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[northway]

My school wants me to turn in a bunch of recipes for our cooking class. They want stuff that kinders can help with, but all the prep needs to be done in a 40 minute class. Does anyone have any suggestions? Fun and creative stuff would obviously be better.

Thanks.

[ticktocktocktick]

Chocolate cornflake cakes is pretty easy to do with kids.

Try this site: http://www.childrensrecipes.com/childrens_recipes_index.htm

[Skippy]

The cooking I have done.

Fruit Shiskebabs - Went okay. You can ask students to bring some fruit in. Add some Chocolate sauce or whipped cream to the mix. Chop skewer, dunk, and eat. Still in the end it ended up a eating scrum around the cooking area.

Pancakes - horrible - never again! All the kids are neat freaks half the time and are so reluctant to try and do stuff. Expect to run around helping a bunch of kids who will want you to do it all for them. I would consider trying French toast as it is a bit easier to cook and make plus a whole lot less burning to happen.

Eggs and Toast - Really. Just a simple scrambled egg mix and fry on toast. Once again the kids want you to do it for them. Still it went okay but it is boring and the kids will not be impressed.

Roasting marshmallow and Trying to make s'mores. This went pretty well. Go to Costco get a big bag of marshmallows and get the ever present korean portable gas range and roast some marshmallows on chopsticks or those long o-dang sticks. The s'mores can be a little difficult. As Korea does not have Graham Crackers you will have to substitute with some Korean cracker or cookie. Ghana chocolate bars are perfect for the chocolate portion. The kids really liked this one and the participated thru you do have to be careful that kids do not try and light each other on fire. Also a few marshmallows that do get burned some kids will not want to eat. Cleaning up is a bit of a bother as it gets sticky. Stock up on some extra towels and soap.

Brought in my little toaster over and made Tuna Melts. Little slow going as I had two small ovens. The problems with this one was some students are really picky. You will get some that do not want cheese or even tuna or just no mayo with the tuna. Once gain get some good cheddar from Costco if you want to save some dough get some Korean pizza cheese avoid the plastic cheese.

Homemade ice cream. Basically milk, sugar, some chocomix, some plastic bags, salt, whole bunch of ice and 10 5 min of shaking. This one went okay with the kids but their hands got cold quickly. So this one you might want to save for Summer and remember to bring some gloves.

Some pieces of Advice.

1. Careful with trying strange (to them)or new stuff with them. Kids already have their likes and dislikes. Take that item you loved as a kid and reverse it the kids here will mostly not like it. I mean take the classic kid snack of peanut butter and jam on bread. The kids will look at you like your nuts if you want to put jam and PB together ON BREAD! it might be one or the other but NOT together.

2. Keep it simple. The more ingredients or steps you have to do the more things will go wrong. Remember you have only two hands and each step you are going to have half the students wanting help on what to do and right now, now, now, now.

3. Neatness. The present generation (West too) are all little neat freaks. Ask them to mix or do something with their hands they will either say no or do it at arms length with finertips or with two chopsticks very carefully like it is radioactive. God forbid they get something on them before they are asking to clean up in the bathroom or crying/whining about the mess. So best to avoid the liquids and mixing if you can.

4. Get help. Each time I had to cook (which I am horrible one) it has either ended up poorly or me getting so frustrated and angry. So get a coteacher to help you. Do not take any excuses of "Ahh this will be easy and you can do it on your own". Even if the coteacher does no cooking, you will need them to referee.

5. If you want it done the right way do everything yourself. That can include the shopping. Now with my present school they said they would pick up the stuff for me. 95 percent of the time it went okay. But there will be that one or two things not found or gotten. They will either say you can do it with out said item or they bring something to substitute. So you might have to make the effort to do the shopping, drag in all the supplies needed, and cook yourself.

Good Luck.

[northway]

Thanks for the help. We actually already have a cooking class, they're just tired of having everything handed in on a month to month basis and having to make sure they're not repeating stuff, so they're formalizing it a bit more. A lot of that stuff wouldn't pass their smell test, as they tend to want more complicated recipes, even though we've only got forty minutes to cook/eat/clean.

[jrwhite82]

Make Dirt Pie - Chocolate or Vanilla pudding, mixed with crushed up Oreos, throw in some gummi-worms. Bam!

[Catfisher]

Wow Skippy, that was awesome and 100% true.

Once for a summer camp class I tried to teach 6th graders how to make Denver omelettes (ham, green peppers, onions andd cheese). They didn't want any of the ham because it wasn't Korean, they didn't want any veggies, they were afraid of the sharp cheddar because it "smelled like feet."

So....that morning I taught them how to make scrambled eggs.

[s.tickbeat]

Chocolate chip cookies (ready in about 20 minutes):

Mix until blended smooth:

1/2 cup butter (melt in the microwave)
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup white or yellow sugar
1 egg

Stir in:

2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 cup chocolate chips


Garlic Bread, takes about 15 minutes:

chop up a bulb of garlic
Smear it into 1/2 cup of butter
Toast a whole baguette
Spread garlic butter on the baguette

Not just eats, either! Try drinks if you've got a blender!

Strawberry Daiquiris for Kids

- 4 cups frozen strawberries (or fresh, if you've got it!)
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 cup water (or two cups ice)

BLEND! And adjust sugar to your taste. For a party at your house, just add rum!

Super-healthy smoothies!

- 1 litre of milk
- 1 cup of either: bananas, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, or raspberries (hell, they might like red bean)
- 3 tablespoons sugar OR vanilla ice cream
- 1 spoonful yoghurt

BLEND! Adjust everything to your tastes. There are a million variations here, too: use chocolate milk and strawberries, or maybe add a spoonful of peanut butter to a banana smoothie!

I hope this helps!

[NYC_Gal]

No bake "cinnamon rolls"

Ingredients:
White bread, crusts trimmed off
butter
cinnamon
powdered sugar
milk

Mix cinnamon and sugar in a bowl.
Mix powdered sugar with milk to make icing.
Each kid gets 2 slices of bread.
They spread butter on both pieces, then sprinkle cinnamon sugar on the butter.
Roll it up then cut into pieces (I tell them kimbap style) and turn them face up.
Drizzle icing on top.

The kids LOVED these. The next day, I was helping out the aftercare class (kids with single parents or both parents working, whose families can't afford babysitters. They're starved for attention) and had a bunch of 1st and 2nd graders. I had leftovers from the previous day with the older kids, so we did the same thing, only we skipped the cutting part. The kids just dipped their roll ups into their icing bowls directly.

[cmr]