Angie is my star chef in the making, lol. Just need to give her a recipe and the ingredients and she can do it. So far she has cooked Beef Stroganoff, Spag Bol, Ham and Potato Bake and bangers and mash with onion gravy. Other stuff she does regular is pikelets, self saucing chocolate pudding, Jam Drops, chocolate crackle and choc coconut slice (although its more like a heavy cake).
CJ helps me out with mousse, scones, the chicken cacciatore and osso bucco/braised lamb shanks.
Lyta and Sam tend to help me out with the angel cakes and other stuff - although thats just to "clean the spoon" for me, haha.
My kids are the same, and it all got a bit much with homeschooling and all (I use cooking for a few crossover subjects) so they're allowed to cook one thing with me a week - and they can choose whatever they like so its like a treat. We've made cupcakes, jelly, pizza, cookies, cheese toast, turkish pide, they make their own salads too now lol easy stuff but still helping out nonetheless.
DD- 8years helps me cook most things. She uses the stove and oven provided I am in the kitchen supervising. She cooks spag bol, sausages, things in the oven etc. I do the dangerous things like draining hot stuff, transfering from frypan.
DS 3years LOVES cooking. For instance, yesterday we made lemonade scones and today we made weet bix slice (which is delicious and SO easy might I add. Do an internet search on weet bix slice and the recipe will come up). He does all the tipping in of the ingredients and helps with the mixing. He sets the oven and I have taught him to use the oven mit when we both put the tray in and out of the oven. Its all age appropriate for HIS development and I am teaching him safty too. He also has a little vegetable knife that he gets to use sometimes too.
Miss 4 loves to help cook, but sometimes I just do not have the patience. As I am doing a lot more home cooking, rather than buying processed, our biscuit making is for need not fun. So there are days where I just need to get in and get it done, rather than deal with the extra time it takes with a little helper.
I know I should let her help more, but I do need to psych myself up for it.
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