Cooking with Kids: Fun, Easy, Approachable Recipes to Help Teach Kids How to Cook by Brianne Grajkowski
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Web ID: 15086991Super fun cookbook for the whole family!
Multi-talented and popular food and lifestyle blogger Grajkowski cooks with her kids and shares the recipes with us. Cooking like many hobbies makes learning fun for kids. It teaches them important skills such as reading, maths, while having quality time and best of all the skill to eat healthy meals from a young age. The curated recipes with kids in mind encourages their creativity, boosting their confidence and promoting independence. It comes replete with cautionary notes and advice when cooking with children, a recipe conversion chart, a supervision icon gauge and gorgeous photographs of the meals and of the kids prepping the different recipes. She goes to considerable length with her advice on how to make it a pleasant experience. A first timer will soon gain confidence to involve their kids in cooking. My mouth was watering as I leafed through the book. Starting with drinks to breakfast ideas and then onto lunch, snacks and sides, main meals and finally treats the book covers it all. One can easily plan a whole day’s menu using it. I had not considered adding spinach with my berries in a smoothie before. Delish. The tropical notes of some of the recipes transported me to an exotic place. I do however deplore sugar being used in many of the recipes. A diabetic would need to use a sugar alternative or like me the sweetness in the fruit could suffice. The Fizz was gorgeous, what a fantastic combo. And then onto breads, moreish Nutella pancakes, a humble scrambled eggs given a new twist. It also introduces many healthy and uncommon ingredients. One is easily eating the rainbow. The Hawaiian waffles with their toppings is easily one of my favourites. There’s also burritos, tacos, pizzas, sliders, soups yep quite an international menu. Another plus is introducing kids to healthy snacks like banana bites. Carrot chips even bruschetta. I didn’t care for Spam Musubi as I don’t like spam and could not think of a suitable replacement for it. Just ham maybe? Though these recipes are simplified for kids their benchmark is quite high. Newbie cooks could easily wow their friends. Equally one could easily plan a party or buffet menu. It had some great ways to spice up ones brek too mmm…. even if only at the weekend. Though a cook myself, I do like to have it easy sometimes, well most of the times. Grajkowski's book ticks all the boxes for me. Thank you. I’m definitely going to have a blast with this super fun book with or without kids.
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Tasty Treat
I went through the book with my nephew and we chose three different recipes to try out for the day. We started with the Scrambled Egg Bar and had a good time choosing toppings and figuring out different combinations to find our personal favorites. At lunch we made the Roll-Ups which were simple and easy to make not to mention tasty. At supper time we decided on the Chili and it was a hit when it was finished. There were tons of recipes to choose from and quite a few things that my nephew loves but the recipes were different from what he has had. We look forward to coming back to this book time again so we can try out more simple and fun recipes like the fresh Dill Pickls, a favorite of.both of ours. This was a wonderfully put together cookbook and I had a blast making several recipes with my nephew.
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Highly Recommend
This book is fantastic treasure! Although this is suppose about how to teach kids about basic cooking and do this life skill alongside with them, I found this book is useful as well for my self and other beginner in cooking journey. Being grow up not meaning you already good at cooking right? The preparation explanation is written in simple and easy to understand. It will help readers to learn right tools and measurement. And the recipes.. oh my it is mouthwatering. I saw all of it written in simple step by step with inspiring illustrations. I found this one is very good and encouraging. Would love to recommend it to friends and trying some or all recipes by my self.
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