After faith in God, solid moral training and encouraging a love for reading, I don’t think there is anything more important to teach kids than to enjoy doing useful things with their hands, including cooking and gardening.
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We eat this recipe often during Lent. I purchase shrimp on sale during the year and freeze it for the season. Everyone LOVES it except my youngest who declared that the Devil made seafood (not a fish lover).
SHRIMP CASSEROLE
1 1/2 cups uncooked long grain rice
1 1/2 pounds medium size raw shrimp (or what have you)
1/2 cup butter
1 green bell pepper, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3 celery ribs, shopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 (10 3/4 oz cream of celery soup)
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup shredded Cheddar-colby cheese
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
Prepare the rice according to package. Peel and devein shrimp. Melt butter in a large skillet/pot over medium heat. Add bell pepper and the next four ingredients until tender. Stir in soup, shrimp, salt and pepper and cook until te shrimp turns pink (about 3 or so minutes). Combine the shrimp mixture with the rice and mix well. Pour into a lightly greased 13x9 inch pan or one close. Sprinkle the cheese and breadcrumbs (we actually leave out the breadcrumbs but I am using the original recipe). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes till cheese is melted.
***You can use the same recipe and use 3 cups diced chicken/or turkey and two cans of cream of chicken soup for another style dish.
****I always hesitate when posting a seafood type dish especially one with the “holy trinity”. Please Bayou and Cajun freepers.. be kind!
I tried a little something new last night. I marinated my chicken breasts in yogurt, green curry paste, lime juice, garlic, salt, pepper, ginger & honey for a few hours and then put them on the grill with some squash and zucchini. Then made a basic white sauce and seasoned with curry powder, ginger, salt, pepper, garlic. Put it all over pasta. My 3 year old tasted it and decided he wasn’t hungry. My husband and I thought it was pretty okay for something a little different to have once in a while.
My recipe for basic white sauce:
1 Tbsp butter
1 1/2 Tbsp flour
1 cup milk
Melt butter over medium heat. Add flour and whisk until smooth. Add a small amount of milk and whisk until smooth. Keep adding milk in small amounts and whisking until all milk is added and sauce has no lumps. Bring to a boil, whisking constantly, and boil for 1 min. From here you can do whatever king of seasoning you like. Add garlic and parm cheese for an “alfredo”. Add cheddar or your other favorite cheese and a touch of dry mustard, garlic, salt & pepper and add to macaroni for mac & cheese. Add ground beef, salt, pepper garlic and serve over toast for SOS. Lots of possibilities.
I HAD that cookbook! The Betty Crocker Cooking for Boys and Girls. I loved it! I made so many recipes from that book. I remember a fantastic peanut butter fudge recipe. I started out cooking in the 4th grade. Maybe even before. My mom let me make cakes and muffins out of mixes, and jello. I loved making whipped jello. But when I graduated to that cookbook, I thought I had arrived! I still love cooking today. My mom was a fantastic cook - she taught me everything. She just turned 87 last Sunday and still cooks almost every night for herself and my dad.
I taught my 14 year old son to make french fries. I have opened the door to Chaos.
This may be my biggest mistake since teaching my wife how to use power tools.
My kitchen is like a Kuwaiti oil field after the Iraqi Republican guard lit it up during Gulf War II.
I love my boy but I live in fear for my safety. Life was just fine up to peanut butter an jelly...
I’ll have to look at that website. This year our oldest great grand daughter will turn 5. For Christmas she got a cook book for kids and good quality set of mixing and baking equipment and pans. So more recipes for kids would be good.
Thanks....
I downloaded from your post.
Just sent it to the kids.
https://ia600506.us.archive.org/12/items/bettycrockerscoo00croc/bettycrockerscoo00croc.pdf
I have the cookbook that I took to college. It still has my favorite recipes. I especially like the peanut butter cookie recipe .... with my comment “This one damnit!”
Earlier, spoke of sharing the list of recipe sites. After numerous misadventures, will offer the site if there are any interested parties. Please be kind—there were a good many challenges in organizing and keeping this info. Do hope this will be of help.
http://mylibrary.yuku.com/topic/7/FOOD-SITES