I got some sad news last night, something I can’t share yet on the blog, so I decided to do an uplifting post today and a giveaway. My friends at Cabot Cheese are excited to be working with them to help promote ChopChop Magazine – the fun cooking magazine for families, and their free ChopChop Cooking club – their national healthy cooking campaign to invite every family to join and pledge to cook dinner together once a month for 6 months.
Check out their websites:
“ChopChopKids is an innovative non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and teach kids to cook real food with their families. They believe that cooking and eating together as a family is a vital step in resolving the obesity and hunger epidemics. ChopChop Magazine reaches more than 2 million families each year and is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, was named publication of the year by the James Beard Foundation, and is a two-time winner of the Parent’s Choice Award.
We’re excited to be working with them to help promote ChopChop Magazine – the fun cooking magazine for families, and their free ChopChop Cooking club – their national healthy cooking campaign to invite every family to join and pledge to cook dinner together once a month for 6 months.”
I was sent a copy of the magazine and love that it shows in the directions whether or not you need your parents help.
And I thought it was cute that kids could draw pictures and get them published in the magazine – I had to share this one, just because it was drawn by another Hannah!
Cabot Cheese is offering up a one years subscription to Chop Chop, as well as their $25 Cheese Gift Box.
Just leave me a comment about a favorite family recipe you make with your kids now, or one you made with your parents growing up. I’ll pick a random winner in tomorrows post. Good luck!
My son and I love to make whole wheat gold fish crackers – using cheddar cheese of course, this would be an awesome gift to win!
My little girl loves to help me when I bake. We will always make sake cut out cookies at many of our holidays. So much fun to decorate after to make them look and taste good.
My moms spaghetti sauce is a family favorite that is shared at every family gathering!
My kids are grown now and for me, growing up, my mom was not much of a cook. So no memories of cooking while growing up. However, my MIL, from Italy, taught me how to cook — not with any measurements but with a little bit of this and a little bit of that. This 10th generation American learned a lot and I have loved sharing my love of cooking with both of my kids and they are sharing with their kids. Ravioli are our favorite!!
Learning to make biscuits with my Daddy…
So sorry you had bad news. My favorite recipe to make with the kids is gata – an Armenian pastry dessert. I love teaching the kids a recipe from their ancestral roots.
Hope everything works out. I am thinking of you.
My mother isn’t really a cook, so no memories there, but my grandma was awesome and one of our favorites was johnny cake
I don’t have 1 recipe in particular. I was always in the kitchen and I am sure in the way most days. The kitchen has also been a gathering place in my house. Great giveaway!!
Sorry about your bad news, please let us know if we can do anything!
My daughter loves to make ‘Family Soup’! We each pick a veggie and then all decide on what starch and protein to put in. We get some interesting combos!
I loved baking Christmas cookies and other Christmas treats with my Mom and Grandma!
I loved making stuffed mushroom with my Mommy. They were delicious.
In honor of Cabet I am reminded of a family favorite, cheesy hash browns casserole. Still makes an appearance at every family holiday! Hugs my friend.
I loved helping both my parents in the kitchen (my dad is a surprisingly pretty good cook). Loved helping my mom make homemade noodles for chicken noodle soup, cookies, pies (I am the official maker of the pumpkin filling for pumpkin pies) and being a general help for most meals….I love going to see my mom now and cooking with her and love having her help me cook when she comes to see me My dad always made 3 of my favorite dishes as a kid (shells and bacon (shell pasta with bacon, onions and tomato juice), homemade baked macaroni and cheese(which I love to make), and hotdish(which was thin cut spaghetti, hamburger, onions and tomato juice)).
You had me at CHEESE!
I don’t have kids and my mom did nearly all of the cooking growing up. But I will tell you the first thing she taught me how to make was spaghetti with meat sauce.
Another thing that I’m not sure that other parents do because I’ve never seen it done by anyone but my mom – is to add extra toppings to frozen pizza! My mom would cut up extra onions, green peppers (chop! chop!) as well as thick slices of cheddar cheese to load up on the pizza before putting it in the oven.
Today, I would use chopped fresh mushrooms in place of the canned ones she’d use!
I hope everything is ok Biz. Always thinking of you.
My Son of course loves to make cookies with his mama – chocolate chip to be exact! But he also loves making “zoodles” too!
I loved helping my dad make macaroni & cheese growing up. The REAL stuff not the crap in the box.
