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The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week "If you like someone breathing 2 inches from your face while throwing a wrench in anything you're trying to accomplish, parenting might be for you"

Got bees?

Free Bees: Virginia Is Giving Out Hives After A Particularly Bad Winter For Colonies Erratic weather and a rainy spring led to a loss of 60 percent of bee colonies in the commonwealth

An apple truck on every corner?!

30 million children rely on free school lunch. Where do they eat when school's out? In New York City, officials are getting creative to solve the "summer nutrition gap." Instead of coaxing kids back into school for meals, the thinking goes, meet them where they are.

Any parents of teens here? I wish *I* could go to this but may be a few, cough, decades past the target age.

Root to Rise Farm-based Leadership week for young women http://potomacvegetablefarms.com/r2rapplication

Slow start for local strawberries after our weird spring, but the pick-your-own farms are starting to open!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

Enjoyed this article, but also intrigued by her chicken & pea sheet pan supper recipe (or “tray-bake,” as she calls it.)

Nigella Lawson: Home Cooking Can Be a Feminist Act It used to be denigrated as “women’s work,” but it is creative and full of aesthetic pleasures.

Do your kids eat cauliflower rice? Do they know it's not actually rice? I was never a fan of tricking kids into thinking a food was something it wasn't, but I have made fried rice with rice *and* cauliflower. Food for thought from the USA Rice spokesperson:

“Is it hurting our reputation if you’re giving kids cauliflower rice and calling it fried rice—fried cauliflower rice—and kids don’t like it, and they have a negative connotation about rice?”

(Though I'd be more worried about them having a negative connotation about cauliflower. ;) )

Caul Me By Your Name: Is Cauliflower Rice Terrorizing the Rice Industry? A “malicious and nefarious” grain alternative has got millions of home cooks excited—and corporate flacks and lobbyists a little steamed.

Good eats and games for both the 7- and 11-year-old makes for a fun day-off outing.

Snow day! Here's a way back throwback .... with coconut "snowflake" cake & maple snow cream recipes. What's happening in your kitchen today?

Snowflake Coconut Cake with Maple Snow Cream What to make when you’ve been snowed in for days? Snow cake, of course! When I proposed baking a cake the boy first suggested chocolate. I talked him into a “snow” cake instead, a.k.a. coconut.