Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Ideas for Kids Cooking

Fruit Day
1. cooking fruit
Fruit, lemons, sugar, stove top, jam jars (collect old glass containers)
Homemade stove top strawberry jam with fruit about to go off. Keeps in fridge for one month and put it with peanut or almond butter on crackers or bread as a snack or sandwich.
2. Smoothies with frozen fruit
Blender needed
3. Fruit with yogurt and crunchy something
4. Fruit salad with a honey lime dressing from Aunt Kathy
5. Banana and nut butter wraps as snacks

Advanced: sweet pepper jam, goat cheese, and english muffins
Canning: need green apple or pectin powder with fruit and new jars

Salad Day
1. dressings: olive oil plus acid plus salt/pepper and fun extras
2. types of greens: try and dip in dressings
3. putting it together as a meal: add proteins
4. ramekins with lots of different things to put together as you like

Advanced
fancy dressings with cooked bacon...

Dessert Day
Ovens
1. Tart with the melted butter in the tart pan, bake
Add in a filling that is easy like chocolate pudding and top with whipping cream

Or
free form dough, add stone fruit, blueberries, etc bake, apples would be good
No Oven
ice cream balls: crush stuff with pastry cutter and roll ice cream over it with whipping cream

Advanced Desserts: make caramel or make meringue

Snack Day
1. healthy bars that need no baking, processor is needed
2. toasts with toppings
3. guac: easy and add salsa
4. cream cheese and olives in a tortilla/banana and peanut butter wrap

Meals Day
1. MacNCheese, need 2 burners and boiling water is dangerous...
2. Chicken dredged in flour/s/p and fried quickly with sauces to dip into maybe an easy homemade BBQ *stove top for sauce and for chicken cooking
3. stovetop chili (veg)
4. bowls/tacos/burritos and things that are choice based... put it together as you like!
5. puff pastry pizzas

Soup Day
1. basic guidelines with a hand blender to finish it off
tortilla soup, cheese, crushed chips, made with red peppers and canned tomatoes and seasonings...
2. pumpkins in winter
3. broccoli in summer

Toppings for soups in ramekins

Baking Day
1. carrot muffins
2. pillsbury pizzas







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