Family Food for Moms Podcast I Inspiration for Family Cooking and Dining I How to Enjoy Special Meals Together
Hi friends! I’m Karyn and this is the Family Food for Moms podcast. We’re talking about inspiration for family cooking and dining. Do you ever feel overwhelmed or discouraged as a Mom trying to feed your family healthy meals. Would you like to be inspired in the kitchen. Would you like your mealtimes to be full of joy, fun and healthy delicious food. Come hang out with me on the Family Food Podcast so I can inspire you to bring the purpose and inspiration back into your family meals. We’ll learn about food from our grandmother’s ways of cooking, from other cultures and from ancient traditions. And in the process, we’ll make the family table a special place that you and your children will remember forever. I help Moms feed their families nourishing, delicious food, find purpose in their cooking, learn from past generations and other cultures; and celebrate special meals together through practical advice, tips, inspiration and encouragement.
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Karyn here from the Family Food for Moms podcast. I just wanted to let you know that I've decided to take a break for three months from the podcast, not publishing any episodes for May, June, and July. Then I will be back the very beginning of August.
I so love doing this podcast and talking about food and dining with you!. I love thinking about celebrating with your family, about date nights, about learning new cooking skills, an...
Today we're going to talk about food from Germany - what we can be inspired by and what we can learn from German food and cooking.
German food is hearty, it's comforting, and it's built around simple, high-quality ingredients. It's designed to keep you full, satisfied, and comforted in the colder climate.
Today I want to talk about desserts, and how it's not necessarily bad to have dessert, even if you have it quite regularly. I was recently talking to my mom-in-law who's visiting from Belgium, and she was telling us how in Belgium people often eat dessert every night.
Most nights they have a three-course dinner, usually starting with soup, then having the main, and then a dessert. It's expected that there's dessert every night. I...
Today we're going to be talking about cooking in sauce.
Instead of making a sauce separately and then adding it later - which can be delicious, cooking in sauces is really going to enhance the meat or vegetable that you're busy cooking. I wanted to talk about cooking in sources rather than adding them at the end.
It’s one of the easiest ways to make your food deeply flavorful, juicy, and hard to mess up. It's how many of the wor...
Today we’re going to talk about celebrating life - the small things in life, and not having to wait for the occasions. Celebration meals are always special and fun for a family, and they don't need a calendar event to happen. We can make them meaningful by celebrating the small things, and just celebrating life - being together and enjoying each other. Some of the best celebrations come from ordinary days when you decide to do som...
This is part two of How to Cook Meat Well which is part of the series about basic cooking skills. Last time we talked about techniques that help you to make your lamb and beef tasty, tender, and juicy.
Today we’re going to talk about cooking chicken, fish, and other items in a way that's convenient, easy, and ends up delicious.
Today we're going to be talking about cooking meat - knowing how to cook it, which kitchen appliances to use, how to make sure it's not dry, but nice and moist, how to not overcook your meat, how to prepare it for cooking, et cetera.
So, let's start with some techniques that make all the difference. They seem like small things that wouldn't actually matter, but they really do make a huge difference in making your meat tasty, and m...
Today we're going to talk more about hospitality.
Last time we talked about how it's important to be present, and not have it be stressful, but to enjoy the time with your guests. We said that you should have plans for what kind of meals you could make so that it's not stressful. You can plan a lot in advance.
We talked about having laughter and warmth, helping people feel welcome, involving your children in the decorating and th...
I'm going to do two shorter episodes this week about hospitality. The first one will be tips about hospitality - what can make it easier for you, and the second one will be ideas that you can use for your meals when you have guests over. It’s always a good idea to have meals planned in advance, and we'll talk more about that in the next episode.
So, let’s talk about hospitality. It always works out a lot better than we expect, doe...
Today I want to talk about an unusual topic - how we can be inspired by meals in the Enid Blyton Adventure Books from the 1940s. She's the author of Famous Five. I’ve mentioned this briefly before in the episode on children's literature - how we can be inspired by what they ate. I've always been particularly fascinated by the food in the Enid Blyton books - the way they have the meals and what they eat, and I wanted to talk a bit m...
Last week, we spoke about how to season your food amazingly, using spices and herbs, acid and citrus, and other flavors that you can add to make it delicious.
Today, we’re going to do a spices and herbs guide - a guide to which herbs and spices are good, which ones are best to have in your kitchen, and what to do with them.
We’ll also talk about which spices to use on which proteins, vegetables, or whatever else you're cooking.
...Lately we've been thinking about the best ways to help our health. Some of our family have had a little bit of eczema, and some other less obvious symptoms. I was looking at an Instagram reel about the healthiest food on the planet for people. It said it was human breast milk - obviously for when people are babies.
Then the things that mirror that the most in terms of their benefits and nutrients, et cetera, are fermented foods. ...
Today we're going to talk about seasoning. This is part of our series about skills that we should all learn in order to become better cooks. We’ll be talking about how to season different kinds of food, how to understand seasoning, and how to get the best results.
Understanding seasoning means knowing how to effectively use salt, spices, herbs, etc in your cooking; understanding the role of saltiness, fat, and acidity like citrus;...
Last time we talked about the new series that we're starting - cooking skills we should master for home cooking. When we've mastered these basic skills, it’ll make our general cooking much easier, more effective, and tastier. Last time was the introduction, and I went through all the things we're going to cover, though not necessarily in that order.
Today, we’re going to talk about heat control. I think that's one of the most valu...
Today we're going to be starting a series on basic cooking skills that we should all master.
We’re going to do a number of episodes on this, and today I'm going to give you a bit of an introduction to what kind of things we’re going to talk about.
It's easy to feel nervous when attempting new things in the kitchen - new proteins or vegetables you haven't cooked before, new cooking methods, or using kitchen tools for the first ti...
Note: Only one episode this week as we have a CRAZY amount of stuff going on - I'll be back next Monday. I appreciate all my loyal listeners!
Today I want to talk about what we've lost from food cooking and nutrition since the 1900s. Back then, food was a lot more nutritious, home cooked meals were much more common, and there was much less refinement and processing. My middle daughter has been doing some homemaking reading and stu...
In Episode 113, we talked about a meal planning method that our family's been using, which is based on who's cooking each night and what dishes they know how to cook. We discuss what our older children enjoy cooking, and then we plan together based on that.
Today, I want to talk about a meal planning method based on themes. You set a theme for each evening; each day of the week, and then you do your planning based on that. For exa...
(Somehow this didn't get published yesterday.. but here it is :) Hope you enjoy!
Today we're going to talk about how we break our meals into courses without making extra work for ourselves.
I find that eating meals in courses helps all of us to slow down and give our full attention to the dinner meal - to be fully present and to enjoy chatting with each other. It also helps the cooking to not be too hectic because things can be p...
Today I want to talk about what we've been eating lately, a bit about our current menu planning method and how we decide what meals to have each week. We've been trying to involve the kids in cooking, and to be more organized and orderly in the way we plan our meals.
At the beginning of the year, I made a master plan for our meals, and now each week we take that and set up our weekly meal plan from it. Let's chat about it!
Today we're going to be talking about food from the Caribbean. What’s Caribbean comfort food? What can we learn from Caribbean cuisine? I find it quite fascinating what they eat out there.
They have some things that are quite unusual, and some things that are perhaps familiar, but it’s definitely different to living on the mainland.
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