Cooking with Mom

In some cultures, kids are taught to cook from an early age. Now is the time to begin teaching our children to cook so that we can hand down generations of recipes our mothers and grandmothers saved for us.

Cooking with kids has been very popular these days. With the Food TB shows offering simple recipes, even a child can learn, has taken on new meaning in preparing foods in a busy household.

By teaching your child to cook a family meal, or even dessert, two to three times a week you are preparing them for adulthood and possibly introduce them to the world of culinary chefs.

Ask your kids to choose a few dishes you have made and begin the process of teaching them how to prepare the meal and cook it, age appropriate of course. In addition, desserts are probably the most fun to prepare. In fact, on one episode of a food TV show, a woman made a complete dinner and then asked her nephew to help her make dessert. What was so great about this segment of the show was the woman made dessert for the adults, and her nephew made the dessert for the kids. He did a fantastic job as well.

Cooking can be fun, but it also gives kids the opportunity to increase their learning skills too. For example, math would be involved when having to measure ingredients, cooking time from start to finish, and so on.

All of the major food network stars discuss how they learned to cook from their moms and are now teaching their children. Some of the star’s own children have TV shows of their own. Cooking with mom encompasses not only learning how to cook, but it’s also fun to hang around with mom and talk about different things, whether it is school-related or just general stuff. The result is a fabulous dinner and dessert for the entire family to enjoy.