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    Can I Help?
    Can I Help?
    Can I Help?
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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoy Wielland
    Release dateJul 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310248887
    Can I Help?
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    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

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