And growing up my Mom preferred me at the grill. HA!
When I was a kid my mom made pork chops and orange rice. I also made it for my son. It is our family thing. Still a favorite today.
YUM! I love cheese!
I’d say the best recipe is Martha Stewart’s mac n’ cheese–with gruyere. It’s super decadent and the best mac n’ cheese recipe ever. It’s requested by everyone whenever we go to parties or potlucks!
Sorry for bad news Vat!!! Giant hug being sent your way!!!!
My grandsons (identical twin boys, age 6, and their brother, age 3) love making Mamaw Thompson’s Teacakes featured in Lester Laminack’s gorgeous book Saturdays and Teacakes. The book features beautiful illustrations (we especially like Mamaw’s red and white kitchen) and the wonderful story of a young boy who rides his bicycle to his grandma’s each Saturday to help her with yard work and make cookies. The boys and I love reading the story and then recreating it by making the cookies. Of course, that includes the part about eating some, too!
My boys and I love making pizza together. My youngest loves to help press the dough and we all like piling on the toppings….lots and lots of cheese is a must! 🙂
That magazine looks pretty sweet!!
Sorry about your sad news.
My kids are pretty thrilled with quesadillas. I’ve started getting my 9 year old to help.
Fried dough on meatless Fridays growing up. Sometimes with sauce and cheese like mini pizzas or with jam or powdered sugar.
I remember making pulled taffy with my grandmother when she came to visit. It had to cool before you pulled it into long ropes and cut it into pieces. The pieces were than wrapped in squares of waxed papers. One of my favorite things my mother made was fried pies.
A favorite family dish is tator tot hot dish with lots of shredded cheese. Mmmm!
We loved helping my mom make scalloped potatoes! She would get out the potatoes, and we would all help to peel and slice them. It was a group effort. She always used chunks of spam in the dish, which you rarely see nowadays!
Such sad news. I love that you are posting this today!
My mom and I always made Christmas cookies- we still do to this day. Whether we are there for Thanksgiving or Christmas- we always cook up 10 or so dozen…my favorite memories with my mom. hugs and love to you today!
Sorry about your sad news, Biz! Sending you a hug!
The magazine sounds great and perfect for the kid and me! 🙂 And who can say no to cheese? Not me!
Right now, the kid loves to make guacamole (because he loves to eat it!) as well as homemade pizza (we could use the cheese on the pizza! Hint hint!!!!).
I remembered growing up and learning to fry chicken and making cauliflower with my mom. And then when I had my 2 year old granddaughter this summer her and i would bake cakes together and she would help me cook whatever sounded good. she loved to help me mash potatoes with a potato masher.
I used to love to make pizza with my mom. 🙂
The cheese sounds great and I could pass the magazine on to my Nieces kids. I don’t remember my mom and I cooking together, she always had me peeling potatoes and boiling them and then doing all the dishes.
But I do love cooking and trying different things….but dishes no, still not thrilled to do them, needless to say I always have dishes in the sink.
Hope the bad news is not too overwhelming for those involved. Praying.
I don’t remember making anything with my mom, but I do remember when I was around 10 she let me make dinner for the whole family and I made meatloaf and mashed potatoes – all receipes out of my Betty Crocker’s Children’s Cookbook which I still have to this day.
Sorry you are having bad news 🙁
There were several years during which my parents made pasta from scratch. My brother and I would help hold the dough and guide it in to the pasta machine. We would also put the strands of pasta on the wooden drying rack. I remember the time our family cat got spooked by something and ran under the dried pasta; it all broke and fell on the floor and went *everywhere.* We all laugh about that story now.
My mom never let me cook in the kitchen with her, it was her domain. I did love when she made our favorites jewish foods, such as noodle kugel.
Peanut butter cookies! Both my son and I, when I was a kid, like to do the cross-hatch fork marks.
My girls and I cook and bake all the time but the recipe my oldest daughter asks to make a lot is a chocolate pie from an old 4H cookbook.
Lately my 6 year old daughter is obsessed with making no bake cookies with me. I wish it was something healthier!
My “kids” are now 33 and 35 and we still love the baked macaroni and cheese I made when they were little. It’s even delicious with gluten free pasta for my youngest.
