Senior Chef - Kids Cooking Lessons
16-18 years old - Lesson 2

Today's Kids Cooking Lessons is sweet and simple. When planning the monthly or weekly menu, take in account which night your Senior Chef will be cooking.
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One Night a Week Chef

Allow your Senior Chef to choose the menu for one meal a week, as well as help with the shopping list and grocery shopping.

For that one night, he/she are in charge of the family meal. Of course, he/she can enlist help from others but for this night he/she is the head chef.

Here are some PDF pages to help in your menu planning:

Menu Calendar
menu calendar printable


Weekly Menu Calendar
weekly menu calendar printable

Sample Weekly Menu Plan

Do you need help getting started with your menu plan? Use our sample below:

Sunday Taco Beef Soup
Serve with bread sticks
Monday Chicken Casserole
Green salad
Tuesday Spaghetti with Roasted Broccoli
Wednesday Sweet and Sour Pork
Thursday Shredded Beef Tacos
Friday Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
Saturday Breakfast for dinner night

Check out more help in Menu Planning here.


How to Meal Plan for Beginners Video


Kids Cooking Lessons- Dinner Recipes to Try

Easy Chicken Casserole

by Karen
  • Box of stuffing
  • Can of cream mushroom soup
  • 1 Can chicken broth
  • Cut up cooked or shredded chicken
Add all ingredients together in a casserole dish. Stir to combine. Bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

Simple Veal Schnitzel

serves 2

  • 1/2 a tablespoon of dried parsley
  • extra virgin oil
  • 1 egg
  • 4 veal fillets
  • 1 cup of bread crumbs
  1. Tenderize veal with meat mallet.
  2. Put bread crumbs and parsley in shallow dish. Mix together.
  3. Whisk egg in a separate bowl.
  4. Dip veal in egg, then into breadcrumbs and cook in oil.

My kids love this dish. When they start saying, "I'm hungry" repeatedly at 5:30 and I realize that I have got nothing prepared, I just whip up this dish and they love it!

Quesadilla

by Fatima Prieto (Aurora ,Colorado)
Ingredients you will need:
  • Any kind of Cheese
  • A Microwave
  • Flour tortillas
First, you need to get the flour tortilla and put the cheese on it. Then you need to fold it in half. After that you put it in the microwave for one minute and enjoy your food!


Check out more recipes to try for main dishes here.
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