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galleyslave
August 22, 2011
I LOVE all these ideas. I've always cooked with my children -- I have a picture of my son at age 2, dusted with flour, rolling out cookies with great concentration. The pair of them grew up cooking with me and with their dad (his specialty, aside from barbeque, was chocolate pancakes with chocolate chips). For years, we spitted a whole lamb in the back yard for Thanksgvings we did with friends. Now grown and on their own, they are both both really good cooks, and also know what healthy, delicious food tastes like.
Becky4T
August 21, 2011
Julia Child recommended cooking with children. Best bonding ever, especially with back to school jitters. Next month our local farm tour will be having lunch at our community center. The menu is locally grown beef,(roast beef sandwiches) chicken, (chicken salad on greens) and grilled cheese for the children . One parent asked for potato chips (of coarse) sooooo... we are slicing real potatoes (on a box grater) and each child will arrange paper thin slices onto a paper plate, sprayed with olive oil and baked in microwave oven for 4 min (depending on wattage of oven). They brown before your very eyes and sprinkled with seasalt they are truly the best potato chip I've ever had.
Edamamemonster
August 21, 2011
Sushi rolls are a lot of fun to make with kids. You just make the sushi rice; then, let them pick the fillings they want and then they can roll them using a sushi mat.
Fairmount_market
August 17, 2011
Making home made pasta with a hand rolling machine is a whole lot of fun to make with kids. They think it's a treat rather than a chore to do all that cranking, and then turning that dough into actual delicious noodles, almost instantaneously, is so rewarding.
amysarah
August 17, 2011
My daughter and I made countless batches of ricotta gnocchi. She's an artist and has always been great with her hands - her gnocchi were always far prettier than mine.
She was also way more patient with laying fruit slices in tarts in even concentric circles and icing black/white cookies (her favorites) without a marble-y area down the middle. I lied when I said I did it that way on purpose.
Another thing we made together from a young age was pot stickers - I'd make the filling, and she'd fill, fold, wet the edges and crimp them into crescents.
Wonderful memories.
She was also way more patient with laying fruit slices in tarts in even concentric circles and icing black/white cookies (her favorites) without a marble-y area down the middle. I lied when I said I did it that way on purpose.
Another thing we made together from a young age was pot stickers - I'd make the filling, and she'd fill, fold, wet the edges and crimp them into crescents.
Wonderful memories.
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