What if cooking with your little was the best part of your day?
“Cooking With Littles” is a video course that teaches you how to cook with your kids and actually enjoy it.
Including my son in the kitchen has taught him loop.
But it’s taught me so much more👇️
Some of the best memories of my life were made in a tiny off-grid shipping container kitchen — making soup, rolling meatballs, tasting sauces, and figuring out dinner together with little kids underfoot. I even free-birthed our daughter Willa on that very same kitchen floor, but I’ll save that story for the monthly zoom calls that come with this course!
Without proper running water or a dishwasher, I couldn’t really separate cooking from motherhood. So instead of pushing my son out of the kitchen, I started bringing him into the process. Slowly, cooking became less about getting dinner done and more about connection, creativity, play and belonging.
That’s how Cooking With Littles was born. I wanted to cook real food for my family, and I also didn’t want my son sitting in front of a screen, so I had no choice but to include him. And in the process, I developed an entire system that makes it possible to cook daily with my children with ease and grace.
It’s totally natural to want to cook in peace while listening to your favorite podcast. But learning to include your kids — one meal at a time — can shift your entire family story.
Listen, I get it, cooking with kids can be chaotic, messy, exhausting, and all of those things at the exact same time. It’s been hard because no one taught us how to make it easy, and that’s partly because this is a skill that was supposed to get passed on from one generation to the next. Before having kids, how many times did you cook in the kitchen with a 2 year old?
I was never taught how to cook, and certainly never taught how to cook with a child. I grew up with two working parents and survived on lunchables, pizza, and frozen chicken nuggets. There was no passing down of family recipes. In fact there was no cooking happening in my house at all that didn’t include a microwave or toaster oven. In middle school my routine would be walk home from school, make microwave popcorn, grab a diet coke, and turn on the food network. Rachel. Giada. Emrel. Ina. I’m not sure what pulled me to these chefs but I was hooked.
It would be many more years till I actually started cooking myself. My mom always joked that my rebellion in life would be turning my kitchen into the heart of my home, and she’s not wrong.
And I think somewhere along the way of teaching myself to cook, I realized something.
It wasn’t just the homemade food I was craving when I was watching those shows- it was everything else that went into it. The stories that the chefs shared of their grandma’s favorite meat balls, or their mom’s herb garden, or laughter around the table as they ate their aunt’s famous lasagna.
I knew that it was so much more than the food they were eating, it was the family culture that they were a part of that drew them back to the kitchen again and again.
So when Max was born, I found myself with an opportunity.
Not to recreate my childhood.
To rewrite it.
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community.”
— Michael Pollan
The Cooking With Littles Philosophy
Step 1. Find your “Why”
Step 2. Set your intention
Step 3. Create connection
Step 4. Ride the waves
Step 5. Reframe mess
Step 6. Make memories, not mini chefs.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin
I was never taught how to cook, and certainly never taught how to cook with a child. I grew up with two working parents and survived on lunchables, pizza, and frozen chicken nuggets. No regrets. My mom always joked that my rebellion in life would be turning my kitchen into the heart of my home, and she’s not wrong. To be in the kitchen with my littles feels less like a chore, and more like I’m rewriting my entire family history by breaking this cycle.
I’ll tell you mine.
Tired of dinner feeling like a chore? We show you how every ordinary task, from stirring soup to washing up, becomes a chance to spark joy and genuine connection with your kids.
Welcome The Mess
Life is not clean or perfect — neither is a kitchen with kids. Instead of fighting chaos, you’ll learn how to see messes as proof of a full life, not a failure. Embrace the spills, the flour clouds, and the wild laughter.
Rediscover Connection
Make Memories, Not Mini Chefs
“"The good life is being engaged in activities I care about with people I care about.”
— Robert Waldinger, Director, Harvard Study of Adult Development
Our core belief: children don’t need to perform or impress. They need you, present and inviting, ready to let everyday rituals become magic — together.
Why Cooking With Littles Works
(When Everything Else Feels Impossible)
Regulate, Don’t React
Our framework puts your nervous system first, so you know how to stay centered even when the kitchen gets wild. Your calmness sets the tone for your children.
Real Tools, Real Rhythms
Simple routines replace chaos. You get practical step-by-step tools to make even the busiest days feel doable and safe for kids and adults alike.
Cultivate Wonder
Small rituals like grinding spices or telling stories while cooking spark curiosity and belonging — transforming chores into treasured family culture.
Proof It Works — Even If It Feels Unlikely
