With eight children it is inevitable that they are all going to be involved in some type of activity or sport and that is definitely the case in this house hold of plenty! One plays Ball Hockey and has an agent, two others do fencing, one is in gymnastics, one is trampoline and tumbling and also has an agent, and my oldest one is on a competitive acrobatic gymnastics team and has an agent as well. Some days are so exhausting!
I have a rather unusual situation in that the hubby is never home so having time to focus on my family is very important to me, yet between practices, rehearsals, auditions, competitions, homework and 8 month old twins there simply isn’t enough hours in a day! We mama’s are so busy with everything else along with preparing meals we haven’t any time to connect with our family. On particularly busy evenings having a go to list of simple and delicious recipes allows me to spend less time in the kitchen on my own and more time with my family.
A great recipe that I found is Chef Boyardee’s “Chilli oni”. It’s heartiness, no preservatives, and convenience is something all moms can appreciate and kids love its great taste! Easy preparation allows me to assign some of my kiddies to help out. It gives them a sense of independence and provides me some quality time with them. Cooking with the kids is easy with Chef Boyardee!
Chili-oni
Serves: 4
Time to Prepare: approximately 20 minutes
Ingredients:
1 can (398 mL) Hunt’s® Original Diced Tomatoes
1 cup (250 mL) frozen corn
1 can (540 mL) drained kidney beans
2 tbsp (30 mL) chili powder or 1 package (39 g) chili seasoning mix
2 cans (425 g each) Chef Boyardee® Beefaroni
Grated tex mex cheese, for garnish
Directions:
Heat tomatoes, frozen corn and beans with seasoning.
Add Beefaroni and heat through.
Garnish with grated tex mex cheese
Why not give yourself a break one night this week and spend less time cooking on your own and more time cooking with the kids! For more great recipes visit Chef Boyardee’s facebook page.
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My nephew is too young to cook with me but I will love to cook healthy soups with him when he gets little older.
About once a month my boys and I have what we refer to as “Soup Sunday”. This is the day when we empty the fridge for the week ahead (yes, some HAS GOT TO go in the garbage!) and consider a new concoction for dinner that night. Our soups have contained the regular ingredients such as vegetables and pasta (and usually a meat that I have intentionally cooked the day before with plans for soup). But ocassionally we are caught off guard and the adventure begins. Some of our soups have included leftover lasagne, butter chicken, fried rice, and even peanut butter. My boys, aged 8 and 4, are keen to add just about anything on Soup Sunday, but I am careful to monitor ingredients and really do my best to make sure that whatever new brew we concoct is actually edible and nutritious. It’s a cooking adventure every time!
My daughter and I love to do our Christmas baking together – lemon squares, cookies, shortbread … mmmm!!!
I love to bake and do it nearly every day. When I have to make a cake for a special occassion I always have a few extra hands in the kitchen. I am confident that all three of my kids will be accomplished bakers when they leave home! I love the long talks over flour and chocolate chips….
I love having my kids help in the kitchen. There are good skills to learn and plus if they are baking it makes great photo opportunities for me.
My daughter and I spend every Sunday baking and cooking! We make the weeks ahead meals and what not but this is our fav time of year when we can bake lots of extra goodies 🙂
Most recently my daughter and I really enjoyed making a decorating dozens of cupcakes for my sister’s baby shower. Lots of fun.
My oldest son loves to pick recipes out of cook books. We then write up a shopping list together and he will help me prepare the dishes at home. Both kids are much more willing to try something new when they’ve chosen it themselves.
My favourite memory of cooking with my son is making muffins–wearing his own junior sized apron and a chefs hat that we got from taking a cooking class together–so cute!
Our Christmas eve tradition is to bake cookies for Santa> That would have to be my favorite baking memory
Fam memory is when my 2 older kids (2-4) helped me make salsa (a la Lonestar restaurant)….they were so excited to help mix and put into jars…they even took a nice pic with the finish products….it was so tasty! Mmmm
My daughter and 2 sons have always woke up early. So when they were toddlers we would get up at 530 and start making banana chocolate chip muffins. Every recipe we tried I wrote in the recipe book what time and who I made it with and the date. Now as I go back through those recipe books those comments with each recipe bring back vivid memories of finger licking and sweetness.
When my daughter was younger we would bake together and pretend that we were on a cooking show, talking to a pretend audience. That was a lot of fun.
