Can I Help?
By Joy Wielland
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This book is about using cooking to find ways to spend time and bond with children. The recipes are for adult dishes which are enjoyed by children, but all have been carefully selected , and often modified, to require only basic kitchen skills and experience, just a normal degree of supervision of the children, yet provide many tasks for a child to do to keep he or she busy, involved and interested. Because the recipes are kept simple, the book can also be used as a training manual for older children and teens allowing them to progress to the more difficult tasks. For the challenged adult who needs to pitch-in, or perhaps wants to cook a special meal with the children, it’s an excellent guide. Included in the introduction are instructions for safe-handling of poultry and with the individual recipes are suggested substitutions for ethnic diets. Among the dishes to be sampled are Oven Pancakes, Frittatas, Tuna and Bean Salad, Strata Burger, Beef Kabobs, Cornish Hens with wild rice and white grapes, fruit filled meringue “Angel Nests” and Zebra Cake. These recipes plus 96 more are simplified and easily made, but oh, so delicious. . In fact, since all are calculated to serve 4, this might become a go-to book for family meals.
Joy Wielland
Joy WiellandBorn into a family that loved traveling and tasting different cuisines, Joy Wielland grew up with an appreciation of food. Years in Italy doing graduate work gave her the chance to explore the different regional dishes of that country as well as those of other countries in Europe, and transformed a pleasant pastime into a lifelong hobby by inspiring her to cook. The hobby became a business in 1999, when frustrated by an “empty nest” she trained, joined the United States Personal Chef Association and opened Suddenly Supper Personal Chef Service. Joy admires people, especially parents, who are focused on careers, while trying to maintain a traditional home environment.She wrote her menu cookbook Dinners With Joy hoping to help them by making all aspects of the evening meal preparation stress free. Her blog Kitchen $centse at dinnerwithjoy.com also addresses the problem of coping with rising food prices, its motto is ”Creating Wonderful Scents, While Saving Cents by Using Sense.” She advocates controlling food costs through organized planning and informed shopping and has written a book on this subject as well as others on different aspects of food preparation.
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Can I Help? - Joy Wielland
Can I help?
104 breakfasts, lunches, dinners and desserts to make with children
Joy Wielland
Copyright © 2016 by Joy Wielland
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: GOOD MORNING
Apple Bread
Breakfast Croissants
Cheese Pocket Biscuit
Cranberry Scones
Easy Cinnamon Buns
Eggs Aurora
Eggs Florentine
Eggs Parmesan
Fast Fruit Crisp
French Toast
Frittata
Mayo Muffins
Melon Boats
Orange Pancakes
Oven Pancake
Sausage Casserole
Scrambled Eggs
Store Purchased Pancakes and Waffles—Upgraded for a Special Day
Tomato Cups
Turnovers
Yogurt with Bananas and Nuts
Chapter 3: HIGH NOON
Cheesy Toasted Tuna Sandwiches
Chef’s Salad
Classic Quiche Lorraine
English Muffins Capri
Gazpacho-Pasta Salad
Greek Pita Pockets
Make a Sub Antipasto
Monte Cristo Sandwiches
Open-Faced Sandwiches with Tangy Dressing
Orange Banana Salad
Pita Melts
Quick and Easy Pizzas
Ruben Sandwiches
Seafood Salad
Southwest Shrimp and Spinach Salad
Spaghetti Squash Primavera
Spinach Salad
Strata Burger
True N.Y. Deli Style Sandwiches
Tuna and Bean Salad
Turkey Mousse
Veggie-Cheese
Vegetable Wraps
Waldorf Salad
Zucchini, Onion and Bean Salad
Chapter 4: DINNER TIME
Beef Kabobs
Chicken with Cherries
Chicken in Orange Sauce
Chicken with Mustard and Honey
Chip’s Chuck Roast
Classic Fajitas
Creamy Mac and Cheese with/or not Franks
Double Punch Lasagna Roll-Ups
Enchiladas
Flounder Rolls:
Frank, Bean and Potato Casserole
Glamorous Ham Casserole
Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Melon Salsa
Meatballs in Wine Sauce
Poached Salmon
Pork Chops Basil:
Pork Loins with Apricot Glaze
Pork Rosemary
Pork Tangier
Salad Nicoise
Salad Veronique
Salmon with Mustard
Santa Fe Pie
Turkey Roll
Chapter 5: DESSERTS
Apple Crisp
Baked Alaska Pie
4 Berry Brown Betty
Blueberry Buckle:
Bread Pudding
Cheesecake Bars:
Cheesy Fruit Parfaits
Cherry Cobbler
Chocolate No Cook Bars:
Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Dump Cake
Easy Berry Angel Cream Cake # 1
Easy Berry Angel Cake # 2
Fruit Gelati
Fruit Pizza
Fruit Rustica:
Ginger-Orange Cheesecakes – No Bake
Key Lime Pie
Meringues:
Quick Peach Melba
Mocha Dream
Mock Black Forrest Sheet Cake
Peach Pandowdy
Plum Pandowdy
Pear Ginger Upside-Down Cake
Pistachio Pie:
Puff Pastry Tower:
Wrapper Fruit Cups
Zebra Cake:
Group Activities:
Pudding Pie
Puppy Chow
Chapter 6: MOTHER’S Day 2013
Eggs Adeline
Game Hens with Wild Rice and White Grapes
Chapter 7: MOTHER’S DAY 2014
Baked Eggs in a Cloud
Toad-in-the-Hole
Stew on the Grill
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
The recipes in this book are intended to make cooking with children a pleasure for everyone involved from the time the meal is planned until after the food is served, so I have tried to choose recipes that are easily and quickly prepared. I have also tried to pick dishes that call for few ingredients and utensils, require minimal kitchen experience and, depending on the ages of children involved, only low to moderate supervision. Also, for this reason the recipes appear in meal-time categories rather than as part of specific menus. This way, families can have the fun of creating their own menus, as well as the options of picking dishes that suit their level of expertise, expenditure expectations, schedule and taste preferences or dietary requirements. Just try not to duplicate main ingredients. Eggs for breakfast and a quiche for lunch are kind of over kill.
