Reddit mentions: The best children cookbooks

Hi! Sorry this took a while, I am forgetful!!

Blogs:

www.budgetbytes.com (hands down my favourite, this one has the step by step photos)

www.eatingwell.com

http://www.skinnytaste.com/

www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com (lightened up desserts!)

http://therecipecritic.com/

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/ (not always as healthy/light but there are some truly delicious recipes on this blog!)


Cookbooks:

Clueless in the Kitchen
This book, and the other books in the Clueless cooking series (there's a vegetarian one and a baking one also) are geared towards late teens/early twenties very novice cooks. I was given this one and the baking one by my mom when I was about 15 I think, and honestly I still regularly use some of the recipes in them! There aren't pictures but there are thorough instructions on all sorts of things (for example, beside the Basic Roast Chicken recipe there is a sidebar of how to prepare a whole chicken for roasting and how to cut it apart for serving), and a little humour tossed in there as well.

Crazy Plates/Looneyspoons
The link takes you to a compilation of the author's best recipes across 2 or 3 different cookbooks - these books are admittedly from the low fat days, but they also focused on total calorie counts (and give you an estimated count per serving at the end of each recipe!) so what I do is just skip low fat versions of anything they suggest and otherwise follow the recipes. There's a lot of tasty stuff in there!

Other stuff:

Jamie Oliver's Home Cooking Skills I've only poked around this site a little bit but it seems like a great resource for people who are newer to cooking. There are videos that show particular cooking techniques, along with recipes that give you practice with those techniques so you can learn as you go. Jamie Oliver's been pretty focused on healthy eating for quite a while so I would assume most of the recipes should be fairly healthy, but I haven't looked the site over fully to be sure.

Also, seriously, crock pots are the best. A little bit of effort at the beginning of your day and then by the time you've worked all day and come home exhausted you have something delicious just waiting for you to get home and eat it. (If you are home all day when you use it you have to suffer through smelling delicious slowly cooking food all damned day without being able to pick at it lol.) Apparently Instant Pots are the new thing, those are combination crock pots and pressure cookers (for when you want things to be speedier). I don't have one yet but they sound even more handy than crock pots!

I hope some of this is helpful to you!

My 3.5 year old daughter loves helping in the kitchen. We started with letting her use spoons and spatulas to "mix" things in bowls. Now we've progressed to giving her butter knives to chop up veggies. She's great at chopping mushrooms, because they're easy to cut.

We also let her use the measuring cups and spoons. She loves doing that, because there are so many different sizes, and they all look the very similar. We also let her decorate cakes, cupcakes, and other deserts that we make using whatever decorating things we have, but she loves using pink or multi-colored sprinkles.

We also make sure to let her taste the things she's preparing so that she has an idea of why combining the ingredients works. I'm not sure she really "gets" that part of cooking yet, but she will given enough time.

Another thing we did was get her a 2nd hand play kitchen. For birthdays and Christmas gifts our friends & family have given her play fruit, veggies, place settings, etc. Mostly Melissa & Doug stuff. We also save our old mac & cheese, oatmeal, cracker, etc. boxes that we stock in her cupboard so she has things to prepare in her kitchen.

Finally, we got her a Sesame Street Let's Cook cook book. She enjoys handing us the cook book like a restaurant menu, asking us what we want, and then she prepares it in her kitchen and serves it. She really enjoys when we ask her to pick a recipe out, and then we actually make it with her in the kitchen.

My wife (and me too, to an extent) enjoy cooking, and it's always been her goal to get our daughter(s) into the kitchen with her.

Hey! I'm from California, lived there for over 20 years until this past December! I lived an hour east of SF, and am pretty familiar with it.

Things to do in SF:

• The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, across the Golden Gate. I volunteered here for 3 years, it's the best. It'll be busy when you go, there are tons of elephant seals, sea lions, and maybe even fur seals being cared for!
  
  
• Chinatown. SF has the largest Chinatown in the whole US, and it's really something spectacular to see. Tons of shops, lots of great black-market electronics and interesting food.
  
  
• The Castro. Tons of super fun and overt gay stuff. Posters of male strippers in a large percentage of windows. Occasionally a man in a boa walking down across the street.
  
