Pamela Chester
Specialty: Kid-Friendly Food, Crockpot/Slow Cooker
Education: New York University, French Culinary Institute
Lives: Philadelphia, PA
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Celebrating the Year of the Dragon!
Today marks the first day of the Chinese New Year, fifteen days of celebration in honor of the lunar New Year. In China, the Chinese New Year holiday is the most festive celebration of the year.
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Taking a Day to Give Back
As we celebrate the Martin Luther King holiday today, lots of us are busy rolling up our sleeves and pitching in to help our neighbors. In remembrance of Dr. King’s contribution to America, many schools,...
Ethnic Eats For Kids
As mother to two somewhat particular eaters, I am constantly encouraging them to eat more variety to make sure we get all the nutrients we need in our diets. But I am a creature of habit myself, so I...
Rub a Dub Dub, Cooking Up Some Fun In The Tub!
With the close of the holiday season, you and your kids may feel like you’ve been stuck in the house for a long time. With a long, cold winter ahead for many parts of the United States, you may be looking...
Juice It Up To A Happy And Healthy New Year!
Sometimes, after all the excessive indulgence of the holidays, a glass of fresh squeezed juice is just the ticket. We have recently discovered the joy of making our own orange juice. With a little bit...
Ho Ho Ho and Some Holiday Munchies!
If your family is anything like mine, then holiday excitement has reached a fever pitch! We’ve spent the past few weeks decorating, baking cookies, wrapping, and planning our Christmas menus. With...
Kiddie Sized Holiday Bites and Nibbles
Are your kids big snackers? Well then the holiday season is the perfect time for them! Bite sized foods abound at various holiday gatherings, school parties and family celebrations. Everything from...
Gingerbread Making: Catch Me If You Can
Having kids in the house means that we break out the Christmas decorations and music the moment the Thanksgiving dishes are washed and put away. And once the holiday season is fully underway, we are all...
A Thanksgiving as American as Apple Pie
With a busy preschooler in the house, we are knee deep in Thanksgiving arts and crafts this year. Homemade feather headdresses and pilgrim bonnets, and of course the infamous turkey made out of a hand...
With a Cluck Cluck Here and an Oink Oink There!
Every year my husband and his friends have a tradition of staging a pig roast. They wake up at the crack of dawn one November Saturday morning and get all the guys together. With a secret recipe and...
Breakfast For Dinner!
You’re in the middle of another hectic week, and nobody has had time to do a grocery run. Between work, going to the gym, and shuttling kids back and forth from school and their various activities,...
Trick or Treat?
This week I did something that I think would have surprised myself ten or twenty years ago. I bought a sack of individually wrapped Halloween pretzels to give out along with our Halloween candy! They...
How to Eat Like a Rainbow
You hear it all the time from the nutrition advocates: for the most healthful diet, eat a rainbow of naturally colorful foods. The foods that contain the deepest hues also happen to have the most nutritional...
Introducing Your Kids to the Joys of Pesto
Today marks another national holiday, Columbus Day. Whether your kids are off from school or not, you can celebrate this “minor holiday” with an easy pasta dinner tonight, featuring homemade pesto....
Can You Put It In The Microwave?
What’s the most essential piece of technology in the kitchen for the modern family? Nope, it’s not the computer notebook or smart phone (although I’m starting to find those devices more and more...
When Getting Your Kids to Eat Is A Challenge
It’s time I make a little confession: I have trouble getting my one and a half year old son to eat! Even though I write this column and am always trying to come up with new ways to get kids to enjoy...