Deconstructed Persian watermelon salad on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Les Petits Chefs make Persian Watermelon Salad with Shayma Saadat

This week, the Petits Chefs were lucky enough to work with Shayma Saadat again. We’ve worked with Shayma a few times before – she’s taught the boys to make Afghan dumplings, we’ve made Saffron Potato Fritters and last spring we made potato “cutlets” in the Pakistani manner.  Shayma is a food writer, cookery teacher, and … Read more

The finished dish Earls Restaurant tortilla soup on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Les Petits Chefs make Earl’s Restaurant Tortilla Soup from The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook

For this week’s edition of Cook the Books, Les Petits Chefs worked from The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook. I wrote about The Soup Sisters Family Cookbook late last year: This is the third cookbook in the bestselling Soup Sisters cookbook series, and contains  over 100 family-friendly recipes to make and share with kids of all … Read more

French Fridays: Savoury cheesecake with ratatouille

Happy (French) Friday! I’m in the last throes of signing off on bits and pieces on my manuscript (we’re at the index!) and starting to think ahead to marketing and publicity (choosing recipes to share with media outlets eventually) and my head has been deep in recipes this week. While I love the baking component … Read more