Yes, I do ask him what he wants to make. This week-end we are going to try oven-baked fried chicken, I think. Chicken wings are a very good idea! Perhaps we can make that this Wednesday when I stay over at their house. Or a broccoli stir-fry. He doesn't like many vegetables, but he does like spinach and broccoli! What I can't figure out is how this little decides what he wants to eat. Coconut rice is a no-no, but crocodile is. Hmm!
Kiddo didn't have to be taken to the kitchen. Last year we spent some time together, living in an apartment - much smaller space than what he's used to. I was the one cooking, and he started to watch me. At times, he'd accompany me to the supermarket. Or he'd help me plan the menu for the week. One day he asked whether I'd like him to make me a turkey sandwich... and he made a very good one. And that's how we started, really. I bought him a children's cookbook, and he'll sometimes take it with him to his room to read the recipes. One of his favourite role-playing games last year was to play restaurant :-)
My youngest brother loved (still loves?) to help my stepmom and anyone else cook. He even entered some jam he made into the county fair one year. I think he was 8 then. The judges asked him if he helped his mom make it..and my stepmom was quite adamant about them knowing he made it with only a tiny bit of her help..the stove is dangerous and hot after all.
I can't wait to have kids of my own and teach them the joy of cooking and baking!
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If only my parents had thought of getting me a Betty Crocker cookbook like yours! I baked when I was child, and used my mother's cookbook (name of which I have forgotten. It in their library somewhere). I also grew up watching Graham Kerr since we were in Canada at that time, and my mom had some of his cookbooks, too.
I can really see you cooking and baking with your kids, Heather.
I don't know who has more pleasure during these cooking sessions, my nephew or me. We both have a lot of fun and for me that's so important. I don't want him growing up thinking that coking is a chore, or is something difficult. Cooking if fun, insteresting and at the end of it you get to eat! Yum!
Kudos for taking kiddo's to the kitchen!
Yes, I do ask him what he wants to make. This week-end we are going to try oven-baked fried chicken, I think. Chicken wings are a very good idea! Perhaps we can make that this Wednesday when I stay over at their house. Or a broccoli stir-fry. He doesn't like many vegetables, but he does like spinach and broccoli! What I can't figure out is how this little decides what he wants to eat. Coconut rice is a no-no, but crocodile is. Hmm!
Kiddo didn't have to be taken to the kitchen. Last year we spent some time together, living in an apartment - much smaller space than what he's used to. I was the one cooking, and he started to watch me. At times, he'd accompany me to the supermarket. Or he'd help me plan the menu for the week. One day he asked whether I'd like him to make me a turkey sandwich... and he made a very good one. And that's how we started, really. I bought him a children's cookbook, and he'll sometimes take it with him to his room to read the recipes. One of his favourite role-playing games last year was to play restaurant :-)
Your grandson is too cute at his toy kitchen!
You are gonna laugh, but MY introduction to cooking was the Betty Crocker Cooking for Boys and Girls recipe books that my grandmother bought for me.
My youngest brother loved (still loves?) to help my stepmom and anyone else cook. He even entered some jam he made into the county fair one year. I think he was 8 then. The judges asked him if he helped his mom make it..and my stepmom was quite adamant about them knowing he made it with only a tiny bit of her help..the stove is dangerous and hot after all.
I can't wait to have kids of my own and teach them the joy of cooking and baking!
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"#AF7817" dark goldenrod - "#667C26" dark olive green
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If only my parents had thought of getting me a Betty Crocker cookbook like yours! I baked when I was child, and used my mother's cookbook (name of which I have forgotten. It in their library somewhere). I also grew up watching Graham Kerr since we were in Canada at that time, and my mom had some of his cookbooks, too.
I can really see you cooking and baking with your kids, Heather.
I don't know who has more pleasure during these cooking sessions, my nephew or me. We both have a lot of fun and for me that's so important. I don't want him growing up thinking that coking is a chore, or is something difficult. Cooking if fun, insteresting and at the end of it you get to eat! Yum!
I agree that cooking should be fun.. along with reading. :)
Although, sometimes when I'm tired and just don't want to do anything..cooking does seem like a chore. :)
It is so great you two have fun.. I hope it continues for a long time to come!
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Man can live about forty days without food,
about three days without water,
about eight minutes without air...
but only for one second without hope.
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I so love Graham Kerr!