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Why cheap? I adore pasta and beans, and somehow, so do my kids. Aaaah, bacala in red sauce at christmas. Oh, and my favorite little number that I try to recrete now and again: it's sort of like a spread made with tomato paste, anchovies, fennel, and crushed red pepper (as best that I can tell). Lather that on some great bread and it's all over. I wish I knew what my cousins called it.

Thanks in advance - I can't wait! I make tiramisu every Christmas, sometimes Thanksgiving, for my Italian family, but I woudl love a butternut squash twist. A google search landed me empty handed.

We are a young-ish family of five and our kids love my home-made nori rolls, Pad Thai from the place down the street, and dumplings (frozen from the bag, of course...) with fried rice night. On a trip last year to NYC we headed for real dumplings in Chinatown (although a friend has since directed me to Flushing for our next trip). We sat down, ordered dumplings in the mid afternoon and dug in. However, these were not dumplings we were accustomed to; all sorts of broth came gushing out. So, without asking what to do, we poked them, drained them and ate them. They were yummy. We must have drank the broth, too, separately. On our way out, satisfied we conquered our family Chinatown experience, we looked at the newspaper clippings on the outside of the restaurant. And there it was: directions how to eat 'soup dumplings' (I think they were called) by piercing the dumpling in the spoon and slurping the goodness up all together. We learned that day to a) read the clippings on the outside of restaurants, b) ask if we don't know, and c) how to eat/slurp soup dumplings.

If your're cooking with kids, you gotta try home-made Kettle Corn - on the stove (Google a recipe). We love it! Piles of the stuff!

Water. A nice, tall, cool glass of water. No ice. Cool water.