Kids Pie Dough Tips

Pie dough can be daunting to make, but patience and practice are rewarded with flaky tender crusts. Crusts are the reason everyone loves pies.  First, all the dough ingredients must be cold. Pie dough needs time to chill, relax, and get flaky. Assembly all the ingredients on the counter. Using organic whole wheat pastry flour…

Kid Chef Sweet and Sour Veggies

Kids like this sweet and sour sauce with pineapple chunks. Pineapple is rich in fiber, vitamin C, and contains enzymes that are good for digestion. The breaded and roasted cauliflower florets are nuggets of flavor and nutrition, as cauliflower is full of abundant health benefits in its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, fiber, vitamin C, and…

Kids cook with Cauliflower

Cauliflower is an annual cool weather veggie in the cabbage family that kids can grow in their organic raised bed garden. Cauliflower is low in calories but filling as it is high in fiber, with abundant health benefits in its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients, vitamin C, and potassium. When the cauliflower head is 6 –…

Kid Chef Roasted Radishes

If kids have only tasted radishes raw, cooked radishes will come as a delicious surprise. The heat changes the pungent raw radish into a milder, creamy, tender root vegetable. The roasting mellows the spiciness of radishes, bringing out their sugars for a nutty flavor. Kids can line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Preheat…

Kids cook with Root Veggies

Kids can grow root veggies in their organic raised bed garden and have a source for soups, sauces, casseroles, and side dishes. Kids can plant carrots, potatoes, and onions in the fall in Southern California as companion plants in one raised bed in rich organic soil. These popular root veggies can be blended together with…

Kid Chef Creamy Garden Greens

When kids grow Swiss chard, kale, spinach, and beets in their organic raised bed garden, they can harvest the greens for a powerful boost of nutrition disguised as this comfort food dish. Garden greens contain antioxidants, iron, calcium, vitamins C, A, K, omega 3, as well as a good source of magnesium, potassium, iron, and…

Kid Chef Moroccan Spiced Rice

Kids love the flavors and aroma of the spices in this dish filled with fresh garden picked organic veggies. Organic whole grain brown rice is rich in protein and fiber, lowers cholesterol, and helps with stomach problems. The rainbow of veggies brings abundant nutrition. Brightly colored fruits and veggies are the magic secret for all…

Kid Chef Vegan Chocolate Pie

Kids can make this smooth, cool, and creamy chocolate pudding in a shortbread tart shell that will make any day a celebration.   For the shortbread pie crust, kids can mix 1 ½ cups flour, ⅓ cup sugar, ⅛ tsp salt in a large mixing bowl and slowly add ¾ cup cold vegan butter, a…

Kids cook with Chocolate

Kids can eat one ounce of dark chocolate a day with a 70-87% cacao for good health! Ancient Mayan healers proclaimed chocolate as being essential for good health and a cure for many illnesses. Scientists today have proven they were correct about cacao, but not about chocolate candy or other chocolate confectionaries, as these are…

Kid Chef Balsamic Roasted Veggies

Organic Balsamic Vinegar is made from fresh grapes being boiled with the juice, skins, seeds, and stems, unlike wine vinegar. To qualify as balsamic vinegar, it has to be aged at least 12 years in wooden kegs. When kids cook with balsamic vinegar, it gets sweeter, bringing out the sweetness in the organic veggies. Balsamic…