Indian Food Cuisine

What a scary idea! At least, that the way it seems from the start. We know a few things from personal experience. One cooking with kids can be messy. Leave some extra cleanup time, especially the first time. Second, cooking with kids means cooking for kids. They will want to cook what they want to eat. Third, quick and easy recipes are crucial to success. Fourth, the time spent will be precious in your memories.

If you want to be ready for the challenge, realize it will be a learning opportunity that can teach you about yourself and the way your children view you. Also recognize, its not only a good time, but almost required that you let your hair down a little, relax, and have fun in the kitchen. It really becomes fun, interesting and exciting as you watch little hands help you create easy cooking. Choose what to cook wisely. Make sure you find easy cooking recipes.

When you are trying to think of cooking ideas, remember, this is teaching more than easy recipes for dinner, but real life skills that will help down the road. Actually, my husband taught me a lot about cooking because his mom taught him. Yes, I do wipe the spills of the floor and the crumbs of the counter, though I havent had any pasta stick to the ceiling.

One of the biggies is what to cook. Keep it simple. Choose easy recipes for dinner. Shop in advance so you arent caught in the middle of cooking having to load the kids into the car for a fast grocery run. Quick and easy recipes are also needed because long, complicated recipes will not hold the kids attention. They really do want to learn and help mommy out, but if it gets to complicated they will get bored with the details. Use easy recipes for dinner when cooking with children. If you use easy dinner recipes your chances for success will be much greater than with overly complicated or ingredient intense recipes. Some simple cooking ideas always include casseroles and crock pot cooking. Remember, your goal is easy cooking with a minimum of ingredients.

Consider the cleanup. The cooking is fun, but here is a teaching moment regarding responsibility. In cooking with kids, clean as you go whenever possible and get them involved in that aspect of cooking, too. When you consider clean up, you have another reason to want quick and easy recipes. Yes, you also want healthy easy recipes. Set yourself up a cooking book that will allow you to clean as you go.

Cooking with kids can be a fun filled day of being silly with the sugar and frolicking with the flour. Let go. Have fun. Make memories. Its worth it.

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