Kids in the Kitchen
One of the lovely parts of Christmas is catching up with friends and their families, and we were interested to hear about the children of friends being keen on cooking. Can this be true? Aren’t people always saying that the younger generation isn’t learning to cook, that they are all junk food addicts, that the next generation of new homes will be built without kitchens – or are these ideas being sprouted by doom-and-gloom merchants who can’t see anything positive in anything? We thought about the people we know who run wonderful cooking schools for kids in the school holidays, and we realized that we must not allow an anonymous “they” to take the joy of cooking away from our children by telling them they don’t do that any more.
With thoughts like these fresh in our well-rested minds, we returned from holidays with plans for yet another kit – you guessed it, it’s called “Kids in the Kitchen.” Although our children are grown up now, we well remember that they were somewhat impatient when it came to cooking. More often than not, they would drink the jelly rather than wait for it to set! So for the kit we have chosen recipes that don’t involve too much waiting around, and have included such favourites as things on sticks, potato wedges and pancakes, (with flavourful and not-too-hot spices) which will appeal to adults for their low-fat, nutritious elements as well as to the young cooks. To make it fun and a bit different, the box of this spice kit is a combination of yellow and purple bases and lids, and retails for $24.95 like all the others.