In The Kitchen With Redbud
A collaborative zine about cooking and eating
Oh, hey! Redbud kids and families know a lot about food. In fact, we’ve got some stories and ideas to share with you. Maybe you’ll get new ideas for lunch boxes or snacks. Maybe you’ll just feel better about the time someone in your family tried to eat a stick. We’ve got recipes and stories to share. Read on to learn more.
Hey, Redbud kids! What’s something good to eat? Yobop
Cabo cabo Arny
Hummie
Eatmeal
Shaw-co-la
Peabo
Oh, uh…OK. What else? Ice cone Buh’py
Bus
Pampakes Shi muk Capsule
FOOD
Translations Cabo cabo: avocado
Hummie: hummus Eatmeal: oatmeal
Yobop: yogurt Arny: orange
Shaw-co-la: chocolate
Ice cone: ice cream Buh’py: broccoli
Peabo: peanut butter
Bus: pasta Pampakes: pacakes
Shi muk: soy milk
Capsule: popsicle FOOD: um, food
Norah has always liked to help me with my coffee! When she was 1 she used to always help me blow on it and help tip the cup up for me to sip. When she saw a mug or to go cup she would point and say “hot hot!” Her word for coffee was hot, so for a long time we called coffee “hot”! This year since she has been 2 she helps me make coffee, scooping and pouring the grinds, carefully helping me pour the hot water and then at the end she says “squee squee!” Because she wants to watch me squeeze the coffee through the mesh filter which I do at the end. Then she helps mix the milk in and tip the cup up for me to drink.
What’s for lunch?
A-Z Lunchbox Favorites Any kind of cracker Apple slices Baby carrots Berries Blueberries Bread Bunny crackers Carrots Carrots Cheese crackers Cheese stick Chicken nuggets Clementines Cream cheese and raisin sandwich Cucumbers Grilled cheese Hummus Hummus roll-ups
Leftovers from dinner Mac and cheese Pasta Pasta with meat sauce and mushrooms Plantains Peas Rolled up ham slices String cheese String cheese Sunbutter sandwich Sunbutter and raspberry jam sandwiches that she refuses to eat Sweet potato Tofu and peas with sesame oil and soy sauce Watermelon Whatever we just had for dinner Yogurt covered raisins The occasional muffin
This is what you should put in our lunches:
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Ice cream Crackers Raisins Only blueberries Pizza
Family Food Stories
Our Italian family still makes wine and hangs salami in the Veneto, and we view food as a labor of love. We love to center holiday meals around special roasts, and we love coming together to prepare the big feast.
Christmas is a big family holiday during which Finns traditionally cook pork together with multiple casseroles and a variety of sides.
“We have challah and juice every Friday for kiddish and motzi. Izzy helped bake hamentaschen and challah with his grandma.”
“Lulu loves the Chinese food cooked by her grandparents, and which her mother will start cooking more often one of these days. She tasted an apple pie made by Ellen (Thea's mom) at Thanksgiving, and that cemented the idea that pie is a special, sublime thing that she wants all the time.”
“Usually on one day of the weekends we have pancakes.” “Saturday morning pampakes with papa, cheese toast at Nanapoppy's” “Adam often makes blueberry pancakes/bacon/ eggs on the weekends, which has been a bit hit.”
“We always make pancakes on Saturday morning.”
Jimmy is obsessed with cucumbers. He asks to buy them at the store. Gets super excited when I offer them at meals, "Oh thank you Mama. I LOVE cucumbers!" He talks about eating them all the time. He has NEVER eaten one.
“Clove spiced ham and stuffed mushrooms, peanut butter blossoms & gingerbread cookies for Christmas, latkes with homemade apple sauce for Hanukkah, brisket and chicken Marbella for Passover, cranberry apple sauce is a favorite for the kids for thanksgiving. We go apple and peach picking in August and make huge batches of apple peach sauce which I can about 10-15 jars and we eat all winter. Usually try to pick and make strawberry rhubarb jam and sometimes peach jam as well. Fruit picking and eating are some of our favorites summer activities.�
Adam once asked Lulu: "Are you going to cook when you grow up?" and she said "Yeah!" and he asked "What will you cook?" and she said "Apple pie." This was last fall. She likes pretending to cook with us, and will make combos like "fish and pie."
“We sometimes get a selection of 3-4 new foods and have a Taste Adventure where we taste them all and talk about what they are like. Every so often these are super delicious treats, which keeps it exciting and breeds enthusiasm.”
“Our kiddo has proven an expert at all things measuring, mixing, pouring, and baking. Eating our creations? Not so much. Not even the most delicious of cakes and treats!”
When Avery was about 9 months old we would let her teeth on pizza crust. She loved it so much and was so soothed by it, she would often fall asleep in her high with a piece hanging out of her mouth!
Things my child has tried to eat that are not food: Decorative gravel from a planter Sticks while pretending to be a puppy. Used to chew on sides of her crib. Likes to chew on chew/bite toys. Once she put a dead fly in her mouth (when she was about 14 months old). Unrelated: when she was younger, she also had one night when she took a noodle and put it on her head like a headband. Most recently, a bar of white soap that looked sort of like tofu. Dirt.
We are Redbud kids. This is what we like to eat: Avocado, cottage cheese, bananas, spring rolls, plantains, corn
grilled cheese, carrots, frozen yogurt, pampakes, cheese toast
Hummus (“hummie�), banana muffins, tofu Pizza, tofu with garlic sauce, broccoli, ice cream
Tomatoes, Kiwis, Smoked Salmon, Cheese Yobop (Yogurt), Arny (orange), Eatmeal (Oatmeal). steamed carrots, veggie nuggets, ice cream, smoothies, any kind of bar
Oatmeal, rice, pasta blueberries, pie (real and imaginary) Raisins and tofu Popsicles
CC Riot & Redbud Families 2019