Ooh the towers look great. Out of my price range though and I think I'd struggle to find somewhere to keep it (we have a big kitchen but I'm a bit of a clear up freak and like everything out of the way! haha, remember it was me that stores his play kitchen under the ikea high chair
). They are a great idea though.
So, I'll be using DS's table which is an ikea SVALA. He can stand at it to do chopping. It's prob too high to do mixing at just yet (so far I've put him in the antilop for that) so I might need to do mixing with him sat on the floor or in his highchair.
I've just ordered the dog knife and duck snippers from here:
http://www.cookability.biz/kinderkitchen/d_491.htmDS can't use scissors yet but thought I'd get them anyway and see what they are like. The knife is similar to one we used at our toddler cooking class:
http://www.pamperedchef.co.uk/ordering/prod_details.tpc?prodId=10810&catId=4&parentCatId=&outletSubCat=&viewAllOutlet=The dog knife is a little more attractive and a little more expensive, tbh I chose it to compare the two, I might end up getting the Pampered chef one too.
There's a couple of web sites that I'm looking at:
http://www.healthychild.net/NutritionAction.php?article_id=286http://www.mydaddycooks.com/The second one has video blogs of a Daddy cooking with his LO plus recipes. They did BLW and this guy is making real family meals rather than just 'kid' stuff.
There's a TV prog here, I think the website and recipes will be useful too. I've watched it a few times with DS, the presenter does everything in a child safe way (like pushing the centre of a sweet pepper to 'pop' it, then tearing the pepper up), but it's aimed at 3-5 yr olds. I haven't spent much time looking at the web site yet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/i-can-cook/it looks like maybe there is only one recipe per week on there, but this page seems to have lots. There's also a recipe book.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/b01729t0So we used the Pampered Chef knife last week for the first time. Used it to make english muffin pizzas. It was great. Pretty quick and held DS's attention well enough. We also made carrot baton crudites. The knife worked so well I was amazed and I think this is really what has motivated me to get started on doing more cooking with him. I'd like to make 'real' food rather than just mixing muffins or pouring ingredients. Lets face it, there IS a limit to what a little toddler can do, but IMO it's boring to watch mummy use the food processor and chop stuff and far more interesting to be able to get your hands on the food and chop or tear it up.
I made char grilled aubergines yesterday and although DS couldn't do the grilling part I could see that chopping the aubergines would be an activity he could do once our knife arrives.
I'm kind of thinking maybe some cooking activity pre-nap, then do the hot stuff during his nap and eat lunch together post nap. Maybe one day per week.
