Comments on: Cooking Up Special Memories

By: recipes

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By: magpie

magpie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:40:49 +0000

We try to involve our five year old in cooking as much as possible. Sometimes it’s helping to make a batch of cookies, sometimes it’s stirring the pancake batter, sometimes it’s shaking the omelet pan. Check the video in this post - she was about 4 1/2 at the time: http://www.magpiemusing.com/2008/04/three-meals.html

I also signed her up for an afterschool cooking class - so far they’ve made monkey bread, french toast cheese sandwiches, lasagne and brownies. Everything comes home ready to be cooked. It’s kind of dumb cooking, but she’s participating.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:58:27 +0000

We’ve recently discovered that Cordy loves to cook and bake - making me wonder what throwback recessive gene muscled out my undomestic genes. So now we use baking as a reward - if she does something good, we celebrate by baking.

Right now we’re using this idea for potty training. If she stays dry all day, she gets to bake a treat. She adds some of the ingredients, stirs, and sets the timer on the oven. Who knew that making food could be used as a reward?

(And it’s mostly my husband who helps with the baking. I oversee and offer support - you really don’t want me near an oven.)

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:53:50 +0000

Since I am currently baking my kid (not really…dude I’m just pregnant) I’ll tell you my favorite memory as a kid in the kitchen.

When I was younger my cousins and I got off the bus every day at my grandma’s house. Once or twice a week we would make a huge batch of choc. chip cookies from scratch. As the oldest grandkid I got to do more and help direct the traffic of the younger kids. It made me feel like such a grown-up. We all had a three cookie allotment for after-school and on the baking days I always took my cookies from the batter dish, before the choc chips were added. To this day there is nothing I love more than choc. chip cookie batter without the choc. chips.

By: jen

jen — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:48:58 +0000

Our daughter is still young, just turned two, but I was burning more dinners by not getting her involved. I would have to try to cook and bake while she was crying at my feet. So now she sits with a bowl of frozen peas which she eats like popcorn, and a small bowl for her with a mini wisk and she will cook dinner along side of me. She’s also a really good taste tester. :)

By: Mary-LUE

Mary-LUE — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:48:26 +0000

Banana Bread… in the Crock Pot. For some reason, the fact that we make it in the slow cooker makes this some sort of life altering experience for my daughter. It is very yummy. No nuts though. My daughter does not do nuts in her banana bread.

I am sure that part of the joy she gets from it is that we are doing it together. I’m not much of a kitchen person usually.

By: creative type dad

creative type dad — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:26:32 +0000

home made Pizza on Thursday nights — is my answer to all of the questions.

And now you’ve got me thinking about bacon!

By: diana

diana — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:55:04 +0000

Sorry - I don’t have kids and therefore no kid related food stories. I do, however, have the best way to make crispy bacon. Place bacon on a cookie sheet or sheet pan lined with parchment paper and bake at 350 for about 7 to 10 minutes (I gauge by smell). Easy clean up and perfect bacon - the perfect food.

By: cIII

cIII — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:15:37 +0000

1. It was The Great Smoothie debocal of ‘08. Apparently, when you add a handful of frozen blueberries to a Banana/Pineapple smoothie, it will smell and taste like Play-Doh.

More refreshing than you might think.

2. The Big One (7 yr.) cracks eggs whenever eggs need crackin’. That’s her job. Have an egg that needs cracking? Call 1-800-the goat. She also breads a mean Chicken Cutlet.

3. Pasta Carbonara……aka: Snail Pasta.

4. It was The Great Pizza Dough Mishap of ‘07. Let’s just say that if you let your 6 year old try and mix the water/yeast with the “dry” ingredients when utilizing the old fashioned “well method”, well, you had better have a Mop on standby.

5.Stories. We tell stories. The more outlandish and ridiculous the better. Sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes, stuff comes out my nose.

By: anant verma

anant verma — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:06:01 +0000

you write really well.