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Last Updated: Apr 28th, 2010 - 22:06:40 |
Children in the Kitchen
By Christine Steendahl
Oct 30, 2008, 16:04
Getting kids cooking in the kitchen.
Get kids involved in the kitchen especially when it comes to cooking healthy recipes. Once you get your kids in the kitchen helping you prepare healthy food, it is almost guaranteed that they will devour what they help prepare.
Children of all ages can be brought into the kitchen to help with cooking a meal.
Even when they are still too young to talk, allowing them to get close enough to the cooking action, they appreciate the excitement of dinner preparation.
You can entertain and wow you kids by having them help you prepare the family meals.
We sometimes forget how vital time is with our kids. They love listening to you tell them about the time you put peas in your socks so you would not have to consume them.
Relating funny stories and explaining nutritional values during meal time will make an indelible impression on your kids. While you delight them with your wit, give them bits of food to sample.
Let them wash and chop veggies. The time spent making food at an early age will benefit the whole family.
1)If kids are of the age where they have developed their motor skills, they will be willing to run the vegetable slicer or cut the tops off the carrots for you.
2)Allow the kids combine together the dry ingredients for muffins, cupcakes, etc.
Let the little ones beat the egg mixture and mix it together. They can also spoon the batter into the pan.
Once the meal is done, they will devour it and brag to the other members of the family about their accomplishment.
Allowing little ones to assist in the kitchen, gives them a sense of accomplishment. In some sense they feel more in control over the foods they consume. Feeling more in control, little ones will devour what they help to prepare.
A favorite family dish is veggies with pasta. The kids can cut up the veggies, slice up the sprigs of dill, and help mix the pot with your supervision.
Vegetables with Pasta
This dish is a favorite little one friendly tasty recipe. It provides some family time in the kitchen and gets kids to consume their veggies.
Although this pasta recipe started as only pasta and carrots that cook at the same rate, you might want to test the cooking time for the other veggies that we added. Some alternatives on the recipe may include different rates of cooking for other veggies like broccoli, snow peas, sugar snaps, etc. separately, and then combine with pasta after
both are cooked.
Ingredients:
*8 ounces of pasta
*One 10- ounce package of pre-peeled baby carrots
*2- small zucchinis cut up into bite sized pieces
*1 cup of fresh broccoli tops
*3 sprigs fresh dill
*2 tablespoons of unsalted butter
*Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions:
1. Fill a large pot 2/3 full with water and set over high heat to boil.
2) Place the carrots, zucchini, and broccoli and pasta in a plastic pitcher.
3) When the water boils transfer the pasta carrots, zucchini and broccoli to the pot
4). Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon, approximately 8 minutes.
5) Test the pasta - it should be slightly chewy but not hard or stiff,
the vegetables & carrots will be done also.
6) Drain the combination into a colander--
While cooking let the kids use scissors to snip the fresh dill and set in a bowl.
7) Place the pasta and vegetables back in the pot,
8) Melt the butter over the pasta and vegetables
9) Add the dill.
10) Add salt and pepper to taste.
11) Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon and serve immediately.
Makes 4 servings
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