I love cooking or baking with my kids. My daughter is now 11 and will make her brother and herself an after school snack. SHe has graduated from the microwave to the stove and I just love watching her explore and discover new ideas.
I first want to say… you have some seriously talented kids… you’re dealing with agents?! Hope your kids are able to support you one day with the success they’re showing now 🙂
Favourite memories in the kitchen… definitely the birthday and name day cakes! I have half the kids you do (four boy), so birthdays and name days (Greek tradition) are plentiful around here. We have had some very creatively decorated cakes around here and I enjoyed eating every single one of them… except for those cookie monster cupcakes, which dye your mouth blue… 🙂
My 10 yr old and I bake together all the time. Some of our best conversations have come from these baking moments. We have had various sensitive discussions on topics such as religion, homosexuality, acceptance, bullying in a relaxed non preachy way. At the same time its a time where we can just enjoy each others silly company and he learns a skill. Its great for his confidence as I have let him do more and more as he has gotten older. In fact he cracks an egg with far more skill than I ever will. I treasure these moments and hopefully so will he. Now as for cooking Jake and Dad bond over that as supposedly I have no talent in the cooking department : )
As part of his Red Star requirement with Cubs, my oldest son Benjamin had to plan, prepare and eat a meal. He needed to fulfill the guidelines set out in Canada’s Food Guide and here is what he came up with:
Orange Juice
Steak
White Rice
Peanuts
Cheese
He had so much fun helping and he especially enjoyed helping with the BBQ! It was great fun and the other kids wanted in on the action too. All of us gobbled it up so quickly. We added green beans for those who did not want to eat the peanuts and we sprinkled shredded cheese on the rice. Overall it was a great meal and a great time to spend with Benjamin. I think that we’re going to have to make this a weekly thing with the kiddies. They love to help in the kitchen!
I love making any kind of food with my kids. They all have to take turns putting in the ingrediants and they are very excited when their turn comes. Their favorite part is when we make shortbread cookies and they get to put icing and sprinkles on.
making gingerbread houses with my kids was one of our favourite times, from the making of the gingerbread to the decorating
I love baking with my children and over the years have so many fond memories. One year between all my daughter I do have three of them we did our Christmas baking which turned into more like sampling on their party. None of my recipes produced the number of cookies they were supposed to because my girls were eating the dough and mixtures before the cookies were baked or set.
Having livestock has always been a family chore and the kids know where our meat and eggs come from. The kids really enjoy the meat processing part of cooking for some reason, and have made the craziest marinades and sauces to compliment them. Now their big thing is to see how spicy they can make the meat! My gosh, bring on the Tums and Pepto Bismol – the kids are cooking again 🙂
my favorite memory of baking with my son is the time we baked cookies for his grandma for her birthday. we had so much fun and he had a blast decorating them all pretty for her. He was very proud of himself and the job that he did
You can count on my kids to want to “help” me out in the kitchen : ) If it involves mixing something, beating an egg or simply pouring water in a pot, they get so excited about it. It’s very cute. I keep telling them that I can’t wait until they are a bit older, and hopefully they’ll want to wash the dishes!
It is always fun to bake with my kids. They make a big mess, but the end result is always worth it!!
My favorite memory of ‘baking’ with my kids involves an Easy Bake Oven and a pretty ceramic tea set. We had a few lovely tea parties!
i love that when I cook with her she is so enthusatic and is willing to try anything. And when we bake wow, nothing like fighting over who gets to lick the bowl, haha.
Another baker weighing in here. I get such a kick out of baking with my 2 and a half year old son and four and a half year old daughter. My little guy proudly pulls all of the ingredients out of the cupboards and puts them on the island while his sister puts on her apron and chef’s hat. Those are the peaceful, happy moments. Many skirmishes ensue as they fight over who gets to pour and stir what. (Banana bread’s our favourite thing to make.) My favourite part? When my son tastes the batter and pronounces, “It’s very good.” (more tasting) “It’s very yummy.” (licks fingers) “It’s very tasty.” 🙂
I love cooking w/ my daughter. Last night, we made dumplings and it was very fun!
Unfortunately I really do not enjoy cooking – I am not very domestic at all!. What I make best are reservations!
But I do my best as my 5 year old boy loves to cook. We make very basic dishes that he can mostly do himself, like scrambled eggs, omelets, sandwiches and cookies. What we make together are memories and time spent together which we will always treasure. Nothing can beat that, despite my aversion to cooking.
This would be a wonderful prize to check out some new kid friendly (and mom) friendly recipes!