  
• COIT Tower - a beautiful little landmark, with a great view of the city and if you're lucky a view of SF's famous WILD PARROTS!
  
  
• Crazy Horse Gentleman's Club. Girls, girls girls. And stuff. The place where I both saw and touched my first completely naked lady.
  
  
• Pier 39 is kind of a tourist trap, but it's pretty great if you've never been. The Aquarium of the Bay there is really fantastic, it's where I took my girlfriend /u/MeghanAM on our first ever date. Views of wild sea lions there are abundant as well.
  
  I'm not as versed in LA, though I have been there a few times. I really highly suggest The Capitan Theater and adjoining Disney Soda Fountain and Studio Store. All kinds of amazing Disney stuff for sale, and as if that weren't enough, one-of-a-kind Disney-themed ice cream creations. It's the best.
  
  California Dreamin'! My item!

First, it's really cool that your employer did that!

Second, I agree that kids would prefer physical gifts (as opposed to passes). I don't know much about what's available in Canadian winters, but do you all go to indoor swimming pools open year-round? If so, you can get gifts related to swimming - new swimming suits, fun pool noodles, and inflatable pool toys like this swan. I can see them playing with the inflatable swan around the house too. :)

For other winter sports, do they ice skate? Snowboard? Ski? You can put your funds toward one of those and any related accessories. I'm hoping beanies, gloves, and scarves related to those outdoor sports can count.

If you have a big backyard, a trampoline would be cool if you can get the company to approve of it!

What about nutritional health? There are a lot of kits for kids to learn how to cook, along with cookbooks designed for kids. Pair it with a grocery shopping day led by the girls! Maybe you can throw in some cute aprons.

Also, I think giving them bikes over the winter would be fine. Same goes for roller blades and scooters. While not usable right away, there's no reason you can't pair those with smaller gifts they can enjoy on Xmas day.

I have a group of em, especially if you want any! i love love love the penny books. any of these would just make my skirt fly up.

• Mexican Family Cooking
  
  
• Healthy Thai Cooking
  
  
• Cooking the Lebanese way
  
  
• Saved by Soup
  
  
• W&S Soups and Stews
  
  
• W&S Salad Collection
  
  
• W&S Pasta Collection
  
  
• W&S Vegetable Collection
  
  
• Slugs in Love
  
  
• The Jungle
  
  Fun fact, majority of the Williams-Sonoma books have a penny option, and they have a ton! if you like great cookbooks like i do :D i figured i'd give you a big list so you can add anything you like and get yourself something nice :D

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If you want to pick up a cook book, Clueless in the Kitchen turned out to be a good cookbook for a newbie like me. The name is a little cheesy but it had great tips and instructions.

Also, youtube has most (maybe all) of Alton Brown's Good Eats. Super informative, easy to understand and I learned a lot from those shows.

I'm not a parent, but I love to cook, but if I could offer up some advice... If you haven't already, try getting him involved in the cooking process, even if it's just helping you prepare small ingredients. Getting him involved and having him put effort into creating his meal might be able to make it easier or more fun to try new things. When I was little my mom got me a kids cookbook that had all these cool looking meals inside. My favorite to make with her were Cheez-it crusted chicken fingers that we baked in the oven.

Edit: I did a quick google search and found an updated version of the cookbook she got me, if you're interested.

Basic cooking is craftsmanship. A pro only needs a hunting knife and a kettle but I recommend you to buy a book, it's easier to work with in the beginning than scrolling through a website while the cooking water overflows. Here is an example. The book has step-by-step pictures for every recipe

Anyways, here is an easy recipe for a basic tomato sauce:

1 onion

1 garlic glove

2 red chili

2 tomatoes (optional)

1 tbsp (tablespoon) olive oil

3 tbsp tomato mark

2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

2 cans of tomato

1/2 cup instant broth

2 pinches of sugar

1 pound spaghetti

parmigiano

(basic stuff you'll need for many recipes and it's easily stored)

1. Take a sharp knife and cut the chili lengthwise in thin slices. The green stuff and the seeds are not needed. Give them to your cat or throw them away but don't touch your eyes. It will hurt.
   
