Cooking with Kiki!

Kristen recently asked if she could cook with me in the kitchen – not ‘BAKE’ (as in the usual cupcakes or cookies thing) but ‘COOK’! Of course it’s something I would get around to showing her one day, I mean I don’t want my daughter going off to college and not be able to even boil an egg! But it was nice that the request came from her. I was the one that mentioned it shouldn’t be just cookies and cakes, and that she should learn some basic skills (scrambling an egg came to mind first) which she was fine with.

So, last weekend we decided to make ‘French Toast’.

So, step by step I tell her what to do. Here she is beating the egg in the dish – full of concentration :-)

She dipped the bread in the egg and sprinkled on cinnamon, then placed it in the pan.

Once both slices were cooked she wanted them cut in to strips, I guess so they resembled this . . . !!

And of course, being the sugar fiend that she is, she didn’t want just maple syrup drizzled on there with a little powdered sugar!

She wanted the powdered sugar mixed with water to make a frosting to drizzle on there + maple syrup + more powdered sugar!

I was the one that threw the raspberries on there to make it look healthy, ha ha :-) (which, I might add she didn’t eat!)

On a serious note, I’d much prefer she ate this wholewheat bread dipped in egg, drizzled with frosting, than the frozen ‘stuff’ we’ve had in the past. I don’t even want to think what ingredients are in those! We’ve had the Aunt Jemima toast sticks before (or Kristen has, I won’t eat it!) and it doesn’t even look like bread inside :(

And what’s worse is, they looked so ‘yucky’ I didn’t even want to try them, but I was happy enough to feed it to my child! That has to stop, but more of this kind of cooking is a go!

After we made our first French Toast Kristen announced later in the day that she wanted to surprise Daddy with breakfast in bed the next morning, and make the French Toast again. We nearly succeeded! Jason woke up on Sunday morning and came downstairs before we cooked it. But Kristen still made it again and we all enjoyed it together :-)

We’ve made scrambled egg since then, and chicken nuggets, but I didn’t get pictures. Next time we do them I’ll take pics and blog about it again. Perhaps I’ll make a new series ‘Cookin with Kiki’ :-)

What about you, do you cook with your kids? If they’re older can you remember what the first thing you taught them was?

Have you seen the site Spatulatta.com? If you have kids that want to get in the kitchen with you check it out. It’s kids showing kids how to cook… lots of videos of recipes on there.