| Young chefs and kids who cook | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:20:44 AM by Kate Grant |  Kids love to cook.
They love being in the kitchen where all the action is. If you ever tried baking with your kids, you'll know what I mean. Baking cookies with my mom, on a rainy afternoon, was one of my childhood treats, and one of my fondest memories.
Cooking with kids can develop their creativeness, they have great ideas and they love to invent new things and cook for other kids. If you want to pursue the matter even further, you can find cooking classes for kids. Even kids at the tender age of three can experience some cooking at a special class designed for them, with the help and guidance parents.
If you have a picky eater at home, try to engage him or her in food preparations. Chances are they'll eat what they helped cooking. Older kids may find interest in a kids cooking club. Try finding recipes together, and maybe adjusting them if they're too complicated for kids to cook.
If you believe you are raising the new Jamie Oliver, think about sending your kid to cooking camp. What do you know, you might benefit from it as well...
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| | | Kids are going to need a nice warm-up | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:51:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Well it's official, winter is here. We actually have snow that covers the ground, and you can see snowplows flying around. There is a lot to love about having some snow on the ground. For me, not having the dirty look of mud and dead grass is a welcome sight. Every year, it seems, as I come down the bypass heading to work, there are always some cars that go off in the ditches, along with the welcome sight of somebody going 400 miles an hour flying by, signaling with their hand that I'm No. 1. I always enjoy those times when I get to pull even with them at the light and can express that I feel they are really No. 1. It always seems awkward for them for some reason. The thing I always get a kick out of is watching the kids sledding down the back hill. When we were kids, we were so much more daring than the kids these days, or so it seems.... | |
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| | | Healthy Habits program for healthier kids | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:59:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | As a 3-year-old toddler, Benjamin Hardenstine of McMichaels was diagnosed with asthma, a condition that required frequent use of an inhaler throughout his young childhood. At age 11, his health has taken a 180-degree turn through a pediatrician-recommended Healthy Habits program at Pocono Family YMCA. Hardenstine, a sixth-grade student at Pleasant Valley Intermediate, hardly uses his inhaler at all, even while running through soccer games, on the treadmill and with neighborhood children. Using suggestions from the program led by a local nurse and dietician, Hardenstine formed his own nutritional routines and lost 20 pounds as a result. The program was a breath of fresh air, in a sense, and while it was meant to decrease his weight, it also improved Hardenstine's activity, endurance and eating habits.... | |
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| | | Winslet Keen For More Kids | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:50:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | KATE WINSLET is enjoying motherhood so much she plans to double her brood. The TITANIC actress already has two children - MIA, six, with ex-husband JIM THREAPLETON, and JOE, three, with her current spouse SAM MENDES - but insists her maternal urges still aren't satisfied. The 31-year-old says, "I'm hoping to have more kids. "I don't know whether (to have) one or two. Oh God, I would love to have more." And Winslet insists the most satisfying part of motherhood is bringing her children up as far away from the Hollywood lifestyle as possible. She says, "Mia said to me the other day in the car, 'Mum, I really love your cooking.' "To me it was a sort of incredibly triumphant moment, the fact that she observed that I do cook their meals. It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition." 14/11/2006 17:19 .... | |
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| | | Portmeirion helps to get the kids cooking | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:51:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | PORTMEIRION Pottery has launched a new children's cookery set with the aim of getting more kids into the kitchen. Following the success of her oven-to-tableware range, cook and food writer Sophie Conran has designed a smaller set for youngsters, inspired by memories of cooking with her own mum as a child. She said, "I wanted to create a cooking set for kids that was practical and fun, and something that would be lovely to use. I think it's really important that children understand how food is made, to love ingredients and the whole process of cooking. "It's what my mum did with me, so I really wanted mine to start young - it's such fun as well, much nicer to get messy in the kitchen together than spending hours watching telly." Sophie, daughter of designer Sir Terence Conran, has two children - Felix, 12, and Coco, 10.... | |