I’m not the greatest cook so that recipe for chef Boyardee Beefaroni is my kinda meal its our favourite!!
My favourite kid helped recipe was when we made home style mac N cheese. Kids just go crazy for that so for them to feel the pride that they helped cooked it with me was just great. I let them know how delicious it was and how proud I was of them for making it oh so cheesy. We cook lots of other things too but the easiest are always more fun and I always invite them to add a few ingredients to the mix. We just love adding red kidney beans to all the pasta dishes. It adds more fiber to the meal and makes us fill up faster.
My daughter and I have been cooking and baking together since she was a tot – she’s nearly 17 now (how did that happen?) In fact, this evening, she just asked me, “Mom, when can we make gingersnaps?” Hurray for PA Days – we can make them tomorrow!
One of the first things she learned to make was home-made pizzas: 1/2 a toasted bagel (otherwise they get too soggy), topped with tomato sauce, lots of oregano (she was a pro at sprinkling the oregano), and grated cheese, popped under the broiler until the cheese is melty.
My 7-year old helped make tacos tonight – she helped mix the cooked meat and cut the tomatoes and lettuce. It was so much fun – she even set the table without being asked!
I like taking time to teach my children how to cook different things, as they are now old enough to learn to cook… I feel like I am passing on the knowledge that my mother and grandmother passed on to me.
my 2 young kids and I love to bake. Each year we make a big batch of cookies for Santa and the kids get to decorate them with numerous types of sprinkles and all different colours of icing. We end up with masterpieces.
My daughter is always wanting to help! You should have seen her working so diligently to peel a hardboiled egg this morning. Love that she wants to be with me in the kitchen.
I love to prepare the meals with my daughers – they are learning so much as they help – they can now make their own grill cheese and salads on their own. They also know how to make pancakes from scratch and are working towards brownies!
Cooking with the kids is so much fun! Every Sunday we cook together our Sunday Brunch. Each child is responsible for one of their favorite breakfast items to prepare and cook under our parental guidance. I will add the amenities (like pancake syrup, bacon, sausages, toast, etc), then we have a feast buffet which lasts all day!
Cooking homemade pizzas with my eldest daughter helps with her ADHD aggression so that we all have a better week, and she comes up with some really different pizza ingredient suggestions.
My youngest son loves to bake, and he will experiment. One time, when he was 8, he tried to make a lemon bar surprise dessert for us, but mixed up baking soda for flour! Now he cooks much better ,and if he isn’t sure, he asks for the ingredients!
When my son was small,he would LOVE to help me make pizza! Whenever I said I was going to make pizza,he would come running,,”I wanna put the toppings on”..lol..Now that he is 12,I cant get him to help! He do make pancakes sometimes though and I am trying to teach him how to make a few other things as well!
My kid loves to help make panacakes. He stirs the batter with an attitude. He loves to help bake chocolate chip cookies, and puts all the ingredients in the bowl and mixes them up. He also helps cook rice by rinsing them and the pressing the button on the rice cooker. Such treasured moments.
I know now that my kids are getting older how much fun it was to cook and bake with them and my daughter who is off in college called me the other day to ask to make sure I get all the ingredients to bake shortbread cookies when she comes home for the Christmas Holidays next week so we can have our mother daughter baking time…Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all:))) barbara from Cambridge Ontario
Just this past weekend Patty, Taylor and I baked homemade Sugar Cookies; we
used many cutters such as bell, star, tree, stocking, Santa boot, etc. When cooled we had fun decorating them with icing and decorations(sprinkles, candies).
Taylor rolled out some dough and then let us take over to finish and she also cut
some cookie designs and decorated cookies.
An awesome time to reflect and chat.
Every Christmas my kids and I pick different cookie recipes then we spend time baking them. Then we hand them out for Christmas ! It is my favorite time.
One year, I asked my little one to wash the potatoes for me so that I could make mashed potatoes. I then ran up to take a quick shower. As I stepped out of the shower, I heard a knock on the door and my daughter told me they had finished, but that I forgot to tell them to use soap when “washing” the potatoes. It was okay though, because they thought of it and used the soap anyway. I came down to a kitchen sink overflowing with suds and some of the cleanest potatoes I have ever seen.
Making Chili-oni together would be a wonderful bonding experience between moms and kids.
When I cook with my kids, I love the sense of accomplishment it gives them when it’s ready.
