We started this in the Spring, and this summer everyone is excited to do the whole thing!
And here’s a great opportunity to try it with your kids (and give you some peace of mind about your kids in the kitchen)!
With the older kids, I had time to teach them things in the kitchen, but as the house has filled up with children, I just don’t have the time anymore. So, they tended to make some simple things over and over which the older kids have passed on or which they miss from their childhoods.
Like now, when Clara is home from college: they spend a lot of time making whipped cream…to put on oatmeal…on the ice cream which she keeps bringing in…in hot chocolate…in coffee (which I DO appreciate, must admit)…
BUT THIS IS SIMPLY A FANTASTIC SOLUTION:
Katie Kimball, who tells us she has “all the Glory Stories” and most of our other Holy Heroes stuff, has a blog and a new online video course to teach kids how to cook REAL FOOD (not just, well…you know what I mean), and the kids thought it was GREAT this last spring.
And it’s really helpful to me! With six kids still at home…if I have just one of them cooking every day…and then we have leftovers: I can get the whole week covered with real great food and hardly any effort from me!
And they also want to do the shopping to get the items they want to cook. I save time there, too, or at least have company in the store.
And here’s another GREAT THING: her course begins RIGHT NOW with a FREE “knife skills” online course which will relieve your mind as well as save you time!!
I like salads–but was always a bit worried about not only the salad-maker child cutting the veggies, but also the other children who wander into the kitchen and offer to help (or are sometimes recruited to help to speed things along because someone is really really really hungry so in a really really really big hurry).
We’ve used the knife skills videos already, and Katie does a great job of teaching in language a child can UNDERSTAND and REMEMBER (that’s the key right there, isn’t it?). Fun, great to watch other kids, and exciting to be able to safely step up to help mom.
I won’t have to worry about getting my salad and fresh vegetables now. Therese is the designated salad-maker and can cut and chop and mince safely.
Sign up with the button here for the FREE knife skills for kids class, enjoy, and tell me what you think in the comments.
Oh: Katie sent us this quick overview video (the course was all videotaped with multiple cameras, very professionally, too):
Katie blogs over at KitchenStewardship.com and has posted a ton of good stuff about food and kids and kids & food.
So sign up for the free knife skills video course, then don’t forget to sign up for the complete “Kids Cook Real Food” course when registration opens next week (registration open May 30 – June 6).
REMEMBER: the free knife skills videos will be up for you to watch anytime THROUGH JUNE 6—then they will be taken down.
PS And, yes: we are looking into bringing back these fun Holy Heroes chef hats which we had a few years ago. Maybe even a nice Holy Heroes apron, too.
Ken Davison created Glory Stories, which became a weekly radio series heard globally on the Ave Maria Satellite Radio Network and EWTN’s radio network, WEWN. In 2007, he and his wife, Kerri, founded Holy Heroes–and their children stepped in to help shortly thereafter to create the online “Adventures” for Advent, Lent, Spiritual Adoption, and Marian Consecration.
