Roasted Peach Sundaes
This easy dessert satisfies a sweet tooth while adding another serving of fruit, contributing vitamins and antioxidants. Prep Time: 5 minutes Ready in: 30 minutes Yield: 6 servings Ease of Prep: Easy Recipe Ingredients 3 ripe peaches , halved and pitted 1 tablespoon brown sugar 2 teaspoons lemon juice 3 cups nonfat vanilla frozen yogurt [...]
Carrot tzimmes
This easy dessert satisfies a sweet tooth while adding another serving of fruit, contributing vitamins and antioxidants. Prep Time: 5 minutes Ready in: 30 minutes Yield: 6 servings Ease of Prep: Easy Recipe Ingredients 3 ripe peaches , halved and pitted 1 tablespoon brown sugar 2 teaspoons lemon juice 3 cups nonfat vanilla frozen yogurt [...]
Tzimmes is one of the dishes served on Sabbath and festivals, especially Rosh Hashanah and Succoth. This savoury-sweet fruit and vegetable stew has rich, melting flavours, and is best made a day in advance, to allow the flavours to mellow. Ingredients 1 large onion, finely chopped 2 tbsp margarine (or shmaltz, chicken fat, for a meat meal) [...]
Peachy Peach Jam
It’s funny–I started to title this post “Preserving Summer,” and then it occurred to me that preserving, in this and that way, is turning out to be my life’s work. I think all the time about what I would bottle if I could: the beloved-animal smell of Ben’s hair; the way Birdy’s silky limbs slide [...]
Satiny Chocolate Sauce
We are a family who eats dessert more or less every night. Not me, usually, on account of the metabolic love letter I’m always writing to salt; I mean, if I’m going to take dietary measures to enlarge my fanny, I’d really rather go all-out and pop open a can of Pringles and eat them [...]
Cut That: Simple Ways to Slash Sugar
Your five-year-old asks for sugar on top of her already sweetened cereal. Then your sleepy 10-year-old wants free-pouring rights with the maple syrup. It doesn’t take a degree in nutrition to know this is sweet-stuff overkill. But because sugar isn’t always that easy to spot, your child can pack away an astonishing quantity before you [...]
Cut That: Simple Ways to Slash Sugar
Your five-year-old asks for sugar on top of her already sweetened cereal. Then your sleepy 10-year-old wants free-pouring rights with the maple syrup. It doesn’t take a degree in nutrition to know this is sweet-stuff overkill. But because sugar isn’t always that easy to spot, your child can pack away an astonishing quantity before you [...]
Low-Sugar Drinks for Kids
With all the tempting sodas and fruit juices out there, plain old water may not get your kids too excited to kick the sugar habit. But these refreshing, all-natural twists on H2O have just enough flavor to satisfy their thirst without the sweet overload. Watermelon Water Agua de Jamaica With Mint Cucumber-Lemon Water
Mango Fro-Yo Pops
We were trying to recreate the awesome mango shakes we’d gotten from an Indian restaurant — these perfectly creamy, cold, and mango-y lassis. And they’re incredible. You’re kids will love them, because one bite of this luscious, tropically fragrant pop is like a mouthful of summer. Not to mention they’re packed with nutrition from the [...]