Cook with Kids
By Rob Kirby
()
About this ebook
Rob Kirby
Rob Kirby is a Chef Director at Lexington Catering, which has been one of the UK's most well-respected and successful catering companies for many years. Lexington are passionate about involvement with community-based projects. He is also a leading member of The Academy of Culinary Arts. These two institutions have gifted Rob the opportunity to work with Great Ormond Street Hospital School, something he has now been engaged with for over eight years. He has witnessed first-hand just what a difference fun interaction with food can make to the lives of children. With huge restaurant and catering experience behind him, he is a well-respected figure within the business, with many appearances on TV from BBC Breakfast Time to Saturday Kitchen. Cook with Kids is his first book.
Read more from Rob Kirby
The Family Kitchen: A cookbook for all occasions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Cook with Kids
Related ebooks
Olive & Thyme: Everyday Meals Made Extraordinary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Pinewood Kitchen, A Southern Culinary Cure: 130+ Crazy Delicious, Gluten-Free Recipes to Reduce Inflammation and Make Your Gut Happy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSweet Auburn Desserts: Atlanta's "Little Bakery That Could" Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Home Is Where the Eggs Are Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEasy Culinary Science for Better Cooking: Recipes for Everyday Meals Made Easier, Faster and More Delicious Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSavory Bites: Meals You Can Make in Your Cupcake Pan Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Complete Junior Chef Cookbook: 65 Super Delicious Recipes Kids Want to Cook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Everything Cooking for Kids Cookbook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPink Princess Cupcakes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHealthy Kids Breakfast Recipes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrincess Party Cookbook: Over 100 Delicious Recipes and Fun Ideas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Party in a Cup: Easy Party Treats Kids Can Cook in Silicone Cups Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Science Chef: 100 Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fix-It and Forget-It Cooking with Kids: 50 Favorite Recipes to Make in a Slow Cooker, Revised & Updated Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Healthy Junior Chef Cookbook: 70+ Fresh Recipes That Taste Great Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTop 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChopChop: The Kids' Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Delicious Recipes to Cook with Kids: Make Your Kids Smile with These Meals Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnicorn Food: Rainbow Treats and Colorful Creations to Enjoy and Admire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Healthy Kids Cookbook: Prize-Winning Recipes for Sliders, Chili, Tots, Salads, and More for Every Family Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHomemade Healthy Kids Lunch Box recipes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFamily Cooking: Our 100 top recipes presented in one cookbook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChristmas Is Coming! An Advent Book Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMix-and-Match Mama Kids in the Kitchen: Crazy-Fun Recipes to Make Memories Together Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Young Chef: Recipes and Techniques for Kids Who Love to Cook Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Picky Palate Cookbook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey Treats for Kids Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Management For You
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Principles: Life and Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of The Laws of Human Nature: by Robert Greene - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Emotional Intelligence Habits Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Get Ideas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win | Summary & Key Takeaways Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/52600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Company Rules: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 360 Degree Leader Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Managing Oneself: The Key to Success Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 12 Week Year (Review and Analysis of Moran and Lennington's Book) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great Ceos Are Lazy: How Exceptional Ceos Do More in Less Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business (HBR Guide Series) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Cook with Kids
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Cook with Kids - Rob Kirby
I’d like to dedicate this book to my beautiful family. Tabitha, Jasper and Imani and my lovely wife Amber, who can rattle a pan in her own right.
FOREWORD BY HESTON BLUMENTHAL
INTRODUCTION
SNACK ATTACK
SCRUMMY YUMMY MAINS
HEALTH FOOD STORE
SWEET EMPORIUM
BAKER’S SHOP
SMOOTHIES AND COCKTAILS
RECIPE INDEX
THANK YOU
FOREWORD BY HESTON BLUMENTHAL
COOKING IS ONE OF THOSE DECEPTIVELY ORDINARY, EVERYDAY THINGS THAT CAN PULL A FAMILY TOGETHER IN OUR FRAGMENTED SOCIETY, BUT IT’S A RARE COOKBOOK THAT CAN SUCCESSFULLY COMBINE RECIPES THAT WILL APPEAL TO BOTH KIDS AND THEIR PARENTS.
I’ve known Rob as a chef at the top of his game for several years now and one of the best things about him is his instinctive understanding that food infused with a good dollop of fun in its making is the key to stimulating anybody’s interest in cooking and eating good food. That’s particularly true of youngsters.
Cook with Kids is bright, breezy, sophisticated and full of great recipes that will get you, your kids and the rest of the family in the kitchen making food together. Better than computer games and telly, any day!
HESTON BLUMENTHAL, BRAY, JULY 2011
INTRODUCTION
This book is about cooking with kids and it got me thinking not only about the Children’s Hospital School at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London (without whom this book wouldn’t exist), but also about my own childhood; and how food played such a huge part in that.
I grew up in the 1970s in north-west Greater London, in a big Victorian house in Northwood with my Mum, Dad and big sister. My grandparents lived upstairs. It was always a busy, happy home. It was a great house with a lovely garden; an acre of land on which my grandfather and dad grew fruit and vegetables to their hearts’ content. It sounds strange, given we were in the city suburbs, but we lived off the land. We had greenhouses full of tomatoes, cucumbers, even grapes, nectarines and beautiful succulent peaches. Fair play, I’d say, in the 1970s.
Sadly, the grown-ups in my family also had a love of flowers. I didn’t. And I have recollections of utter boredom on countless Saturdays at horticultural shows. It was always the fruit and veg I loved (anything you can eat has always interested me!), so you’d always find me in my grandmother’s kitchen watching her deal with the annual abundance of soft fruit from the garden.
She would transform the fruit into small pots of fresh jam after making a bubbling cauldron of sweet stickiness that wafted a fruity perfume throughout the house. To this day, whenever we cook jam at home the smell takes me back 40 years in an instant.
Both my sister, Lis, and I spent a lot of time with our grandparents. We’d perch at their dining table, tasting pot roasts, stews, cakes and stewed fruit. As a child I took all of this for granted but I now know these experiences directed and shaped my love and passion for real food and, more importantly, subconsciously formed my conviction that involving children in the great art of cooking at an early age is fundamental in pulling families together.
In our fast changing technological world it’s difficult to get a work life balance right, but I believe it is of paramount importance that we still keep cooking at home. I once caught our two girls lounging in bed together on a Saturday morning, conversing and chatting through their laptops rather than talking to each other – that’s scary! Let’s not get mugged by technology. We need to share experiences to reinforce family bonds and friendship – get hold of some flour, sugar, butter and pastry cutters and bake together: and have fun!
Food in the UK has changed so much over the 30-odd years I have been a professional chef. During my career I’ve cooked both in the UK and abroad in leading international hotels, fine dining restaurants and private corporate dining rooms, for all kinds of people. For high powered businessmen, the Royal Family, the Lord Mayor of London, visiting heads of state. Amazing experiences, one and all. Who’d have thought a lippy little kid from