   
2. Dice the onions and the garlic glove. I hope you don't need an explanation for that, but if you do take a look here: http://youtu.be/WW4r5GW-e7M
   
   
3. Take a pot or pan and heat up the oil over a middle flame. When you feel the heat (or use a droplet of water: when it crackles you're good to go), throw in the chili, garlic and the onion. Go to the next step when the onion turned translucent (it looks like glass then, - but it's not a brownish glass yet).
   
   
4. Stir in the tomato mark until every spot in the pot knows what's coming to it and deglaze the mixture with 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar (basically you just throw it in to lower the temperatur real quick but deglazing sounds cooler)
   
   
5. You've almost made it. Pour in the content tomato cans, the broth and the sugar and make sure it doesn't boil to much. 5 bubbles every 1/2 minutes are enough. Season the sauce the salt and pepper. Start with half a spoon and add another pinch until you're satisfied.
   
   
6. Cook the noodles
   
   
7. (optional) Cut the 2 tomatoes into small dices (cut in half and scoop out the giblet)

I've heard of cinnabons, although we used to have a place in the mall... not sure if it's there anymore but it was called aunty anne's or something? Well you could buy a large cupful of cinnabite things with icing to dip them in. it's like a mouthgasm in a cup. Although I got that idea from a recipe book I had a few years ago.

EDIT: Here is the book I got it in middle school, and it's actually pretty good. The chocolate spice cake recipe is fantastic, that was a big hit at thanksgiving one year. (also, that page is practically glued shut with ingredients, lol)

Roald Dahl's Completely Revolting Recipes: A Collection of Delumptious Favourites is absolutely charming!

Cook It Together is beautifully illustrated and is a very good starting point.

Good luck! :D

This book is written for teenagers, but I'm in my thirties and still use it all the time. It's got a section on how to do basic stuff - chop anything, shop for groceries, clean your garbage disposal - as well as a ton of recipes, some of them even sorta classy. It's perfect.

Try a cook book like this. He'll have fun & it's not a lecture.
http://www.amazon.com/Emerils-Theres-Chef-Recipes-Everyone/dp/0688177069/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260181803&sr=1-3

As others have noted, the instigator was the mother-in-law.

But beyond that, who does most of the cooking & dish washing in your house? What about laundry? The behaviors you and your husband model & live will have a far greater impact than any book, movie or film will ever have. If you really want to modify his perception, you will probably have to swap choirs with your husband and have him do more cooking, dish washing & laundry. This will leave you to do what are considered some of the more masculine tasks such as mowing the lawn, raking the leaves, plumbing, electrical work etc.

Also keep in mind that his identification of masculine & feminine traits are not necessarily a bad thing. Walking into school in a dress would quickly get him beat up. Certain masculine traits will make him more attractive to females as he matures. Of course, it will be difficult to separate those from stereotypes that really don't matter.

Bottom line: How you live will have a far greater impact on his attitudes about gender roles than anything else.

My mother bought me this book, ironically released 9 days before my sixth birthday. I read through the book and cooked the enclosed Spaghetti and Meatballs dish a few days that birthday, and I'm pretty sure it's been the best thing to ever happen to me. I say it's ironic because I'm pretty sure my life would have taken a drastically different turn had it been released on the 11th of April instead.

this one really got me started as a kid. Lots of good, basic recipes, and they explain things really well, and make it fun.

Teaching your child to cook is a wonderful gift to give him! Take it from the woman who just taught her husband how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. :/

So here is my item...Wookiee Cookies: A Star Wars Cookbook by Robin Davis http://www.amazon.com/dp/0811821846/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_XxYetb0HJ97TZ

My BFF and I checked it out from the library back in 2000 in 8th grade and somehow she remembered and found it on Amazon for my last Birthday. Not only are the recipes hilarious, they are really good. And yes, it's $0.72 over your budget. As for me, you can surprise me.

Maybe you could do a Jedi Juice Bar to see which Jedi would win?!

