Description
Book SynopsisWhat’s cooking?
At the Cool Food School, we help children young and not so young make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners: safely, and with yumminess guaranteed.
From Morning Munchies to Yummy Dinners, Snackalious quick bites to Lunchbox Fillers, Chop, Cook, Yum! is packed with over fifty tried-and-tested, easy-to-follow recipes. Cooking is a pizza cake with this uniquely Irish cookbook for kids!
A fun and informative first cookbook for children, written by Deirdre Doyle of Cool Food School.
Cool Food School was established by BTEC-qualified Health Coach Deirdre with the mission to teach children of all ages about the joys of healthy eating. She travels to schools, preschools and parties to teach children the value of eating healthily through a range of fun workshops and camps.
Trade ReviewTeaching children about food through fun and interactive workshops is at the heart of what Deirdre Doyle and her team at the Cool Food School do. Their workshops in schools and pre-schools have helped thousands of children to learn more about healthy eating and how to make positive choices around food
* Irish Times *
‘well worth picking up for the mini chef in your life’
-- Bibliocook
In her colourful, beautifully laid out new cookbook, Chop, Cook, Yum! Deirdre Doyle, of the Cool Food School, helps children young and not so young to make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners, safely and with yumminess guaranteed!
-- RTE Guide
Deirdre Doyle clearly knows her onions, not to mention her cannellini and haricot beans - and knows how to entice children to prepare and eat healthy food. Anyone that names their recipe ‘Beans to Make you go Pop’ is heading in the right direction to attract young people’s attention, particularly if their instructions come with this warning: “Keep all the windows open.” A health coach and mother of three, Doyle has taught thousands of children about food and cooking since opening her Cool Food School in Co Wicklow in 2018. She continues the fun in her new recipe book, in which the titles of the dishes are a hoot. There’s the Irish ‘Hummus Ata Tu’, the anger-recipe for Bash-it-about Chicken, or ‘It’s a Pizza Cake’ with add-your-own toppings, and the descriptive Spinach and Cheese Egg Muffin Thingies, for when you’ve run out of fancy recipe names … the aim is to inspire in young readers an appreciation of what they are eating, where their food comes from, and how it is prepared. The topic of seasonal eating provides food for thought as Doyle weighs the benefits of enjoying fruits and vegetables as they ripen locally and naturally versus the costs to both environment and stored produce of demanding strawberries in Ireland in January. Her recipes are graded by age range in terms of difficulty of preparation, with a symbol indicating where adult help or supervision is required
-- Evening Echo
Help children young and not so young make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners: safely, and with yumminess guaranteed … Cooking is a pizza cake with this uniquely Irish cookbook for kids
-- Irish Daily Star
beautiful new book, lots of delicious recipes
-- Neven Maguire
Perfect for young chefs everywhere
-- Fallen Star Stories
tried and tested recipes that children can make themselves
-- Irish Times
a great basic cookbook to help readers aged 9+ to grasp the basics of creating their own culinary delights
-- RTEjr Book Club
Table of ContentsIntroduction 6
Meet the Kitchen Gang 6
How To Use This Book 7
Stuff You’ll Need and How To Use It 8
Staying Safe in the Kitchen 10
Top Tips For Cooking 12
Morning Munchies 15
Vanilla Porridge 17
Porridge Cake 19
Easy-peasy Oaty Bread 20
Lazy Porridge 23
Scrummy Scrambled Eggs 24
Bestest Banana Pancakes 27
Gorgeous Granola 28
How Do You Smoothie? 31
Smoothie Planner 32
Chia Seed Jam 34
Eat the Rainbow 36
Tasty Toast Toppers 38
Lunchbox Fillers 39
All About Sandwiches 40
Hummus Atá Tú? 43
Spinach and Cheese Egg
Muffin Thingies 44
Totally Tasty Chicken Wrap 47
Waterford Tuna Blaa 48
Snackalicious 49
Bonkers-easy Banana Sushi 51
Fantastic Flapjacks 52
Powered-up Energy Balls 55
Cheesy Broccoli Quesadilla 56
Wanna Pizza My Bagel? 59
Courgette Pizza Bites 60
Dinky Apple Doughnuts 63
Totally Terrific Tomato Toasties 64
Blurry, Flurry, Snacks in a Hurry 67
Cool Cucumber Butterflies 68
Yummy Dinners 69
Cleverest Tomato Sauce 71
Brilliant Bolognese 72
Tasty Tomato Soup 73
Tomato Pinwheels 73
Beans To Make You Go Pop! 74
Awesome Chicken Nuggets 76
Winning Wedges 78
Mighty Meatloaf 81
Bash-it-about Chicken 82
Bottom-of-the-fridge Frittata 84
It’s a Pizza Cake! 86
How to Stay Healthy: The Four Pillars of Health 88
The Salmon of Knowledge with Cauliflower Rice 91
Deadly Desserts 93
Greeky Fruity Yoghurt 94
Fruit Surprise 95
Free Food Crumble 96
Don’t Make Ice Cream – Make Nice Cream! 98
Big Brain Cheesecake with Wexford Strawberries 101
Banana Boat with Chocolate Peanut Butter Sauce 102
Power Pops 104
Celebration Time 105
St Patrick’s Day 106
Pancakes Glas Blasta 107
Paddy’s Day Soup 108
Easter 110
Eggcellent Easter Muffins 110
Leftover Easter Egg Cookies 113
Halloween 114
Scary Sweet Potatoes 114
Chocolate Apple Mummies 116
Seasonal Eating 118
Christmas 120
Toy Show Hot Chocolate 120
Christmas Chocolate Bark 122
Index 124