I’m just getting into the process of baking with my girls. They are still young and get in the way more than help 🙂
I love cooking with my kids- my daughter age 10- just made a meal for all of us last week- mostly by herself- and she was so proud. I want my kids to be able to know their way around the kitchen so we try to cook together most weekends. My son likes to “create” things- so some of his food has special flavours that not all of us enjoy. Thanks
My daughters love being in the kitchen watching and doing what I’m doing but his one time it was my husband doing the cooking with my 3 yr. old and I was doing the watching. They were making homemade pizza and she was rolling the dough…Actually she “was rolling in the dough”….what a sight and I got it all on camera. Up to this day, I love looking at this.
My 2 girls LOVE to help in the kitchen, their fave things to do are usually the messy things- ie. egg cracking, rolling in flour. I always give them their fun time but ensure they are productive when they help. I enjoy hearing them say ” We made this together and its delicious!”
My son loves to bake with me and we have fun doing it every week. We love to make banana bread and he usually brings one of his stuffed animals along to “help” us out.
It is definitely when we do Christmas baking because we put Christmas music on and have such good times.
My favorite moments was always when my daughter and i did some baking – she really loved it and i did too – she is all grown up now and I too miss those simple days of baking fun
It was always great when my kids would make supper for me. It was usually something like Chef boyardee and a dessert. I miss those days – they were so cute waiting for me to tell them how great their meal was.
We love making cookies, spaghetti, chili and nachos!
My kids love to cook and bake with me, they like to stir mixtures in bowls, crack eggs, measure out sugar and flour, add chocolate chips to the batter (and sneak a few to eat as well), decorate sugar cookies and cupcakes with sprinkles, and taste everything as well! My favourite part is watching their little faces light up when they get to join in on the fun!
I love to bake. My husband and daughter love to cook. She has loved it since birth. (I think it was the 24/7 watching foodtv for the last 3 months of hospital bed rest during pregnancy.) In any case we make a great team and she is extremely creative and dead on with flavours, spices, textures! It’s quite amazing. We love the kitchen and spending the bonding time together as a family.
I used to bake bread with my kids & they loved it. They each got a small hunk of dough that they could shape into whatever they wanted & then we baked it along with the bread. They were so proud of ‘their ‘ baking & loved coming up with new shaped to bake.
Our family loves to make homemade dog biscuits at Christmas time. We got pretty good at it. We let the dogs do the taste test though.
I enjoy cooking with my daughters. My youngest loves to make a lot of different things such as soup and Icelandic dishes. She wants to do cooking almost every day. I think I might have a chief on my hands.
We love baking but I have to say that a memorable moment is making breakfast for my husband’s birthday! It has become a tradition and the kids make up the menu! Each year it is different! I let them do and only supervise.As well, I tape it all on camera for daddy to get as a present from them and it is hilarious!
My most memorable moments are when we make gingerbread cookies. I have many pictures of my children rolling the dough, cutting out the gingerbread men and of course decorating them!
The most memorable time I have had is baking with my 2 kids. My sister is a really exceptional baker and has a homebased side business. Ever since my little girl and son were old enough to hold a spoon, they would sit on my sister’s counter and help bake. Our most favourite are my nonna’s almond bigne, mostaccioli and Almond Anisette Biscotti. We also help her with making chocolate flowers for weddings and chocolate baby booties and favours for a baby shower. Issy’s most favourite are the cookie (rum) balls covered with chocolate. Alex likes to help with the christmas cookie baking.
Every year we have “Baking with Zia Pattie day”. My 2 sisters and I bring the nieces and nephews to my sister Pattie’s house. They first decorate her tree (plastic ornaments) and then learn a recipe that they each want (this year, my daughter wanted to learn how to bake Mint Shortbread, and my son wanted to learn how to make Rocky Road). We just had this and it was such a success.
Baking and cooking with kids is so much fun. It is also a way of carrying on family recipes and traditions. (One thing I still haven’t mastered is my nonna’s amazing meatballs. Everything is the same but something is missing – what is really funny is that my son (who never met her) has made those meatballs like nonna used to make.
My favourite time is the first chocolate cake my daughter and i made,including licking the bowl.
We had a cookie recipe that involved painting the cookies with food coloring. They really enjoyed that.
as soon as i start to do anything at the kitchen cupboard my granddaughter slides up a chair. we love baking together and especially baking different flavors of cupcakes and then decorating in all kinds of fun ways!! she is even really good about cleaning up the mess we make and she gets her pick as to whether she wants to wash or dry the dishes!!