Our favorite thing to make together is cutout Christmas sugar cookies. It’s a half day adventure that involves lots of laughter, lots of tasting, and a whole lot of Love. It has evolved to include grandchildren and nieces and nephews.
Our favorite family recipe’s are any that include pasta. We love mac n’ cheese, stroganoff, and cheeseburger casserole. YUM!
Growing up I was never allowed in the kitchen-it was a place for grown ups only. When I had my boys, it was important to me to make it a place they felt at home in. We love to make homemade macaroni and cheese together because they are always amazed at the process and they love the delicious results!
Pizza party!
Gah! I can only ever find 1 Cabot cheese near me. I remember as a kid living at home my mom and I would spend all day baking holiday treats and cookies. I looked forward to that day every year.
At this time of year, it’s my mom’s chili recipe. It’s on a weekly rotation in the winter months, and I usually serve it whenever family gets together. Kids would always help with chopping the veggies and adding the spices.
Hope everything is okay Biz!
My middle child and I love making these Harvest Muffins. Easy, healthy and so tasty!
http://www.sweetandsavoryfood.com/2015/09/harvest-muffins.html
Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner! As the oldest of 6, I helped a lot preparing. Mom always hosted after my grandparents passed away so sometimes we had over 30 people. I peeled potatoes, tore bread into pieces, chopped veggies and even helped roll out pie dough crust. Everything was homemade. To this day, I am a very good pie maker. Thanks, Mom!
I have been teaching my teenage daughter how to make traditional German recipes passed down through my family for years. So fun!!
I hope the sad news isn’t anything major! I have fond memories of helping my mom make scalloped potatoes and ham!
I was always in the kitchen when my mom made her baked macaroni and cheese. Rachel has tried to recreate this recipe with varied success. Mac and stuff is NOT mac and cheese! Maybe the Cabot would help her finally make it properly.
My gramma and I made tacos together once a month for the whole family. So fun to be in the kitchen with her!
My favorite thing to make with my mom was rice krispie treats. i think it’s because she always made a double batch, so they were big and thick, not the thin, compressed pieces other kids’ moms made.
I used to make homemade goulash and mashed potatoes with my grandma. She passed away 10 years ago, and none of us can recreate that recipe, even though we all helped a million times!
LOVE, love, love to make taco’s together…..
Like you, we often did pizza party Fridays for dinner growing up. Everyone was involved in the kitchen, choosing their own toppings, rolling out the dough, etc. Such a fun memory!
My fav family recipe growing up was lasagna, my mom made it all the time and in my teens, I started making it for her birthday dinner. Now I love to make lasagna and other yummy comfort foods for my husband and kiddos.
My kids help me make cookies around the holidays and I love their help!
My favorite childhood memory is of my Mom and Grandma and I spending a whole day baking sugar cookies for our family Christmas. We would take over all the counter space and 2 tables folding table. I remember Christmas music playing and snow falling and it took all of my will as a kid not to eat all the Christmas tree shaped cookies…those were my favorite. 🙂
To get my kids to eat more veggies, I found a squash casserole, I let them help and they reinvented “Squish Squash” with lots of cheese and crumb topping. Still a family favorite today!
Favs: cookies, mac & cheese and anything in Grandma’s crockpot! Smells of the kitchen bring back so many memories!….
Sorry about your sad news, Biz. 🙁
When I think back to having my kids “help” in the kitchen I was smile when I think of decorating sugar cookies! Sprinkle and frosting all over the place! Looking forward to when I can do this with my 2 granddaughters!
My son loves making chili with me. Because my husband and I like it really spicy and he doesn’t; he gets his own little crock-pot and seasons it himself. He loves rummaging through the spice cabinet trying new spices….needless to say hes had some interesting concoctions.
This magazine is too cute! In my house now, zoodles with homemade red sauce are a huge hit! My step-daughter LOVES using the spiralizer.
I always loved helping making cheese balls with my grandma for the holidays!
I don’t have kids yet but my favorite memory in the kitchen was making greek cookies with my nana!
Oh I really want that magazine!!!! Crossing my fingers I’m picked, but if not I may have to subscribe myself 😉
There was never one specific dish I made growing up, but I lived with my grandparents for 3 years and my grandpa always involved me and let me “help” him!
Praying for better news to find you today. Hugs!!
My mother didn’t really cook, nor did my dad, but I remember being in the kitchen with my grandma when she made cookies. I’m not sure how much helping I did though 🙂