One of the best gifts parents can give ther kids is a love of good food and cooking. Sometimes, though , you can't do it on your own. That's where a new and fun cookbook comes in. Kids Can Cook Anything : The Complete How To Cookbook For Young Chefs with 70 Kid Tested Kid Approved Recipes (America's test Kitchen Publishers 2022).
This is not your typical kid's cookbook, Yes there are recipes for cupacakes and cookies but that's where it ends. It's an international mix of all sorts of recipes from Greek to Korean. This will give any young home chef a broader and worldier palate. where it does resemble a traditional children's cookbook is in the hwo too. This being from the great PBS TV show America's Test Kitchen. There are how to and hints. I commned the how topictures which show young cooks chopping and cutting with curved fingers to preven any serious wounds. There are pages about fresh herbs like basil and rosemary and how to use them as well as a step by step prep process (which includes tying back yoru hair!) Another plus is a pictorial guide to kitchen gadgets and apppliances. This is very handy and helps kids to differentiate what's what. There are videos that they or parents can key into their phones to show them how to test to see if butter has softened or how to properly cut avocados.THere's also secrets to kitchen success too, like allow yourself to make mistakes and read focused and stay focused.
Again the recipes are for the sophisticated palate.The sections are breakfast, snacks,lunch dinner, sides and sweets, Breakfast and the sweet section are the most traditional. Breakfast starts with yummy buttermilk pancakes and fancy scrambled eggs, fun treats that would be great in a weekend brunch. The sweets range from scratch chocolalte cookies to red velvet cupcakes with creamc cheese frosintg. There is the interesting English posset, a rich cooked cream dessert and a fruit crisp. Yet' it's the main and side dishes that are different. Kid home chefs can learn how to make the famed Greek chicken soup,avologemo. There is sizzling beef zinged up with sriracha and soy sauce , and stuffed into lettuce leaves. Quick pickled cucumbers are served with it for an Asian vibe.Little foodies will get a kick out fo the rosemary socca or chickpea flour pancakes, orginally from Genoa. It's a nice alternative to foccaccia, There's a yummy mashed potato gnocchi made with instant mased potatoes kids can whip up instead of spaghetti. They may like the ramen with kimchi recepe too along with the roasted carrots.
Kids Can Cook Anything: The Complete How To Cookbook For Young Chefs with 70 Kid Tested Approved Recipes is the perfect book for baby home chefs.It's the equivalent of lessons at a Cordon Bleu school. Add it to their library of important books.
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