The most memorable time in the kitchen was when I taught my stepson how to make chili. We made a connection that day.
We always spend a few days this time of year together making cookies and candies..kids love it
My kids were thrilled the first time they layered a lasagne and made garlic bread and a salad to go with it.
The most fun and satisfying time is baking. The delicious aroma when the cake is in the oven and the fresh treats afterwards make for a wonderful afternoon in the kitchen.
Every Monday after school, my kids and I make a ‘fancy’ dinner. We plan it, I ensure we have the proper ingredients and when I say ‘fancy’ it isn’t necessarily foie gras. “Fancy” according to my kids, is lots of garnishing, pretty plates, anything that makes the food appetizing for them. For example, yesterday we made chicken parmesan with bow tie pasta and a salad with cut up peppers in the shape of bow-ties, they cut out the mozzarella cheese for the chicken in bowtie shapes…you get the picture. We have a scrapbook of photos of their culinary creations and they LOVE poring over it.
Christmas cookies have always offered a mother lode of bonding time in our family. From measuring ingredients, mixing, dropping or rolling, and decorating…it’s an activity that everyone loves. And a tradition made more special as a prelude to the real show…Christmas!
I love cooking with kids. I always come away with some great ideas on what to do and what not to do with food. Kids are very creative!
My favorite memory of cooking with my family, was when my youngest daughter was about 18 months. I had prepared all the ingredients for Lasagna in the fridge and was going to put a bunch together to throw in the freezer. Well she saw me put it in there and when I turned around, she had pulled it out and was “finger painting ” in it, in her beautiful white eyelet dress. I was wishing I had a camera, her expression was pure joy. What a mess, but what a memory!
Making pizza together as a family! It’s fun and a time to catch up with each other too!
We LOVE making pizza together! We have a 5 year old boy, an almost 4 year old girl and a 13 month old girl and every Wednesday is make your own pizza night! We get creative with toppings and have so much fun designing pizzas!
We make pancakes together every Sunday mornings and it’s a lot of fun.
My kids love cooking! They have really all been in the kitchen since the age of 2 baking bread and cookies and gingerbread houses etc. I think the best part is my 9 year old daughter makes dinner (her speciality she calls it) a few times a month by herself (except for the oil part)! Breaded chicken is her favourite…she has her little bowls set out for the egg; one for flour and one for bread crumbs. Does the whole preparation, then I put it in the oil, but she takes over again to flip the chicken; take it out and put it on a plate w/paper towel and continues till all the chicken is done. My boys love to cut up the broccoli and cucumber that accompany the chicken, and they help with the rice. It is amazing how a kitchen can bring a family together!!
baking-ccokies,brownies,cinnamon rolls-yum!
my 18 month old is a bit small to get right in there helping me, but she does use the pots and pans and wooden spoons on the floor mixing up something imaginary, and is excited to have me taste her creation! she’ll be an excellent chef one day i’m sure!
The kids love to bake cookies. Our signature family cookie includes smarties. They discuss and agree each time on how the smarties will be placed on the cookies. It’s amazing the different ways they come up to make the cookies look different time.
My kids love baking. they drag their little stools into the kitchen and I let them participate as much as they like.
I love baking with my girls! It is a great bonding moment in a rather hectic life. Our favourite thing to bake together is banana bread. Yummy!
Favourite recent moment is teaching the kids how to make crackers. The girl-child loves whole-wheat crackers and the boy-child loves his cheese crackers – better than goldfish 🙂 Watching them using a food processor and then rolling out the dough is rewarding.
discovering the wonders of shake n bake (it’s true!!!)
My son is starting to become really interested in cooking and brings all these cookbooks home from the library. We work as a team, usually he’ll work on getting the ingredients and preparing the veggies while I prepare the meat, and then he always does the dishes in the end since he uses so many whenever he cooks. Every ingredient has to have its separate plate! Anyway, it’s fun trying out all these new recipes with him. 🙂
cooking spaghetti and teaching them that you can tell the pasta is ready when you throw it against the wall and it sticks 🙂
I loved baking with my girls, especially at Christmas time. They loved making different kinds of cookies; they rolled out and cut cookies like pros! Unfortunately they usually were pooped out by the time the icing of the cookies was to be done so I got that job all to myself. Fabulous memories!
I has to be baking. They always like helping with that. Making funny shape cookies.
