pricked-kernel test to try with kids, and the popcorn legend to check at Thanksgiving.
A mild, cheesy baked ziti that makes two pans: bake one tonight and freeze the other. The trick is draining the pasta 2 minutes early so it stays tender in the oven.
Two bites, mildly spiced and nut-free, and they go into the lunchbox frozen and come out soft at noon. One can of pumpkin, about 36 muffins.
A bag of freshly picked apples and an afternoon: four recipes where kids do most of the work, from mashing applesauce to rubbing butter into crisp topping, with the grown-up jobs marked.
By Monday, Thursday's turkey is on its last fridge day. A little planning on Friday turns it into the easiest school lunch of the year, hot or cold.
Apple-slice feathers, a pear for a body, two blueberry eyes: a turkey plate keeps small helpers busy while dinner cooks. How to set it up, cut it safely for toddlers, and keep a party platter fresh.
A three-year-old can make a real contribution to Thanksgiving dinner, and a teenager can make the pie. What to hand each age, the jobs that stay with grown-ups, and how to keep a crowded kitchen calm.
Cut apples turn brown when an enzyme meets oxygen. Here is what happens inside the fruit, why lemon juice stops it, whether brown apples are safe, and a four-plate kitchen test to try with kids.
A simple fruit salad to make with kids, with jobs for toddlers, 4–7s, 8–12s and teens, the bridge and claw knife grips, how to cut round fruit safely, choking-safety tips for under-4s and allergen swaps.
Nut-free mini banana muffins you bake on the weekend, freeze, and pack straight from the freezer. They thaw by lunchtime. With kid jobs by age and allergen swaps.
Preheat the jar with boiling water, fill it with steaming food and keep the lid shut. How to keep a hot school lunch at a safe 140°F, what to pack, and tips for younger kids.
Brown the chicken, toast the rice in the same pan, add broth and let the oven finish it. A mild one-pot chicken and rice with peas and carrots that feeds six, with kid jobs, allergen swaps and storage tips.