Perhaps only one or two meals are needed. This format makes it easy to do that, but remember no matter how many you plan to cook, write a menu and then draw up a shopping list of ALL the ingredients required. Be sure to check pantry supplies to avoid duplications, and finalize the list so that one trip to the store will suffice. The recipes are easily doubled or divided but remember too include these calculations when making the shopping list.
To make the entire process easier, I am including two Mother’s Day postings from my blog dinnerwithjoy.com. For two years I helped a family in special circumstances celebrate Mother’s Day. In 2012, the father was deployed and the children wanted to do everything on their own. In 2013, he had been transferred. They were moving and busy packing. The step-by-step descriptions of organizing the meals for these occasions may guide you through your planning. These recipes are worth reading too. They’re simple, a bit different and delicious.
A word of warning concerning preparation of chicken recipes; having tasted unwashed chicken, I firmly believe in cleaning, rinsing and brining it. However, remember to protect clothes from splashed water, constantly use soap to wash hands, utensils and any surfaces that may have come in contact with the raw meat. Keep the faucet pressure low. I clean chicken in a bowl in the sink then empty the bowl, re-fill it with salted water to brine the chicken and wash things down. After 10-15 min., I rinse the chicken again, put it directly in the pan and wash everything down again.
A final bit of advice, whether you’re cooking with a child for pleasure, for a special occasion, or to overcome a change in family dynamics, either temporary or long term, always concentrate on the food first. Children tend to be distracted by presentation but a well cooked meal served on a paper plate, is far more memorable than a bad one on fine china. A simple bowl of cereal with a glass of milk on the side, on a paper napkin used as a placemat, is more welcome than a beautiful place setting preceded by a lot of bangs and crashes signaling that a real mess awaits in the kitchen. Do not try to overachieve. Enjoy the experience, the companionship and remember that this is truly a time when less is more.
Chapter 2: GOOD MORNING
These recipes require only a basic knowledge of the oven and stove. The frittata needs the most attention in actual cooking. Even young children can fully participate in preparing these dishes, with supervision of course when knives and kitchen machinery are involved.
Recipe Listings:
Apple Bread
Baked Eggs in a Cloud
Breakfast Croissants
Cheese Pocket Biscuit
Cranberry Scones
Easy Cinnamon Buns
Eggs Adeline
Eggs Aurora
Eggs Florentine
Eggs Parmesan
Fast Fruit Crisp
French Toast
Frittata
Mayo Muffins
Melon Boats
Orange pancakes
Oven Pancakes
Sausage Casserole
Scrambled Eggs & Add-Ins
Store Purchased Waffles with Toppings
Store Purchased Pancakes with Fillings
Tomato Cups
Turnovers
Toad in the Hole
Yogurt & Bananas
Apple Bread
1 loaf
1cup applesauce
¾ cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 ¼ cups sifted flour
1tsp. baking soda
2 Tbs. melted butter
¼ cup chopped raisons
1 small apple diced
Cinnamon and sugar for topping
Mix first 8 ingredients and pour into a lightly greased loaf pan. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over the top. Bake in a preheated 325 deg. oven for 1 hour. Cool in pan for 15 min. then turn out onto a plate.
Breakfast Croissants
Serves 4
4 Croissants split and warmed
4 hardboiled eggs –sliced OR 4 flat scrambled eggs cut in strips
4 large mushrooms sliced
12 avocado slices
Other filling variations follow
To make flat scramble eggs, whisk eggs in a bowl, pour into