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Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids 

This cookbook has been a great find. It’s not a cutsie cookbook filled with a bunch of recipes involving lots of sugar or smiley faces on the food.  It’s not a cookbook you hand off to your children and tell them to get going.  No, it’s a cookbook that’s for the both of you or the whole family.  It’s also a good read (those of you who love cookbooks will know what I’m talking about.) 

The author designed this cookbook to involve kids in the whole process – learning about how food is grown and how it is brought to market, making good nutritional choices, basic cooking techniques, making the kitchen kid-friendly, age appropriate cooking, how to use appliances, etc.   The author educates the adults in a friendly way so they can turn around and involve/teach the children.

What I’m trying to say is that Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids is more than recipes, although there are plenty of those. 

The format of the book is kid-friendly with plenty of pictures, instructions, “try this” boxes, notes, and “tip” boxes,  For example, the Lemon Rosemary Chicken recipe has a “freezes well” icon, 4 pictures , info on the time it takes to make and the time it takes altogether including baking, the nutritional information, ingredients, directions, and a Cook’s Tip box.  I appreciate that the recipes are for food that is good for my family.  Light and Fluffy Oat Pancakes, Gobble It Up Turkey Kabobs, Squish Squash Soup, Pizza Your Way, Savory Cheese and Scallion Scones, and Ginger Applesauce Cake are a few of the recipes. 

There are cookbooks out there with easier recipes, but this cookbook is about learning to cook real meals and learning skills that will last a lifetime.  It’s about sharing experiences, adult and child, in the spirit of adventure and cooperation.