Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook, and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Return to saucepan to reheat if needed and serve with a little shredded cheese garnish.Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called the gold standard for chidren's cookbooks by the New York Times, Pretend Soup, by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food. Let cook covered for five minutes.Īdd the milk and then blend or process the soup until it is smooth. Increase heat to Medium and cook for about eight minutes.Īdd the broth and heat until it begins to boil. Add the scallions, celery, corn, salt and basil. Melt the butter in a medium-sized saucepan on low heat until melted.

Pretty much perfection, no?Ħ scallions, minced (just the white and lower half of the green part)Ģ cups corn (we used Trader Joe’s frozen white corn – it’s awesome! You can use fresh, frozen, canned.) Like, honest to goodness tasty! It was fresh, healthy, perfectly balanced between light and filling, and inexpensive. Look at that proud face! She was thrilled to serve it to the family, and you know what? It was good! Not made-by-my-own-child-so-I-have-to-act-like-i-like-it good. For her first selection, Adeline chose Creamy Corn Soup. When I manage to be organized and create a weekly meal plan (man, I feel like a rock star when that happens!), I ask the girls to each pick a recipe. How else will they learn if not by doing? These are great reminders for me to go ahead and let them chop things up, stir things in a hot pot, mash the button on the processor. She also makes it clear which parts a child should be able to do on their own and which parts might require an adult’s help: uncovering the pot and deciding if the liquid is hot enough, setting up the blender, taking the pureed soup out of the blender. The instructions are laid out as step-by-step pictures, but Katzen offers more detailed instructions for a supervising adult.

Five-year-old Alice got Pretend Soup, while eight-year-old Adeline got Honest Pretzels, and I have to say these books have been perfect for them and for us to cook together. Mostly it’s macaroni and cheese, but to help expand their culinary horizons, I got them each a book by Moosewood Cookbook author, Mollie Katzen.

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