Summer gives us a long-awaited opportunity to have fun together! Including in the kitchen: share moments of creativity with your children, fueling their curiosity and reckless desire to try everything.
Of course, it will not do without broken eggs, and not always over a bowl, without splashes on the walls and on children’s cheeks. And some ingredients will disappear before it’s even time to use them. Therefore, it is important to calculate the time – both for cooking and for cleaning up after it, to find hair clips and large aprons for little cooks.
Children love to stick their hands in the dough, flour the tip of their noses and, if they’re lucky, pick up handfuls of chocolate chips. There is so much going on in the kitchen from the moment we choose a recipe to the moment we finally try a dish that will add to the taste and pride in our achievements! “The kitchen is both a place and an art, it is a space for play and learning, it gives us the opportunity for a special meeting with children, a creative date that we appoint them,” says Alain Passard, recalling how his grandmother Louise once opened he enjoys cooking.
They share culinary secrets with each other. And the chef recalls with excitement the gestures of his grandmother, conjuring over the dish, their grace, precision, “spicy and herbal aromas of her seasonings, chocolate in desserts, her eyes, which reflected the reflection of the flame of a wood-burning stove, finally, her sensitive ear, which by the sound of the song of fire, it distinguished what was happening with the bird in the oven, prompted when it was necessary to sprinkle it with juice, when to turn it over or open the oven door.
You don’t need to be a famous chef to learn the ultimate pleasure: choosing food and cooking with your kids, sharing the excitement and excitement of creating a dish with them, enjoying a joint lunch or dinner that can be turned into a solemn ceremony or a fun holiday. It is no secret that this is how children develop taste, this is how the desire to cook delicious food is born. Not to mention that this is how they learn to be patient. And we, of course, too!
Melon with mozzarella and basil
1 small melon
1 mozzarella ball
4 Art. l. olive oil
2 Art. l. balsamic vinegar
1 bunch of basil
Fleur de sel sea salt
freshly ground pepper
Cut the melon into 12 pieces. Remove seeds and peel. Arrange 3 slices on each plate. Add 2 slices of chopped mozzarella to them. Drizzle with olive oil and a few drops of balsamic vinegar. Garnish with a couple of fresh basil leaves. Salt and pepper a little.