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Cheryl

Cheryl is a mom to two energetic and strong-willed little girls. It’s a good thing they already like her cooking. She blogs the family’s cooking and taste adventures at Backseat Gourmet.

Nourishment

Stop and Savor the Season

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Written by Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet We’ve been going hard here at Simple Bites about preserving summer. It’s all about saving those bits of sunshine to brighten a dismal January day. But what if you need to brighten a dismal August day? Just because the weather is great, the kids are out of school, or [...]

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Preserving

Canning 101: Sweet Cherries for Winter Days

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Written by Cheryl of Backseat Gourmet My Baba was the canning and preserving queen. It wasn’t a fun, retro thing for her. It was about survival. And survival meant more than enough food to make it through the winter. It also meant a little bit of sunshine on a cold, harsh winter’s day on the [...]

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Kids in the Kitchen

Knife Skills for Toddlers

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My kids have been in the kitchen with me from the moment they were old enough to stand, unsupported, on a chair. By nature toddlers want to be where there parents are, so if Mama is in the kitchen, the kids usually are as well. We only baked together at first. I walked through our [...]

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Dinner

Been to a Farm Lately? (Recipe: Asparagus & Cherry Tomato Pizza)

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Much can be said about the environmental and economic benefits of eating locally sourced foods. More can be said about the adage that a local food advocate from my town often uses: Eat food you know from people you know. Every summer my family makes more than a handful of pilgrimages to local farms. These trips [...]

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Kids in the Kitchen

How To Help Your Child Embrace Food

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As my kids get older I am starting to believe that fussy eaters are partially made, not born. There is an element of kid personality in there – stubborn, adventurous, fearful, curious – but there is also what we, as parents do that contribute to picky eating. This isn’t about blame or any kind of [...]

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