This is a great list, I just added a few books to my lust list. If I may self-promote for just a moment... I’m just across the river to the west in Skamokawa, but my book has been out barely a year.

Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids is designed to get families in the kitchen together, cooking healthful meals from real ingredients. Each recipe includes step-by-step color photos and nutritional information.

This makes me wonder if Costco has a bag of 25 microfiber towels at the ‘hospitality industry’ stores. enough for me and a few friends.

Mamster, look for a plastic dry-wall/putty knife next time you are in a place that sells such things. They come in all sorts of sizes and are dirt cheap. I have a dozen assorted ones that serve as bench scrapers, dough cutters, ‘knife’ for small kids, etc. You can drop them, toss them in the dishwasher, whatever and they never break. If they do, it’s another 89 cents.

I love that you are baking bread with your kids. It is one of the most magical things you can do in the kitchen and I am sure the alchemy will stick with them. Plus, those little hands! That is such a great shot.