Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids (Paperback)

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Product Description

Picture yourself in the kitchen with your family, taking pleasure in the everyday fun of good, healthful food, prepared by hand.P icture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids shows parents andchildren how to prepare tasty and nutritious food from scratch that they can share and enjoy with family and friends. Designed to involve children in all aspects of cooking, from the grocery store to the kitchen, the book teaches simple, fundamental cooking skills and techniques including food safety, basic equipment and tools, nutrition, and how to read a recipe. All of the recipes included in the book feature healthful, fresh ingredients and nutritional information and are laid out in a clear, step-by-step format with full-color photos to illustrate new skills and the finished product. Parents and kids will learn how to cook nutritious breakfasts, yummy lunches and main dishes, scrumptious sides and salads, sweet and savory breads and desserts, and more. Picture Yourself Cooking with Your Kids gets families into the kitchen to discover the joy of cooking together.

About the Author

Beth Sheresh has been cooking as long as she can remember and writing about food for a number of years. Starting when she was standing tip-toe on a kitchen chair, she learned to cook from a series of masters of kitchen magic. As a pre-teen, she moved to a town without a decent bakery and taught herself to bake bread. Since then, she has taught herself many more skills and helped lots of young friends learn to cook, always creating a signature cookie for them along the way.

Product Details

• Paperback: 245 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (October 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598635581
• ISBN-13: 978-1598635584
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #328,463 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent cookbook - for kids AND adults!, November 22, 2008

By	Jessica Voigts "tranquil reflections" (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Oh, What a great cookbook! I own over 3,000 cookbooks, several for children (our daughter is 6), and this is one of the best. Excellent recipes, teachable nutrition facts, and helpful hints. I highly recommend it!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, November 29, 2008

By	Seattle JP (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

I'm so impressed by this book. The recipes are not the standard kid-fare. They are healthy, tasty, wonderful recipes that will teach your kids to enjoy the real flavor of fresh foods and home cooking. There are photos of the foods being prepared--awesome for those who tend to second guess or wonder if they are doing things right. I'm going to buy a few more copies for friends.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than a cookbook, November 26, 2008

By	jimmyz - See all my reviews

This is a great cookbook. It contains much more than recipes, though. This book really teaches a healthy lifestyle, and includes strategies for passing that lifestyle on to your kids. Americans have largely embraced a fast-paced, fast-food lifestyle that encourages us to eat massive quantities of empty calories. This book offers helpful strategies to avoid these bad habits, without being preachy or sounding like the hippie handbook.
The recipes are great, too. The pancakes in particular are fabulous- healthy, tasty, great texture. My husband made them with our 2-year-old niece, and they had a blast. It was a simple enough recipe for her to be able to "help" a fair amount. All the recipes involve easy measurements, so kids of all ages can help in varying degrees.