Kid Friendly Recipes
By: Christine Steendahl
Child friendly recipes can be fun to create. Fruits and vegetables can be used in recipes for kids. These ingredients can provide a fun element to children’s meals. Finding child recipes that children can create for themselves gives them a feeling of accomplishment. Let the children select the fruits and veggies that you utilize for the child recipes listed below.
Getting kids to eat fruit can be easy when we make it adventurous and entertaining. Since fruit should be a constant in every family’s menu, let the kids choose which fruits they need to create a cool and exciting fruit pizza masterpiece.
You may be surprised by the fruits they pick at the farmer’s market.
Let the children choose which fruits and veggies they would like for their at
home project.
Select interesting or colorful fruits at the store or farmers’ market,
then turn the little ones loose making imaginative faces on this tasty fruit pizza.
Odds are, they’ll snack as they go–and love what they taste.
Select fruits in a variety of hues and sizes. Let the children decorate the pizza with fun faces or create other shapes on this colorful and fun pizza.
Ingredients.
*Ready to bake piecrust
Filling
*1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese
*1tablespoon sugar
*1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
*1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
*1 tablespoon 1% milk
Toppings
Select strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The choices for making shapes are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can opt for pineapples, mandarin oranges or any fruit they like.
Instructions:
1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions
2. Unfold it onto a large cookie sheet or pizza pan.
3. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them slightly so that they’ll stay rolled up.
4. Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places(allowing air to escape).
5. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or
until it’s lightly browned.
6. Remove from the crust from the oven
To Prepare the Filling:
1. Whisk together cream cheese ,sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice
2. Add just enough milk to the mix to make it spreadable onto the crust.
*Allow the crust to cool.
*Smooth the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula,
*Smooth to the edge of the crust
Now its time for the children to get involved.
*Let the children to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture.
Don’t worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun.
Children may opt to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations go wild.
Spanish Food How To Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup 1
By: paramjit
Home-made soups are so good for you - all that nourishing stock and chock-a-block full of vitamins and minerals.
But … who on earth could face boiling bones for hours on end during the scorching Spanish summer weather, not to mention preparing the soup once the stock is made? I don´t think it would tickle anybody´s fancy to then have to tuck into a piping-hot soup!
For this reason, the Spanish came up with their wonderful, ice-cold soup - gazpacho - beautifully colorful, packed with goodness, cheap and simple to prepare, no cooking and … most important of all, an absolute delight to drink.
Traditional gazpacho originates from romantic Andalucia - that large, exotic southerly region of Spain which is home to such extensive Arabic influence.
The chilled, raw soup was originally made by pounding bread and garlic with tomatoes, cucumber and peppers but, nowadays, your electric blender renders this effortless! Olive oil endows it with a smooth, creamy consistency and vinegar adds a refreshing tang - just what you need when life gets too hot to handle!
The spicy soup should be served in true Spanish style with small bowls of accompaniments - finely chopped peppers, cucumber, onion … even hard-boiled eggs and croutons, if you feel up to it! Guests will then sprinkle what appeals to them on the soup.
Traditional gazpacho is tomato-based, with most Spanish families having developed their own, unique recipes. However, nowadays, you will also find gazpacho recipes that have nothing to do with tomatoes - white, almond-based gazpachos, fruit-based gazpachos, etc.
Do you suffer from insomnia? Could be that drinking gazpacho is the answer, for in Pedro Almodovar´s 1987 film “Mujeres Al Borde De Un Ataque De Nervios”, various characters help themselves to the soup and promptly fall asleep!
However, don´t fall asleep just yet as you haven´t read over the recipe!
Ingredients for 4 servings:
- 4 ripe tomatoes
- 1 onion
- ½ red pepper
- ½ green pepper
- ½ cucumber
- 3 cloves garlic
- 50 g bread
- 3 dessertspoons vinegar
- 8 dessertspoons olive oil
- Water
- Salt/pepper
- ¼ chilli pepper (optional)
Garnishings:
- 2 hard-boiled eggs
- ½ finely chopped onion
- ½ finely chopped red pepper
- ½ finely chopped green pepper
- ½ finely chopped cucumber
Method:
1. Break up bread and soak in water for 30 minutes.
2. Skin tomatoes, remove seeds and stalks from peppers.
3. Peel cucumber, onion and garlic.
4. Chop onion, garlic, tomatoes, peppers and cucumber.
5. Place in electric blender.
6. Squeeze out excess water from bread and add to blender.
7. Add oil and vinegar.
8. Blend well.
9. If necessary, add sufficient water for soup-like consistency.
10. Pour into a bowl with ice cubes.
11. Fridge for a couple of hours.
12. Serve in bowls, with garnishings in separate dishes.
