Ready, Steady, Spaghetti: Cooking For Kids And With Kids [Paperback]

Lucy Broadhurst (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

Recipes for "little food" such as after-school snacks, breakfast, soups, and sammies go a long way in Broadhurst's clever Ready, Steady, Spaghetti.

Broadhurst makes cooking with kids easy and entertaining. Kids will fill up on fun and food with cool and exciting recipes like Spaghetti with Chicken Meatballs, Stir-Fried Chinese Vegetables, Moo Juice, Lemon Butterfly Cakes, Fairy Wands, Martian Cookies, Chocolate-Cherry Spiders, and more. She even makes preparing (and eating) vegetables a treat.

And the excitement doesn't stop there. There's also a party food section that will have kids celebrating.

This is a kid's cookbook that will score with the big kids.

* Feeds the imagination.

Ready, Steady, Spaghetti's vibrant design and 300 color photographs will draw both kids and adults into the kitchen. Cute and affordable, Ready, Steady, Spaghetti will show kids how it's done in the kitchen with easy-to-follow recipes and step-by-step photos.

* Includes 130 kid-friendly recipes from starters to not-too-serious main dishes.

* Sections include: Little Food, Dinner Time, Eat Your Greens, Sticky Treats, Let's Party, and more.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This big, user-friendly paperback cookbook full of color photos is all about food with major kid-appeal.... Whether your little one is in the kitchen cooking along or just needs some dishes tailored to his or her developing palate, this looks like a winning book. --A Mingling of Tastes, June 15, 2009

Review

This is one cookbook that, if you have kids, you'll be pulling out often, especially if you like working with them in the kitchen.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (March 17, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740780875
• ISBN-13: 978-0740780875
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,280,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Appealing, March 30, 2009

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H. O. Woodruff "kirbyjack" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ready, Steady, Spaghetti: Cooking For Kids And With Kids (Paperback)

This beautiful cookbook is not only appealing to the eyes, but to the stomach as well! Ready, Steady, Spaghetti is a lovely cookbook that made me want to share it with all of my friends. We actually sat down at the dining room table and planned which recipes we wanted to try first. The bright pictures and step-by-step directions were very attractive to the reader.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and sometimes delicious, May 18, 2009

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Sharon (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ready, Steady, Spaghetti: Cooking For Kids And With Kids (Paperback)

I love the idea of this book. My kids are 2 1/2 (so likely young for the target audience) but love cooking so I want to get them more involved. I really appreciate the photos, particularly the recipes that have photos of multiple steps, kind of like the kids' version of pioneerwoman.com. I like the variety of recipes, both in terms of types of food (e.g., dinner vs. dessert) and the variety of cultures represented. On the negative side, there are occasional inaccuracies (e.g., pumpkin soup has butternut squash, not pumpkin, as an ingredient). There also sometimes could be more detail, particularly for children (e.g., sometimes it doesn't say what level heat to use on the stove).

I've now made 4 recipes. Vegetarian chili was a hit. Grown ups and kids all loved it. Chicken and leek risotto was our least favorite. I loved it in theory, but it had very little flavor. I might try it again with 3 or 4 (instead of 1) leeks and more seasoning. Tofu with greens and noddles was also rather bland (and my kids love tofu). The biggest hit was jam thumbprints. The recipe was super simple and tasty. But more important, it was really fun for the kids to make. There was measuring, pouring, mixing, rolling dough, making the thumbprints, and adding the jam, and of course, eating cookies. Ours looked nowhere near as pretty as the photo, but no one cared!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Expand their food horizons!, March 25, 2009

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J. L. Halas (Midwest United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ready, Steady, Spaghetti: Cooking For Kids And With Kids (Paperback)

This is going to be a two part review. First I will review it and then I will ask my daughter for comments on the book to get a kid's perspective.

The first thing I noticed about this book was that it is total eye-candy. The photographs and layout are really beautiful! I like that the dishes have simple flavors combined in a sophisticated way. They appeal to children and also encourage them to expand their food horizons instead of taste-talking down to them. We have only made a few of the dishes, but we really want to try them ALL! It has been fun cooking with my children and the instructions are so clear and easy to follow that they can make some if the dishes with minimal assistance from me! We LOVE this book!

"I think this is a really good book. The recipes make good food and I love cooking them. The name of the book is silly and fun. I would like to have friends over and cook this food for them. I know they will love it!"