This was one of the first things I learned how to actually cook from scratch, when I was in college. I had this book called Fanny at Chez Panisse, which is kind of a children's book about growing up in a restaurant and kind of a beginner cookbook. It is lovely, and I highly recommend it to people who love food and want to learn how to make it for themselves.

I always liked this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nosh-Students-Student-Cookbook-Recipe-ebook/dp/B00H000I50/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395433928&sr=8-1&keywords=joy+may+nosh+for+students

Joy May's Nosh 4 Students - it's a mother's recipe book of simple, healthy, filling things that she originally wrote out for her son, who was a fresher at University. It's got price lists, accurate pictures, and even has a section on how to keep a well stocked cupboard on a budget.

This is the only Star Wars item on my wishlist but its definitely one of the most awesome items on my wishlist. I mean, it's cooking and STAR WARS. How great is that?

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I've got 3 awesome things for ya!

Darth Vader spatula!

Storm Trooper spatula!

Wookie Cookies cookbook!

• A CD (or digital streaming service) of The Planets, Op. 32, by Gustav Holst, cued up and ready to play. (At the very least, you absolutely need to have the first movement Mars, the Bringer of War ready to go.)
  
• A jar that everyone who quotes Star Wars has to throw 25¢ into, everyone who quotes Mr. Plinkett has to throw in a $1, and everyone who quotes Spaceballs has to throw in $5.
  
• Snacks. Paid for by the quote jar.

I hate to tell /u/grifflightning but Galaxy's Edge is going to have completely straight-faced in-universe food item names a la Avatar Land, where the most adventurous item name is '"Teylu" all-beef hot dog', the hamburger baos are called "Pods" to make them seem future-y, and the signature snack item is called "Pongu Lumpia", which is Na'vi for "Party Snack". They wouldn't touch something like "Eywa-ffles" or "Na'vitamin water" with a ten foot pole.

If he wanted to make pun food he should have gotten hired as the menu writer at the Backlot Express a few years ago, because it could really use some of that punning energy instead of the weaksauce "Royal Guard Burger", "Dark Side Chicken and Waffles", and "Galactic Salad". They weren't even trying!

(Also there's a whole two books of SW food puns in this vein, headlined by Wookiee Cookies: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Cook-Book-Galactic/dp/0811821846)

I like Fairy Cooking but it's not really independent-level for her age. The recipes are enjoyable though.

pasta/rice hodgepodge sounds delicious.

I also got recommended this book recently.

It says it's free but it shows as $1.01 CDN. I thought you would like it because you have a lot of HP stuff.

check this book. it has simple to follow recipes, plus it teaches you about kitchen tools and techniques- great foundation!

Quite possibly the best book title of all time.

Eggs in a basket are in the 1950's "Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls" Some other great stuff in there too.

http://www.amazon.com/Betty-Crockers-Cookbook-Boys-Girls/dp/0764526340

I remember Yoda Soda and Wookie Cookies when I was a kid! My friend and I used to make them all the time! We had come across the book in a library once.

ETA: http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-Cook-Book/dp/0811821846

Try this Lunch recipe book free today on Kindle!

Is it better than Cooking with Pooh?

Given that it's retailing for $68.99 on Amazon, I'd call it an inspired book title.

Get the cookbook "Clueless in the Kitchen and have them make something out of it for some other people.
I was a cook for 7 years and I still find myself going to that book when I need an idea for something quick and easy to cook.

I suppose that all hinges on them having access to a kitchen though.

It only works if it is someone else's poop. Also this. 100% safe for work.

This is a great beginners book. It was out of print for a few years and it might go out of print again soon unfortunately.

http://www.amazon.com/Clueless-Kitchen-Cookbook-Teens/dp/1554078245/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464879138&sr=1-1&keywords=clueless+in+the+kitchen

More like this one.

Made me think of http://www.amazon.com/Wookiee-Cookies-Star-Wars-Cookbook/dp/0811821846 got it from my uncle (who is a huge Star Wars fan too) when I was like 12 or something.

