21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very cute, and useful too, August 18, 2006
This review is from: Cooking in a Can: More Campfire Recipes for Kids (Acitvities for Kids) (Paperback)
This is a really cute and useful book. It has a lot of color illustrations to make it very attractive for a child to read. Also, the concept of cooking over your campfire -- or over several different types of home-made grills that they teach you how to make -- is fun and different. This actually seems to be book two of a series -- the first looks like it's called "Cooking on a Stick, Campfire recipes for kids" by Linda White.
Anyway, the chapters are as follows:
Planning and Packing (make a cooking apron)
Setting up Camp (with a craft for making a banner for your site)
Campires (make a wood carrier out of a sweatshirt, and make some different kinds of fire starters)
Cooking on Outdoor Stoves (make a tin-can grill, canyon sandwiches with English muffins, recipe for asparagus "forests")
Cooking in a (full-sized) garbage can (make a garbage can cooker, make a small "buddy" burner, pizza soup recipe, apple stampede recipe [which is just apple sauce])
Cooking in a paper bag or paper cup (recipe for rise 'n' shine breakfast [bacon and eggs in a bag], chocolate on a stick)
Cooking in Leaves and other foods (bean burgers recipe, bloomin' muffins [muffins you cook in orange peels! how cool!]
Hot rock cooking (sunrise toast and hot rock chicken)
Pit Cooking (fondue and cake)
Solar oven cooking (veggie pie and cookies with granola)
Spit cooking (mushrooms and kebobs)
Dutch oven cooking (stew and cake)
The recipes seem to be well explained and simple enough for kids who are the correct age to actually read the book. (Amazon lists ages 4-8, which from the kid-style illustrations seems right on.) The gimmick of cooking in the woods is fun and safety instructions are included and explained. For example, they explain what makes a good rock to cook on! And they include a long list of supplies and safety equipment, even explaining how to properly -- and safely -- douse a fire. They also cover "what is safe drinking water?" and how to build the perfect campfire.
For those of you who are Family Fun magazine fans, (I appreciate their crafts and clever ideas), for camping fans, and for cooking fans who would like to try something new with their kids, this book is a fun addition to your library.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't let the title fool you, February 4, 2009
This review is from: Cooking in a Can: More Campfire Recipes for Kids (Acitvities for Kids) (Paperback)
I remember cooking meals in a can when I was little, so I was excited to order this book for my husband, who is our son's Cubmaster. However I was disappointed (and maybe I didn't read the reviews close enough) to find that there are very few actual recipes for cooking in a can.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun book for kids, May 17, 2010
This review is from: Cooking in a Can: More Campfire Recipes for Kids (Acitvities for Kids) (Paperback)
This is a fun book for kids. It was less detailed than I would have liked, but if you have a parent who knows what they are doing there are a lot of great ideas in this book. My kids love it, and I will keep looking and practicing to put some of these ideas and projects into play. There are many more ideas than just can cooking. Cooking on a rock, in a paper cup, in a pit, and in a homemade solar oven are also included.
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