I really enjoy cooking with my daughter and recently she helped me make my grandmothers famous apple pie. We did the whole day. First we went to the apple farm and picked a bagful of McIntosh apples. Then we prepared the dough, cut up all those apples, added the spices and put it in the oven. She said it tasted so good because we had made it together. The best day ever.
The kids got an easy bake oven, now they actually want to help me cook!
I enjoy baking with my kids, sometimes they like to help me make dinner. Maybe one day they’ll be making me dinner!
Love making Christmas shortbread cookies…..great memories!
My favorite moment with my daughter was wrapping cabbage rolls… good times!
Baking their birhday cake !
I love baking muffins with my boys! They are only 3 but I always do 2 batches at a time, and pre measure ingredients so they can each help me and its not chaotic! They both listen extremely well and they love to share our muffins with daddy when he gets home from work!
My favorite cooking time with the kids is our weekly Sunday morning breakfast. This is one day out of the week that we don’t have to fly out the door. We listen to music, laugh, and take turns with the prep, setting the table, and clean-up. My husband and I love this precious time with the kids.
Baking with my children especially around the holidays leaves me with wonderful memories.
I let the children help me with any thing I’m doing. They love stirring things and measuring and they are so proud to be a part of preparing meals or baked goods.
Baking all sort of things with them; it nice to see how creative they are!
I love making and decorating Christmas sugar cookies. We like playing with the food coloring and making different colored icing. Last year we had army green and brown frosting! haha.
my favourite moment is cooking cookies with the family
we used to always bake cookies and muffins together. i let my kids do the measuring and mixing with me, lots of fun!
I was brought up with Chef Boyardee and so is my son! I like to cook, but admit I do prefer easy recipes like Chiloni!!
I always let the kids decorate the cupcakes I make. They love this and do a pretty good job, well, the 7-year-old anyways. My 2-year-old needs to work on his technique lol.
Making and decorating the gingerbread house each Christmas.
My youngest grandson loves to cook as much as his big brother. Last week the youngest took over and made a beautiful snowman cake with a little assistance with the measuring. He manned the mixer after combining all of the ingredients set out. He helped decorate the cake and it turned out beautifully. He is all of five years old.
Making gingerbread and Christmas cookies with the kids was so much fun! Because of the time spent in the kitchen with them, my oldest son now enjoys cooking and baking on his own.
The first time I baked cookies with them was amazing because of the pride they had in making something themselves from scratch.
I’ll never forget the time I made the mistake of turning my back for a moment (really, it was just seconds!) and my little boy dumped the whole bag of flour all over the table! Of course, now he is a teenager and can be a huge help in the kitchen…when he feels like it, of course.
Chef Boyardee is the best in a hurry. It’s easy to add to it to boost the veggie quota without the kids noticing and my 8 year old can get the meal started with minimal interference from Mom which makes him feel great! My favorite cooking time in the kitchen has to be at this time of year baking and decorating gingerbread houses with my four boys – it’s a riot:)
Good luck Theresa! Sounds yummy! I would love to get those Hungarian pastry recipes and surprise my hubby!
My kids love cooking with me. Especially their favourite Macaroni and Cheese. They stand on a stool over the oven and stir (with my supervision of course). My grandma let me do this as a kid when I went to her house for sleepovers and it is such a special memory for me. I want my children to experience the same thing and to also inspire a love of cooking just like I have.
My kids love to bake, so of course I let them. It is great to learn and have quality family time at the same time!
We do lots of cooking together, lots of baking, to get my son to “eat” dinner he helps put some food together to enjoy. Its good quality time.
Definitely the best cooking moments would be baking with the kids! They love nothing more than to get in there with me, and add the ingredients, mix and all of that. They hang around the kitchen peeking into the oven saying “I made this”. Christimas time especially with baking cookies, it is defnitely messy, but there’s nothing like having fun with the kids and seeing the pride on their faces when they come out of the oven!
I love baking cookies with my kids because they love creating all kinds of fancy cookies with sprinkles and chocolate chips etc. and then proudly declaring that they made these treats. They love to dip cookies in chocolate, too!
When we make a recipe for dinner that requires lots of chopping they love to help, too, and then claim which vegeggies they chopped as we all enjoy our dinner. Somehow they seem to eat more when they help prepare the meal.
the best time my daughter and I have is when we bake.She is only 3 and loves to bake . rolled cookies are her fav.I love that I can pass on recipes to her even @ this early age.This week we are making traditional hungarian paistries and breads for the holidays.This will be her first time @ these …it should be fun.wish me luck