My daughter (almost eight) has gotten really super-interesed in cooking lately -- she insisted on making dinner "all by herself" last weekend, and she really did do most of it all by herself! I peeled and sliced the peaches, but she made a tomato salad, hamburgers, and peach-berry crisp with adult advice but no intervention. She can also fry an egg and make muffins from scratch, thanks to Mollie Katzen's Pretend soup.
She's ready to graduate from that book, but still needs more detail than you get from a grown-up book. I thought about getting Honest Pretzels -- Mollie Katzen's book for big kids -- but it woudl be nice to find something that's not vegetarian, because she likes meat!
I don't want anything where it's all mixing processed foods together -- no canned soup or cake mix. And it should include recipes using the stove and sharp knives, because she's ready for that and very careful.
Have any of you found a great cookbook for kids? Thanks!
She's ready to graduate from that book, but still needs more detail than you get from a grown-up book. I thought about getting Honest Pretzels -- Mollie Katzen's book for big kids -- but it woudl be nice to find something that's not vegetarian, because she likes meat!
I don't want anything where it's all mixing processed foods together -- no canned soup or cake mix. And it should include recipes using the stove and sharp knives, because she's ready for that and very careful.
Have any of you found a great cookbook for kids? Thanks!
, which includes a few meat dishes.
