Parenting

How to Turn Any Kid Food into Adult Food

Condiment/Spread

How to Turn Any Kid Food into Adult Food

Alsatian Gingerbread

Christmas

Alsatian Gingerbread

Wintery Braised Red Cabbage with Apples & Red Currant Jelly, for the Kids

Cabbage

Wintery Braised Red Cabbage with Apples & Red Currant Jelly, for the Kids

Bright Red Beet Hummus

Hummus

Bright Red Beet Hummus

This week, Nicholas spreads the brilliance of bright red beet hummus.

Nicholas Day
about 5 years ago

Pumpkin Eater: Winter Squash Soup with (Less) Red Chile and Mint

Soup

Pumpkin Eater: Winter Squash Soup with (Less) Red Chile and Mint

The ugliest squash in the pumpkin patch may be the best one of them all.

Nicholas Day
about 5 years ago

A Recipe for Rescuing Frozen Fish

Fish

A Recipe for Rescuing Frozen Fish

Blackened fish is back from the 80s, and this time it's tilapia. Nicholas is not sorry.

Nicholas Day
about 5 years ago

Fruit-Laden, Whole-Grain Pancakes

Pancake

Fruit-Laden, Whole-Grain Pancakes

Nicholas loads his pancakes with whole grains and fruit -- not because it's healthy, because it's good.

Nicholas Day
about 5 years ago

The Fight to Plan Dinner Better (With One Solution)

Tofu

The Fight to Plan Dinner Better (With One Solution)

Nicholas wants to know how you plan dinner, and offers a solution of his own.

Nicholas Day
about 5 years ago

Blueberry Fool with Yogurt

Berry

Blueberry Fool with Yogurt

The next best thing to just eating piles of berries: Nigel Slater's 4-ingredient Blueberry Fool with Yogurt.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

On Green Pancakes and Cooking with Kids

Pancake

On Green Pancakes and Cooking with Kids

A little bit on how parents cook with kids dangling from their limbs.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Low Risk, High Reward: Heidi Swanson's Blueberry Baked Oatmeal

Banana

Low Risk, High Reward: Heidi Swanson's Blueberry Baked Oatmeal

A kid breakfast that's more wholesome than pancakes, and won't send parents down a sugary spiral, either.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Noodles in the Time of Cholera

Chinese

Noodles in the Time of Cholera

Nicholas's survival strategy? When all else fails, turn to pasta.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Pasta

Macaroni Peas

How peas got a bad rap. (Also, a 5-ingredient recipe that's more peas than pasta -- to make up for lost time.)

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Anchovies: The New Salt

Dinner

Anchovies: The New Salt

Anchovies make everything better, even for kids.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

On Bananas (Also, Your Ten-Minute Bowl of Bananas in Coconut Milk)

Banana

On Bananas (Also, Your Ten-Minute Bowl of Bananas in Coconut Milk)

An ode to the banana (plus the fastest, maybe healthiest, definitely not prettiest dessert you'll see today).

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

9 Regional Dishes to Make Dinner Better, Says Nicholas

Dinner

9 Regional Dishes to Make Dinner Better, Says Nicholas

We're revisiting Dinner vs. Child's best regional dishes to date, from both near and far. They'll make dinner better.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Nicholas Day on Babies, Dinner, and Haiku - plus a Giveaway!

Egg

Nicholas Day on Babies, Dinner, and Haiku - plus a Giveaway!

In his new book, Baby Meets World, Nicholas Day sheds a new light on infancy and those mysterious little creatures we call babies. As an excuse to read more of his hilarious writing, we asked him to tell us a little more about babies, share his go-to dinner strategies, and write a haiku.

Marian Bull
over 5 years ago

Alice Medrich's Labneh (Lebni, Labni) Tart

Pie

Alice Medrich's Labneh (Lebni, Labni) Tart

Nicholas' go-to fancy dessert when there's no time to make a fancy dessert. (Eat up, kids -- it's just yogurt, right?)

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Carrots for Dinner, 6 Ways

Carrot

Carrots for Dinner, 6 Ways

Nicholas gives carrots some love, even the uncool ones. (Plus, six ways to let them save dinner.)

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

The Best French Onion Soup for Late Winter

Soup

The Best French Onion Soup for Late Winter

Nicholas brings us the best French onion soup to take on winter (with a secret ingredient you'll never want to miss again).

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

Eat Your (Sichuanese) Beans

Chinese

Eat Your (Sichuanese) Beans

Nicholas has a strategy for easing his kids into the spicy stuff. Or not.

Nicholas Day
over 5 years ago

A Warming Soup for the Freezer

Soup

A Warming Soup for the Freezer

Nicholas finds a freezer-friendly (and child-friendly) soup, but he wants more.

Nicholas Day
almost 6 years ago

Eggs for Dinner, 6 Ways

Egg

Eggs for Dinner, 6 Ways

Nicholas gives us not one, but six, dinner ideas out of an egg. Starting with shakshuka.

Nicholas Day
almost 6 years ago

Panforte: A Fruitcake to Remember

Christmas

Panforte: A Fruitcake to Remember

Nicholas brings us a memorable Italian fruitcake variant.

Nicholas Day
almost 6 years ago

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