This book is awesome. It teaches you how to do everything form how to stock your kitchen, cut different things, meal plan and much more. I would also recommend budgetbytes.com

Clueless in the Kitchen (The Clueless series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1554078245/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_x4KHyb4SPE1P1

My wife bought this book for our kids without noticing the nasty, "alternative" meaning ...
http://www.amazon.ca/Winnie-Pooh-Cooking/dp/1570822611

Well, to be a pedantic martinet, they aren't supposed to be doing that because IT'S AGAINST THE RULES. But, I know if you get on the right side of the right people, you can publish a Star Wars themed cookbook or a Star Trek board game... I think that most of the small-time stuff is ignored because the folks in charge don't want the bad press of hassling someone knitting Tauntaun dolls and if the big-time stuff can be monetized with a minimum of lawyering, then that's what happens.

But as far as printing these for sale, Eph would be rolling the dice and hoping that those in charge of brand value and etc would keep turning a blind eye rather than get trigger happy on lawsuits. There's way too many mixed metaphors in there, but I think the point makes sense.

Priceless amazon reviews too.

Clueless in the Kitchen is a great resource if you're just starting out. It's very basic and written for teenagers/college kids who are just starting on their own and don't have a whole bunch of fancy shit or money to just go out and buy stuff. The first section explains basic techniques, tells you what staples you should have lying around, what's cheaper to make yourself or buy in bulk, and the recipes are all very budget friendly and several of them are just guidelines for using leftovers to make something new.

And of course, you can't forget this one either.

> Mr. Brown

Don't forget the classic

For people on diets high in Pooh

More on this topic

Cooking with Pooh

A quick google search just comes up with the same pic and lots of people asking if it's real. Here's one of our own http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/fcdff/poopytime/.

This one's for real at least: "Cooking with Pooh" http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Pooh-Cookie-Cutters-Adventures/dp/1570822611

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Cooking With Pooh: http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-With-Pooh-Cutters-Adventures/dp/1570822611

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Pooh-Cookie-Cutters-Adventures/dp/1570822611

If you havent they have a recipe here

Link to Amazon

Would it be this one?

Wookie Cookies cookbook.

This was this years white elephant gift.

Clueless in the Kitchen

I started off with this book.

Cooking with Pooh

http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-Cook-Book/dp/0811821846

Just buy the book

I prefer this version

It's the Betty Crocker cookbook for kids, which explains the frequent appearance of Bisquick, too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0764526340?pc_redir=1411894605&robot_redir=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1570822611?pc_redir=1412268011&robot_redir=1

Alternatively: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1570822611/ref=mp_s_a_1_cc_1?qid=1453396628&sr=1-1-catcorr&pi=AC_SX220_SY330_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=cooking+with+pooh+book

Because Yoda Soda already exists and is its own, different drink. I'm not kidding. I remember it from the Wookie Cookie Cookbook

I think the parents must have a copy of Wookie Cookies: A Star Wars Cookbook and yes I also own the sequel. In my defense I bought them with my wife after we were married.

Make something from the Star Wars cookbook with him.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Star-Wars-Cook-Book/dp/0811821846

Then watch Return of the Jedi with him. (Watch A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back first.) After the movie, excuse yourself "to the restroom", but really you're changing into this.
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Enjoy your ring.

I am sure some of you may want to buy it, its $12.91 on amazon or $14.99 on Think Geek.

Also there is a second one now The Star Wars Cookbook II -Darth Malt and More Galactic Recipes $12.49

The Star Wars Cookbooks (volume 1 and 2) have some amusing food name puns, too.

(Seriously, "Darth Malt.")

And for the Star Wars fan that doesn't know how to cook. . .

Clueless in the Kitchen: A Cookbook for Teens (The Clueless series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1554078245/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kjf5BbQD1PD00

I highly recommend this book for people with no skills. There's also a baking companion. Step by step, substitutions, humor.

I may be able to help!

Star Wars Cook Book - Wookie Cookies

Cookie Cutters

R2D2 Measuring Cups

Vader Apron

That was the name of the first Star Wars Cookbook. There are at least 3 that I know of.

Reminds me of the old star wars cookbooks. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0811821846/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-3&qid=1368901515

Wookie Cookies. It's not bad, but it's all kids food, and it's the worst cookbook that I have.