cooking ideas anyone?

[scarletfiasco]

Does anyone out there cook anything other than fairy cakes with kids? DD licks the bowl and likes it but I feel bad always cooking sweet things with her.....

[cocobean]

Yeah I know what you mean about too much sweet stuff. A friend just forwarded this to me http://hattieskitchen.posterous.com

It's great hope you get some ideas.

[womanofdulwich]

cheese scones? cheese straws? sausage rolls?

jam tarts or biscuits are fun - coconut macaroons?

[damzel]

The ready made rolled puff pastry is great for making tomato and cheesey rolls, puff pizza's, twists, all sorts. Easy to hide the spinach too

[scarletfiasco]

Thanks - good ideas, Cocobean I had a look at that website - its great full of lots of stuff so thanks for that tip.

[cate]

Soup, like potato and leek and let them use a hand liquidiser. Banana bread is always good and they can smash the bananas with a potato masher. There are some good low fat and sugar recipes out there. You can also substitute applesauce for some butter.

[mockney piers]

The much maligned "I Can Cook" on cbeebies is full of ideas, though admittedly I'd rather they did cauliflower cheese than asparagus frittata, but you can't have everything.

Katy....*sighs*

 

[sparkle]

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[cate]

Here is a link to a really easy tasty banana bread. It's also very good toasted with butter and keeps for quite a few days well wrapped. Nice with cream cheese as well. I would suggest making two and let the bananas get really brown before using.

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/banana_bread/

[Fuschia]

small round pittas, spread with tomato sauce, sprinkle with cheese and pizza toppings.... 5 mins in oven

[Pickle]

Thanks for sharing the banana bread recipe Cate, we've just filled in 20 minutes mashing bananas and having a fun time mixing and it's in the oven now. Seems too easy to be true, 49 minutes until we can test it. Now I'm off to de-flour my kitchen...

[damzel]

Funny, we've just done the same thing. It smells delicious but we have another 30 mins to wait yet hmmmmm.

[Pickle]

Mmmmmmmmmm. the banana bread recipe is a winner! Delicious. I'm sure it does keep well for a couple of days, but I doubt it will last that long (off to cut myself another slice, kids happily munching away)

[purplepumpkin]

Kids and me just made the butternut squash crumble from that hatties kitchen site - thanks for that link. I'm about to give it to kids, so will let you know what they think...

[cate]

Pickle Wrote:

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> Mmmmmmmmmm. the banana bread recipe is a winner!

> Delicious. I'm sure it does keep well for a

> couple of days, but I doubt it will last that long

> (off to cut myself another slice, kids happily

> munching away)

Glad you liked it. If the top gets too brown then cover with foil and/or turn oven down a bit. Loaf pan size, type , material can change how it cooks as can oven temp. You can add ingredients to it but I prefer it without add-ins. It also freezes well. If you have surfeit of bananas going brown you can also freeze them and then use them another day. Just defrost for a couple of hours at room temperature before using.

[LeilahB]

There is a cookery class for 2-5 year olds at Rosendale CC on Mondays at 10am which is absolutely great - they get all the kids cooking a savoury and a sweet (last time it was ghost-shaped pizzas and pumpkin muffins) and then they sit down and have an early lunch. Very popular so good to get there early for a place, but we've found it really fun and a really good way of trying new foods/recipes