8 tips for cooking with kids
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Cooking with kids is worth the time and mess, and even the odd inedible dish. Along with learning skills like chopping, they’re also honing their reading, math, science and problem solving. Here’s how to get your little sous-chef started.
1. Pick a project
Set aside time on a weekend (do not attempt this on a Tuesday night), and tackle a dish together: Browse cookbooks, shop for ingredients and see it through all the way to plating, which engages their artistic side.
2. Don?t hover
Fight the urge to follow your kids around with a cloth, and try not to take over when the quinoa spills. Freedom will make them feel competent and confident. (Remember: To make an omelette, you?ve got to break some eggs. Things will get messy.) 3. Give them power
How should we top the pizza" What should we fill the burrito with" Is there a pasta shape that works best with this kind of sauce" Let kids call the shots. And enjoy the occasional ?avant-garde? creation.
4. Start with breakfast
Spend a lazy Sunday morning making the easiest meal of the day: Eggs any style, pancakes or waffles, fruit salad and smoothies.
5. Play with dough
Put her mad Play-Doh skills to good use. Bake bread, twist up pretzels or try something new to you, like naan or English muffins.
6. Engage their senses
Handing her a wooden spoon isn?t the only way to get her cooking. Explore food together: Listen to the sound of bacon frying or a bottle of fizzy wat...
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