These easy mashed potatoes are the creamiest, most delicious version of a childhood favorite–except they’re simpler and a little more nutritious than what I grew up with. We gave mashed potatoes the Foodlets treatment. What you need to make easy mashed potatoes Yellow/gold potatoes Salt & pepper Plain Greek yogurt Optional: Riced cauliflower What makes…
Old-Fashioned Potato Salad
I grew up eating my grandma’s old-fashioned potato salad recipe and there’s nothing better. I’ve tried a dozen different recipes and Ina Garten’s French potato salad with fresh herbs is a close second. But this old-fashioned potato salad recipe remains my favorite. Old-Fashioned Potato Salad Shortcuts If you’re a busy parent, the idea of making…
Potato Galette Recipe with Feta, Corn & Dill
For a luxurious lunch or a hearty vegetarian dinner along side a salad, my kids LOVE this potato galette recipe. With whole-wheat flour, chick peas for protein and tons of potassium-rich potatoes, it’s a healthy meal. Add all that butter, sweet corn and creamy feta and you’ve got a treat. Here’s how I make our…
Sausage, Kale and Bean Soup: A Nutritious Soup Kids Love
Soup season is the best. I love a hearty dinner full of fresh ingredients that comes together quickly, reheats like a dream (Lunch is ready!) and freezes beautifully for another dinner altogether. Our newest family favorite is Sausage, Kale and Bean Soup, a simple recipe that kids (and husbands) love! We get our sausage (and…
How to Make the Best Baked Potatoes Ever
This is the only recipe you’ll ever need for baked potatoes. If you like baked potatoes with pillowy white centers and flavorful skins, make these now. Because EVERYONE will love them. Foodlets Reviews Real comments from my very real 4 children. I only add new recipes when we have at least 3 thumbs ups. Phoebe…
Sheet Pan Honey-Mustard Chicken with Potatoes and Broccoli
There’s a honey-mustard chicken dish that everyone in my family loves. And when I say family, I don’t just mean my kids. I’m talking cousins. In-laws. Friends of cousins. That sweet and tangy sauce slathered over juicy chicken thighs is hard to beat. Except when you cook the whole thing over potatoes and add a side…
Sausage, Sweet Potatoes & Apples: A Sheet Pan Dinner Your Kids Will Love
I’ve been trying to write this post for 2 years. Roasted sausage, sweet potatoes and apples on a sheet pan is an easy, delicious meal that everyone loves every time. That’s the problem. It’s one of my Hail Mary meals when I need dinner done fast–throwing whatever veggies I can find on a sheet pan, along with…
lettuce wraps with steak & carrots
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I JUST WANT TO TRY SOMETHING NEW. Despite how the kids might react. When I made lettuce wraps with steak and carrots, I knew there would be resistance from the knee-high critics but sometimes, every once in a while, I don’t care. If we agree that a win is when everyone tries a bit,…
perfectly flavored london broil (aka, meat your kids will eat!)
THE OTHER DAY I MADE CHICKEN CUTLETS for dinner and when I saw my four-year-old dunking each bite in her water glass, I had to ask… “This makes it softer on my teeth,” she told me. Note to self: Don’t overcook the chicken. My three small kids aren’t always the biggest meat fans but when it’s…
healthier fish & chips for kids
THE LAST TIME I HAD FISH & CHIPS–AND THE FIRST TIME THE KIDS EVER HAD IT–WAS IN LONDON. Doesn’t that sound lovely? Except, the rest of my memories include being very, very sick. No, not food poisoning, just the flu. But the worst flu, and even worse timing. We were actually moving from Rome to…
one-pot roasted lemon chicken with green beans & potatoes
RIDICULOUSLY GOOD. And easy. And all the kids eat it. That’s what I have to say about this chicken recipe, the one making the rounds on Facebook right now (have you seen it?) that’s actually from Real Simple. And also this: We’ve had this recipe twice in the last week and might have it again….
Parmesan mashed potatoes with kale, yes kale (A 101 Cookbooks recipe makeover)
THIS IS THE LAST ONE. We’ve been cooking with Heidi Swanson’s recipes for the last few weeks (among others), from the jaw-droppingly beautiful website 101 cookbooks. Honestly, if all food were that gorgeous, who wouldn’t want to focus on healthy eating all the time? And with that in mind, I set out to amp up…
Roasted fall vegetables: potatoes and fennel
I’VE SAID IT BEFORE AND IT’S STILL TRUE: if your kids are reluctant to eat veggies, the best thing you can do is roast them. The veggies, not the kids. Here’s my favorite way to prepare almost any vegetable, and bonus, the best way to slide a new one in there too. We combined a…
Tuna nicoise potato salad, Italian style
I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING. What kids eat salad? For dinner? If serving a fresh potato salad isn’t in the cards for your crew, consider using the same ingredients to create a plate that works for everyone, without a lot of extra effort on your part. (Also, French kids eat salad. Really!)
Poached eggs with hash brown potatoes and peppers
BREAKFAST FOR DINNER is one of our go-to techniques for dinner in a hurry. Now that we’ve got a third Foodlet on-hand, make that in-arms, cooking can be a little more complicated. As in, how can I make dinner and look after the toddler, preschooler and newborn baby without anyone accidentally getting grilled in the…
Recipe Makeover: Jamie Oliver’s 30-minute scalloped potatoes with onions
My version of Jamie Oliver’s scalloped potatoes with onions is one of our family’s favorite side dishes. One we almost didn’t know about it. I made a discovery. Jamie Oliver’s 30 Minute Meals has been on one of our 900 Italian cable channels for quite some time but always dubbed, in Italian. I’d sort of given…
Oven roasted potatoes with garlic, rosemary and lemon
FOR SOMEONE WHO TOLD ME THREE TIMES she doesn’t like potatoes, Phoebe sure ended up eating a lot of them last night! In fact, she had three helpings. They were toddler-size but still, nine potatoes later, it was quite a night for spuds. Even Estelle managed to mow down two big wedges herself, quite a…