Cooking With Kids These bite-sized snacks are soft and moist and stay that way even when cooled. They are the perfect size for school lunch boxes and quick snacks. Mini muffins freeze and defrost well so go ahead make a whole bunch at one time. Be sure to let the kids help gather ingredients, measure, mix, […]
Pasta Primavera
Chicken Marsala
Cooking With Kids When making dinner for kids most nannies wouldn’t consider using mushrooms. But since my charges have been served the same recipes as their parents since they started eating at the same dining table, they actually love some mushroom dishes. If you care for a child that doesn’t like mushrooms they still will love this grown-up […]
Easy Baked Ziti Recipe
Cooking With Kids The kids I care for love pasta dishes. Baked Ziti is one of the easiest recipes to make and is a fun project and mini science project as well. I let the kids gather the food needed from the fridge and pantry, measure the ingredients, and mix the ingredients together. My youngest charge loves […]
Spinach Steak Pinwheels

Cooking for Kids With the exception of very spicy foods, when I feed the kids I care for the same food that I make for their parents I have found that they have surprisingly sophisticated palates. Instead of offering the kids a separate meal of frozen, processed chicken nuggets and fries try serving them the […]
Sweet, Sour, and Crunchy Chicken Drumsticks

Cooking for Kids The little ones I cook dinner for love chicken drumsticks. I marinated these drumsticks in the sweet and sour sauce for a few hours then rolled them in the breadcrumbs and started baking them 45-minutes before dinner was served. Serving mashed potatoes and steamed green beans with the drumsticks make a complete […]
Making Paninis

Cooking with Kids There’s no reason kids should only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch. Step it up a notch and take a few extra minutes to make them warm paninis this winter. The warm grilled sandwich combinations are almost limitless. And you don’t have to only use ordinary, boring white or wheat […]
Making an Easy Meat Lasagna

Cooking with Kids When it’s snowing outside nothing warms the kids up better than a homemade meat lasagna. Although I cooked the noodles and browned the beef, the kids helped make this entire dish. They helped gather the ingredients from the fridge and pantry and they measured and mixed everything needed in the recipe. They […]

