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Someone PLEASE get Molly some glasses that fit!!!
Great session. Thanks
I would never eat food that a young child help prepare. They put their fingers in their noses and mouth. Yuck 🤢
Good morning 👍❤️🥀
Cheff Grace is a kid and has Down Syndrome, who’s motto is everyone can cook. She demonstrates cooking skills for kids on “Cheffing with Grace”
First thing my daughter did in the kitchen was to add salt! Start with pasta water then she refined her pinching technique.
Awesome ideas!!! ❤️
My 3 year old loves to help in the kitchen and we've been doing it for a while now. I've found baking…banana bread, muffins, cookies, and yeast breads…are easy to do together. He loves being in charge of the mixer now. You definitely need to just relax and embrace the mess. I also let him fill the blender for smoothies. He knows not to get his hand in it because of the blades and it's an awesome way to get him to eat spinach or kale which he'd never touch otherwise.
Lovely 👍
When "GoGurt" (sp?) packages were so popular and I was a single mom, used to make my own. Put some yogurt in a snack-size zip bag, and cut the corner. They loved it.
Also makes great popsicles. Mix w fresh mashed fruit in a bowl and pour into the popsicle forms. Freeze.
Pour into an icecube tray and freeze. Wait until semi-solidified, insert some popsicle sticks and keep freezing. A dozen mini popsicle sticks at a time.
General rule of thumb? Depends whether they have molars in.
If no teeth, purees and/or liquid type food is great.
Small soft pieces if only front teeth in, creamed corn, mashed soup, diced pasta, semi-soft foods in small bites, etc.
Molars in? Small pieces, smaller than their pinkie finger in diameter.
My mom had 5 kids, 14 years apart youngest to oldest.
She would make "Micky Mouse" or "Snowman" pancakes on the electric griddle and we would decorate them w raisins or berries. Did the same for my son when he was in elem school (with or without his buddies on a sleep-over).
Being a boy, in 4th grade, I knew that he would be playing w knives w his friends when I popped out for a quick errand, soooo…
Bought a step stool for him, put down a damp/wet towel to keep the cutting board from sliding (and explained why, had him try to move it when it was dry, then wet), got the largest potatoes I could find, sliced them thinly, and handed him a paring knife, taught him how to hand a knife to someone just like scissors, except to keep your fingers tucked away from the sharp edge of the blade, handle extended to the recipient.
Took his hands in mine, and made/cut out a snowman w the tip of the blade down, Micky mouse, sprinkle on some salt and pepper, then fried them in a skillet.
While those were cooking, did a few more, did it a few days in a row, then stood back and let him do it by himself, watching him.
So funny… as he grew up/older, throughout grade school, Jr. and Sr. High, I started a knife collection for him. Decorated pocket knives, swords, daggers, Samuri and Katana swords, 4 foot blades, and he has tremendous standards of knife safety to this day. We'd be at a flea market or in a store, and he'd text me because in our State you have to be over 18 to buy even a small pocket knife.
He had 42 knives and swords by his 18th bday., but was so funny. He'd text me from a few aisles over: Mom, there's a knife over her that I want to look at, like he didn't already have a full collection of his own. We used to give each other "that" look as I approached the show case.
Used to take some turkey dogs, cut them into julienne (choking hazard when cut into rounds!) then larger french fry sized, add a little teriyaki or BBQ sauce and saute them when he was in his highchair, and serve them w red beans, a few corn kernels on the highchair tray. Toss the rest in the fridge and the freezer for future quick meals/snacks.
Have the best "most embarrassing photo" that I call Mustard Face… the dipping sauce. Hehehe… Future blackmail material? 😉 Yup!
Boys will eat just about anything.
Girls? Not so much.
Teenagers will eat you out of house and home, especially the male kind. 🤣 Guaranteed.
My kitchen cure? Make a recipe and triple the batch.
1 for now.
1 for later in the fridge.
1 for the freezer.
Works every time.
Stay safe, everyone… ❤
My two oldest daughters could cook a full holiday meal at 10, including some deserts.
The fish sticks taco idea is genius! I especially like it because my husband is allergic to seafood but I love it. With this idea I could totally make the same thing with chicken tenders for him and fish sticks for me!
I like these ladies! Anybody who can cook for that kind of age range is a pro. Thanks, ladies!
Wait until they become teenagers.
A peanut butter and jelly 🥪 is also a good option.
Will you please test immersion blenders?!?!?!????
Love these two beautiful ladies! Thanks for sharing!
So how do they choose which cooks are going to do a cooking segment an it seems its only a certain few that do them, they need more in the rotation.