Homemade Fridge Pickles

Today we got together for kids cooking class to continue our knife skills. In the middle of class, this jar of pickles walked in attached to the hand of a dad. Wait. Does that sound like the pickles had legs? Well...they didn't. We needed them for our potato salad. We decided that we should make some pickles too. Did you know that pickles are made of cucumbers? Some kids don't know that. I bet you did.

Here's what you need:

One quart jar with lid

measuring spoons and cups

knife to cut cucumbers (if you are allowed...ask an adult!)

Food for Fridge Pickles:

2 large cucumbers

1/2 cup vinegar

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup water

1/2 tsp dill weed or seed

1 clove garlic (peel off skin and cut in half)

3-4 small red pepper flakes (optional)

Slice the cucumbers in 1/4 inch slices. We cut them in half first.

Put all the rest of the food ingredients in the glass jar. Be sure to stir it a little to dissolve the salt.

Fill up the jar with the cucumbers. If there is any uncovered pickles, be sure to fill up the rest of the jar with water.

Put on the lid tightly and put the jar in the fridge. The pickles will be ready to eat in about a week.

There you go!

Bubu's fruit salad.

Hi all from one of the little chefs!!! My bubu (pronounced BOO-BOO), which means 'grandma' in Marshallese, (My grandparents went to the Marshall islands for one of their missions.) came over one time and we were trying make a dish sorta like this and she told us what we should put in it. It's really good. ;) About 6/8 of us like it. Here's the recipe:

Bubu's fruit salad
1 Lb (16 oz) cottage cheese
1 8 oz (226g) whipped or "cool" whip
2 11 oz (311g) or 1 22 oz can mandarin oranges
1 box of flavored gelatin or jello

Now the only thing you need to do is put all of the ingredients in a bowl and put in fridge until you are ready to serve. Here are the pictures of me making it:
The ingredients.

And stir it all up!!!! (make sure that NO white is showing and that there isn't to much pink in one spot)










And the finished product!

And Dad tasting!!!! Hope you all like it!! I know I do!!! There you go.

Face's Chop salad

Hi this is Face. Chef Tess is my mom and today I wanted to share my favorite salad. Anytime mom says we need a salad, I will go to the fridge and get out celery and cabbage and some oriental dressing. I chop two stalks of celery and 1/2 head of cabbage. Then I put them in a large bowl. I add 1 cup of oriental dressing and some salt and pepper. That's it. It would look really pretty with carrots as well, but I usually use what we have so it changes from time to time. Enjoy.

Littlemans fries

These are some fries we made at our house. They were great. My mom

chef-tess bakeresse said so. She rocks!

The first thing you do is cut 3 potatoes and cut them into fries like shape. Spray pan spray on a sheet pan. Lots of kids use them to make cookies. We used the pan this time to make fries.

Put cut potatoes in a large mixing bowl with 1/4 cup vegetable oil and toss around with a

spatula. Put them on the sheet pan. Spread them out. Then you bake them at 450 degrees for 25 minutes. It helps to have a grown up open the oven and stir them after 10 minutes. When 25 minutes is up...

have a parent take out of oven with hot pads.

Enjoy. Good luck soldiers.

----Littleman