Tired of the same old dinners?  You plan the meals for one day this week.  Be sure you try a new food.  
Try some of the recipes below.  They are especially designed for kids who do the cooking!
 

  

Potions (baked potato/tuna)
Peanut Butter Cookies
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Delicious Chicken Drumsticks
Homemade Lemonade
Eggceptional Breakfasts
Donut Cookies
Ham Roll Ups

Ham Roll Ups -- submitted by Mrs. Chamberlain 

You will need.....

    1  8oz package of crescent rolls
    4  thin slices of deli ham
    4  thin slices of cheese (I use swiss)
    Mustard
    Sesame seeds

Make 4 rectangles with the dough.  Press the diagonal seam with your fingers to make the rectangle (two triangles make one rectangle).  You can roll the dough a little with a rolling pin to make it a bit bigger.  Then place a slice of ham on each rectangle of dough. Spread a little mustard on the ham and add a piece of cheese.
Carefully roll the dough from the short end to the short end, tucking all the ham and cheese in the dough, and pressing the end with your fingers. Roll the log in sesame seeds.  Slice each log into six to eight pieces.  Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.   Enjoy your snack!

   

Mrs. Vincent's Donut Cookies

You will need the following ingredients (take them all out and put them in your cooking area first):  
   
          4 eggs                                   1/2 cup milk
          2 tablespoons vanilla              3 teaspoons baking powder
          1 cup sugar                            1/2 cup vegetable oil
          4 1/2 cups flour                       1 1/2 teaspoons salt

Beat eggs with mixer, add milk, oil, vanilla and sugar.
Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt and gradually add to wet
mixture.
Shape the dough into donut shapes by rolling "snakes" with your hands and
forming O's on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 for 10 to 15 minutes.
Cool
Frost with a mixture of confectionary sugar and milk. You can color the
frosting with food coloring and add decorations like sprinkles on top.
                                   

 

Eggceptional Breakfasts   from Kids Cooking Slightly Messy Manual by Klutz Press

Ingredients:  2 eggs, pat of butter, salt and pepper.
Utensils: bowl, fork, small frying pan, spatula

1.Crack two eggs into a small bowl and mix with a fork.  Remove the little bits of egg shell that fell in.  
2. Melt a pat of butter in a frying pan over low heat and pour in the eggs.  Use your spatula to keep moving the eggs around so they cook evenly.
3. Different people like their eggs differently, so take yours out whenever they look done to you.  Shake on a little salt and pepper.  Careful, not too much!

Egg in a Frame

Ingredients:  1 egg, 1 slice of bread, 2 pats of butter
Utensils:  smalll frying pan, spatula, glass or cup

1. Cut a hole in the center of the bread with an upside-down drinking glass.
2.  Melt one pat of butter in the pan over low heat.  Toss in the bread and break the egg into the hole.  Don't worry if you break the yolk.  Cook until the bread is golden brown on the bottom.  (You can peek with the spatula).
3.  Turn the bread (with the egg) over, put the remaining butter in the pan and use your spatula to make sure it gets unter the toast.  Continue frying until the egg looks done, no more than a couple of minutes.

   

from Kids Cooking Slightly Messy Manual by Klutz Press

Homemade Lemonade

Ingredients:  1 lemon, 1 cup of cold water, 2 teaspoons of sugar, ice cubes
Utensils:  bowl, lemon juicer (makes it easier)

1.  Get your assistant to cut the lemon in half, then squeeze it with your hands (or your juicer if you have one) over a bowl.
2.  Add the water and sugar and mix it all up.  Then pour into two glasses and add the ice cubes.

   

from Alpha Bakery Gold Medal Childrens' Cookbook

Delicious Chicken Drumsticks

Ingredients: 1/2 cup gold medal flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon paprika, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 6 chicken drumsticks (about 1 1/2 pounds) 1/4 cup margarine (melted and cooled)
Utensils: 8x8x2 square pan, mixing bowl

1.  Heat the over to 425*
2.  Mix flour, salt, paprika, and pepper in a bowl.
3.  Dip chicken drumsticks into margarine, roll in flour mixture to coat.
4.  Arrange in ungreased pan
5. Bake uncovered until done, about 50 minutes.
Makes 6 drumsticks.

   

from Alpha Bakery Gold Medal Childrens' Cookbook

Ice Cream Sandwiches

Ingredients:   Peanut Butter Cookies (below), 1 pint of slightly softened ice cream, 6 ounce package of semisweet chocolate chips, 2 tablespoons shortening.
Utensils:  jelly roll pan, tablespoon, plastic wrap

1.  Bake peanut butter cookies; cool.
2.  For each ice-cream sandwich, press 1 slightly rounded tablespoon on ice cream between two cookies; place in jelly roll pan.  Freeze until firm.
3.  Melt chips and shortening, stirring occasionally; let stand 2 minutes.  Dip half of each sandwich into chocolate.  Place in pan; freeze until firm.  Stor wrapped in plastic wrap.  Makes 15.  

 

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:  1/2 cup each of granulated sugar and packed brown sugar, 1/2 cup of peanut butter, 1/4 cup each of shortening and margarine (softened), 1 egg, 1 1/4 cups of Gold Medal flour, 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Utensils:  cookie sheet, bowl
1.  Heat over to 375*.  Mix all ingredients.  Shape into 1 1/4 inch balls.  
2.  Place 3 inches apart on cookie sheet.
3.  Flatten in crisscross with floured fork.  Bake until brown, 9-11 minutes.

 
 

from Pigtails and Frogslegs Neiman Marcus

Potions (for tuna salad and baked potato lovers)

Ingredients:  4 large baking potatoes, 1 cup mayonnaise, 1/2 cup cheddar cheese (grated), 1/4 cup green pepper (chopped) 1/4 cup pimentos (chopped), 1/4 cup onions (chopped), 2 (6 1/2 oz.) cans of tuna (drained), 2 tablespoons cheddar cheese (grated), 1/4 cup mayonnaise, 1 egg white (beaten)
Utensils:  mixing bowl,
1.  Bake potatoes at 350* for 1 1/2 hours.  Scoop out pulp and mash slightly.
2.  Mix with one cup mayonnaise with chees, green pepper, pimentos, onion, and tuna.  Pack into hollow potato.  Heat thoroughly.
3.  Combine 2 tablespoons cheddar chees, 1/4 cup mayonaisse, and egg white.  Mix thoroughly.
4.  Spoon over potatoes and brown slightly.  Serves 4

   

This page last updated: 11/13/2004