Christine Gable

Specialty: Slow Cooker/Crockpot, Kids' Cuisine
Education: Millersville University, Vermont College
Lives: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


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Here to Stay: Whole Grain Snack Ideas
My kids have a joke about my favorite bread: it’s that 12-plus multi-grain bread with all those crunchy seeds and grains. They say “the more, the better for Mom!” and wonder if there will ever...


Dippity Do: Easy After-School Snacks
When your kids get home hungry and tired after a busy day of school, what do they need most? Well, besides a welcome smile and hug and a listening ear, they probably need a healthy protein boost to pick...


Back-to-School With Whole Grains
Are kasha, oat groats and brown rice common fare at your house? Probably not. Yet starting this school year, your kids may get an extra healthy lunchtime boost from just that: yep, whole grains. That’s...


New Food of the Month: Coconut Milk
With food trends turning global, the kids and I have been spending more time exploring the international aisle of the market. This month we tried coconut milk. Sure, we’ve tried drilling, cracking...


I Scream, You Scream . . . Easy Ice Cream Sorbet
Chopping, pulverizing, pureeing and crushing . . . sometimes working in the kitchen requires heavy-duty equipment and power tools. Certainly squashing, pummeling and mashing the next meal are not techniques...


It's the Pizza Hour
Pizza. It’s a rare kid—or adult—who doesn’t like it. USA Today recently reported that 94 percent of Americans eat pizza. Whether you order out, go for frozen or decide to make your own, pizza...


New Food of the Month: Plantains
Geography. It certainly wasn’t a favorite school subject. But then again, I came to appreciate the countries of the world as a late bloomer and through the back door. The back door to the kitchen,...


Blueberries: Summer's Handpicked Bounty
The berries were clustered together in groups of six, eight and ten; as we reached among the leaves, the previous night’s rainstorm’s rivulets ran down our arms. Slipping the occasional berry in our...


Recipes, Baking and Creativity
One recipe: A list of common amounts and ingredients, yet it can hold many a memory—simple combinations that can bring forth hopes and dreams, from generations of family traditions to improved health...


Bedtime Stories: Sweet Dreams
I recently had the pleasure of rereading a book that my son and I discovered many years ago—it’s one of those memorable stories that can bring a smile and chuckle for days afterwards. Have you read...


New Food of the Month: Key Limes
July’s new food of the month packs a lot of punch into a little package, for it offers not only a cool and refreshing taste, but also an interesting history: the Key lime. Share this tidbit with the...


Picnic Dessert on a Stick: Fruit Sparklers
We had dinner with friends recently, and afterward, our sons surprised us with beautiful fruit shish kebabs. Strawberry-studded jewels were interspersed with green squares of honeydew, with small brownie...


Edible Art: Food For Play
Just the other day we were surveying the ingredients we needed for making sushi, and the dark-green, shiny sheets of nori caught my daughter’s attention. “Mommy, this would be fun to cut! I could...


Thanks, Dad: Great Grilled Food
Whether his choice of fuel is charcoal, gas or just plain wood, most dads love food cooked over an open flame. With over 15 million grills and smokers sold in the United States in 2005, grilling certainly...


New Food of the Month: Ugli Fruit
Its misshapen, wrinkled, dimpled peel caught her eye. Did that spotty, yellowish-green appearance seem out of place among the other attractive fruit in the produce department? Evidently, since my kids...


Chocolate Discovery
My seven-year-old daughter recently chose a topic to create an educational display for an end-of-year annual learning fair. Her choice? Chocolate. Chocolate lovers that we both are, this was the...