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The Only Dutch Baby Pancake Recipe You Will Ever Actually Make

It was 6:13 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the middle of my kitchen wearing my husband Dave’s old college sweatshirt with a mysterious, crusty white stain on the left sleeve that I’m pretty sure was dried...

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The Truth About Beechnut Baby Food When You Have Twin Girls

It was 11:43 PM on a Tuesday. The NutriBullet was emitting a high-pitched scream usually reserved for dying spacecraft, and I was standing in my kitchen in nothing but my boxer shorts, covered in a fine, sticky mist of pureed...

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Banana pancakes for baby: Why my first twin batch was a disaster

The smoke alarm in our London flat has a very specific, piercing shriek that usually only makes an appearance when I attempt to be culinary before 7 am. Tuesday morning was no exception. I was standing in the kitchen, squinting...

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The Real Deal on Feeding Your Baby Spinach Without the Tears

My mom told me to boil it on the stove until it completely surrendered and turned into a gray mush. My mother-in-law, bless her heart, swore up and down that applying any heat at all destroys the vitamins and I...

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Sorting out the truth about cooking potatoes for your infant

My mother-in-law told me to boil them in full-fat milk and mash them with enough ghee to lubricate a small engine. She said it would make my son strong, calling him her little beta while ignoring my terrified first-time-mom face....

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Why Feeding A Baby Peach Slices Is A Messy Physics Experiment

I'm currently staring at an orange, sticky smear on our kitchen ceiling. I don't know the exact trajectory it took to get up there, but I know the source, and I'm honestly impressed by the velocity. My wife Sarah and...

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The Midnight Baby Broccoli Incident And How We Survived

2:14 AM. That’s exactly when the smell hit me. It wasn’t a dirty diaper, though heaven knows I checked with the flashlight on my phone while trying not to wake my husband. It was this creeping, sulfurous cloud rising from...

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How to cook baby bok choy so your infant actually swallows it

It's somehow already dinner time in Chicago. The radiator is hissing, the kitchen smells vaguely of sesame oil and parental desperation, and my toddler is methodically wiping a bright green leaf across her forehead like a damp washcloth. I'm staring...

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How are baby carrots made: The paranoid mom's guide

I was standing in my Chicago kitchen at two in the afternoon holding a plastic bag of orange nubs, just staring blindly at my phone. My six-month-old was sitting in the high chair, banging a silicone spoon against his tray,...

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