[blindkid] easy recipes to have kids cook

Tue Jun 28 18:33:10 UTC 2011

We started with mashed potatoes.
Carol

At 08:51 AM 6/28/2011, you wrote:
>Thanks Brandy, my daughter does the basic kitchen help as her 
>friends do (or may be a bit more), she helps with baking, cracking 
>eggs, measuring, stirring, mixing, but I had not let her alone on 
>the stove, and she is apprehensive to be near it when things are 
>hot, and has not taken anything out of the oven. She has held her 
>hand on top of a pan until it heated, so she understands that 
>process, as with the oven. She clears the dishwasher whiningly. She 
>knows what a recipe is and knows how things come together in a 
>kitchen. She makes her own pop corn and pours her own juice or 
>water. But now that its summer I would like for her to make some 
>dinner, and have the time to teach her some recipes to make from 
>start to finish.
>
>
>I really appreciate your input, it is very insightful and are giving 
>some great ideas. I liked the web link for the recipes someone 
>shared yesterday.
>
>
>Thank you so much
>
>
>Heidi
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>From: Brandy W <branlw at sbcglobal.net>
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>Subject: Re: [blindkid] easy recipes to have kids cook
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>Hi, What kitchen experience does your daughter have? Start with basic things
>including: Can she spread something onto bread or toast? Can she measure
>simple ingreadence into a bowl? Can she use a knife to cut simple foods like
>a carrot into coins? Is she able to use the microwave? Has she stirred
>cooking food on the stove? Can she pore from 1 container to another? Can she
>crack an egg? Can she safely get something out of the oven?   Think what
>will my child need to cook any recipe she wishes not what recipes can she
>make. Does she understand that meals start with engreadence, and those
>things come together to make other things?
>
>Talk to her while you cook narrarating what you do and incorporate her when
>you can.
>
>Then find any kids cook book read her the helpful hints, and give her space
>to try. Remember that there isn't really a wrong or right way to do things,
>but as long as it is safe and gets the job done it is fine. I love to cook
>and would be happy to answer any questions about how I do this or that.
>
>It was making scrambled eggs as a child, pealing apples every holiday season
>with my grandmother, making that afternoon snack while I waited for my mom
>to get home Making my own toaster pastries packing my lunches for school,
>and poring the milk into my cereal, the life experiences of making the same
>meals at the same time or earlier than my peers that have helped me to
>become a pretty good and adequate cook when compared to my sighted friends.
>
>
>In about an hour last night I was able to cook for a family of 6 salmon
>cakes from scratch including the pan frying in oil, 2 types of veggies and
>rice along with the clean up with the exception of the dishes we ate from.
>But in this recipe I had to measure liquids and solids, follow directions,
>safly measure and use the small amount of oil, Flip the cakes,  safly open
>the pot from the rice and many more tiny skills. I encourage you to start
>with recipes that only involve 1 or no new skills as following the recipe is
>a skill in it's self.
>
>Some good first foods to cook are brownies from a box so you only need water
>and eggs or maybe oil which you can refridgerate so it can be felt easier,
>Mac and cheese,
>Casadillas,
>Fancier sandwiches like subs of some kind,
>Scrambled eggs,
>Baked frozen things,
>Many pastas,
>Little home made pizzas
>Fresh fruit or veggie salads,
>Tacos,
>And her own meal prep when others are making their own.
>
>Hope this helps some.
>
>There is a FB page called cooking with kids that is botha blog and website.
>
>Bran
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of hpscheffer at aol.com
>Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 5:17 PM
>To: blindkid at nfbnet.org
>Subject: [blindkid] easy recipes to have kids cook
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>
>Hi, I wanted to check and ask if any of you had suggestions of easy recipes
>to teach your kids to cook independently. My daughter is 12 and I would like
>for her to learn to prepare some meals, may be there is a link or a site for
>this?
>
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>
>Thank you so much,
>
>
>Heidi
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