Showing posts with label happy cooking with kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy cooking with kids. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Year of the Dragon Coloring Fun...

Here's a great link for a coloring sheet to celebrate Chinese New Year! It dovetails right into the kids learning about the history of the Year of the Dragon and kinda brings it to life for them to color it!

Now let's head for the kitchen and stir up a couple really simple recipes to add to the learning and celebration of the Year of the Dragon!

Happy Cooking with Kids,
Jan McCracken, Culinary Coach

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Easy Cranberry Sauce



We can’t have Thanksgiving without Cranberry Sauce! 
Oh my…

I have a super easy recipe but it uses canned whole cranberries and I’d prefer that the kids experience the “real thing”… So here we go, starting from scratch with a real bag of cranberries!

Here’s what you’ll need:
1 pound bag of fresh cranberries
2 cups water
2 cups sugar

The kids can prepare this one by themselves with an adult helper doing the cooking and stirring on the stove.

First rinse the cranberries and drain in a colander. Look to see if there are any bad berries and toss them.

Put the water and the sugar into a heavy bottom saucepan. Have an adult put the pan on the stove and bring the mixture to a boil. Add the cranberries and cook until tender.

Sit aside to cool and then put in a bowl and refrigerate until serving time.

Happy Cooking with Kids,
Jan McCracken, Culinary Coach