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| | | A vote for the family business | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:54:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | COLONIE -- For Teigin Legault, it's no contest. The 2006 campaign season was the best one ever to be Mike McNulty's eldest grandchild. There were, of course, the usual perks. Spending time with her grandfather the congressman and standing with him on stage at political rallies always rank high on her list of fun things to do. .... | |
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| | | 'Friends' | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:54:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Children in the United States and Japan might share a love of comics, Harry Potter, baseball and pop music, but the "Five Friends From Japan" exhibit at the Portland Children's Museum explores the many ways life is different for kids growing up in the Far East. The view of a cultural landscape that differs from our own is apparent at the outset. A traditional Japanese classroom opens the exhibit. In addition to common schoolroom items such as textbooks, pencils and math tools, the neat desks feature items for children to explore and manipulate. More surprising is the closet containing brooms and mops that Japanese schoolchildren use to help clean the school, as there are no janitors on staff. After checking out the classroom, children are free to wander the other exhibit settings.... | |
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| | | Emeril Lagasse kicks it up for kids | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:52:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | Emeril Lagasse might be the most famous chef in America. He has a wildly popular television show. He has several well-known restaurants, including three in New Orleans (one of which is still closed because of Hurricane Katrina). This past summer he prepared a special meal -- freeze-dried jambalaya, a spicy stew -- for astronauts on the space shuttle. But when he started cooking, he was just a 7-year-old boy hanging out with his mom at home in Massachusetts. His first major kitchen project was vegetable soup. He cooked a batch every day for four or five days straight. His mom, Hilda, would taste each one and tell him it was pretty good before suggesting that some ingredient be changed a bit or cooked a little more or a little less. "When I got it right, she said, `This is how it should be.... | |
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| | | From bread bowls to trifles, children test culinary skills | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:49:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | More than 40 participants entered their best recipes in the first Dish and Spoon Cooking Contest sponsored by the Nacogdoches Public Library. Saturday's contest for "kid cooks" ranging in age from 4 to 18, was a springboard event for next Saturday's cookbook swap featuring a special presentation by Ann Barton of Texas Women's University. A love of cooking and an interest in recipes is a hobby apparently shared by all ages, according to Mercedes Franks, assistant library director and coordinator of the contest, which was suggested by NPL circulation clerk Rita Daniels. "Rita noticed that there were a lot of kids checking out cookbooks," Franks said. "She said we should have a cooking contest. "So, we did," she said. "It's really taken off, it's been a lot of fun, and we've gotten a lot of response.... | |
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| | | Pfizer Gives Money To Fight Childhood Obesity | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 6:58:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Childhood obesity in Arkansas has been improving. This year, for the first time in years, obesity rates among kids did not increase. Still, 38 percent of Arkansas children are considered overweight. Arkansas is ranked as the seventh heaviest state in the country. Health officials want to change those numbers. In a major announcement Thursday that brought Pfizer Pharmaceutical executives in from the East Coast, a public/private partnership is launched. Pfizer President Peter Brandt says, “If we stand by and watch this happen, or oh, pine over what to do about it, nothing will happen. It will get worse and we'll look at the results of those children or adolescents that are having those prevalent rates now, 10 or 15 years from now and the impact it'll have on their lives and on society as well." The program is called Balance It Out: Arkansas.... | |
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| | | Americans Weigh in on Everything From Who's to Blame for Obesity to What Region Has the Best Cooking Skills | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:50:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fast food restaurants to blame for childhood and adult obesity? Not so says more than half of Americans. In fact, respondents to the 2006 Allrecipes.com & USA WEEKEND Magazine America's Kitchen Survey overwhelmingly (77 percent) believe parents are to blame for childhood obesity and more than 85 percent believe that each individual adult is responsible for his or her weight. Commissioned by Allrecipes.com and USA WEEKEND in August 2006, and issued by Insight Express, the survey measured how America's ever changing lifestyle trends affect how we live, cook and eat. Questions in the 2006 survey ran the gamut from what food you would name your baby after to what holds us back from achieving a healthy lifestyle. The survey's more than 1,600 respondents hailed from across the nation and ranged in age from 25 to 54.... | |
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