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5 New Mexico Foods to Cook with Your Kids

by Alison

April 21, 2009

Have fun in the kitchen with your kids and enjoy (and perhaps discover for the first time) some traditional New Mexicand foods. Here are some  recipes your kids can help with.

Sopaipillas: According to Epicurious.com, sopaipillas are thought to have originated here in Albuquerque. One of my favorite part about eating at New Mexican restaurants is the sopaipillas that follow the meal! Bring the taste to your own kitchen and let your kids help out. You can purchase mixes at the grocery store or make them from scratch (google sopaipillas to find a recipe). Your preschooler can mix the ingredients and then top them with powdered sugar and/or honey when you're finished frying them.

Tostadas: Lay out a bunch of ingredients (beans, meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.) and your child can build his own tostada and put just what he wants on it. You can do the same things with tacos or burritos, but the fact that tostada shells are flat make it easier for the kids to top them.

Tamales: Tamales are especially popular here around Christmastime, as you surely know. Our family has started a tradition of making tamales each Christmas. Our four-year-old helps spread the masa and put in the fillings. For more information on how our family does tamales, check out this post.

Enchiladas: Cheese enchiladas are a favorite meal for both my four-year-old and one-year-old. I add in a can of plain tomato sauce along with the enchilada sauce so they aren't too spicy for my boys (and they don't end up too bland for the adults). My older son is usually my "cheese man" and he'll sprinkle the shredded cheese into the tortillas before I roll them up.

Biscochitos: These are another popular Christmas treat. Cookies always provide lots of opportunity for kids to help out, from putting iningredients, to mixing, to putting the dough on the cookie sheets.
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Nutrition Workarounds: If He Won't Eat Anything Green or Orange, Try These Tricks

by Alison

April 20, 2009

It seems like my four-year-old woke up one morning and decided that he suddenly didn't like vegetables. He had always been such a great eater, so what to do now?

The first thing I tried was a guessing game of sorts. He closed his eyes and I gave him a bite of food and he had to guess what he was eating. It made me laugh because though he insisted he didn't like any vegetables, he couldn't always distinguish them from the other things on his plate, and he definitely couldn't tell a carrot from a pea. After a few rounds of the guessing game, he'd gladly finish the food on his plate, and for a few days after that, I could usually convince him that he really did like veggies!
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