Do you cook with your kids? The Mom and Me Cookbook is a great way to make cooking with kids fun!
Kids eat with their eyes and they will find a visual feast in Annabel Karmel’s Mom and Me Cookbook. The simple and creative recipes found in The Mom and Me Cookbook are easy enough for kids as young as 3 years old to help prepare and will give kids a tasty and attractive treat. With a variety of snack recipes, main course recipes, and sweet treats, kids will be sure to find something that looks good enough to eat.
Simple Directions for Kids
Recipes in The Mom and Me Cookbook are easy for kids to follow. Clearly numbered steps help kids follow the order of the recipe, and teaches them to read recipes on their own. An large easy-to-read font is used so even beginning readers will be able to make out the words.
Vibrant Step by Step Photos
Even non-readers will be able to follow recipes. Each recipe has wonderful photographs of the ingredients and cooking supplies that kids will need to complete the recipe. Photographs of kids performing each step of the recipe make it clear what the directions are asking for. Photos that illustrate steps that need an adult to help include a bright red exclamation point so kids know they need to ask mom or dad to step in.
Photos of the final product are visually appealing to kids and laid out in a decorative and creative way that would make a fun addition to any table.
Photos are such a huge part of this cookbook for kids that even the table of contents includes a small photo of each recipe so kids can easily find what they are looking for. The beginning of the cookbook includes a photo guide of all the cooking equipment that will be used in the recipes and photo illustrations of what basic cooking terms such as beat, mix, and sift mean.
Encourages Kids to Try New Foods
Many recipes for kids use very basic ingredients and do not even try to expand kids' taste experiences. Kids will not know whether or not they enjoy a particular food until they have been exposed to it several times, so it is important to continuously use a variety of ingredients when cooking with kids.
The Mom and Me Cookbook escapes the kid food rut by including a variety of foods in each recipe and is not afraid to use ingredients that kids may not claim as their favorites. For example, this book encourages kids to try red pepper strips by dipping them in avocado frog dip or have them try radishes by using them to create ears on their very own potato mice. In this way, kids may be more open to trying new foods after they have helped to prepare them.
