Kids Recipes

Below is the Kids Recipe of the Week. Cooking with your children is a great way to teach them skills, have fun together and make any day more special!

We like to offer kid-friendly recipes or easy kid recipes to make cooking fun for your kids by offering fun foods for them or cooking with them.

If you like to cook, or just like swapping recipes (you don’t have to be a gourmet!), we’d love to have your favorites! Please contact us if you’d like to submit a recipe to share.

This Week's Recipe:

Fruit Gobbler

Whet your family's appetite for the real bird with a fruity tribute, submitted by Michelle Pestillo of Southington, Connecticut. It's easy to assemble -- and delicious to take apart!

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
   Bosc pear (head)
   Melon (body)
   Cheese (beak and tail feathers)
   Red pepper (snood, feet and side feathers)
   Raisins (eyes)
   Grapes (tail feathers)
   Bamboo skewers
   Toothpicks
1. Stabilize the melon body by cutting a shallow slice off the rind to form a flat base. Using a section of bamboo skewer, attach a Bosc pear head to the melon, as shown.

2. Cut a cheese triangle beak and red pepper snood. Attach both, along with raisin eyes, to the head with sections of toothpick.

3. Cut red pepper feet and set them in place. For tail feathers, skewer cheese cubes and red grapes, then insert the skewers as shown. Pin pepper side feathers in place with toothpicks.

Kids Recipes - Recipe of the Week

This Week's Recipe:

Fruit Gobbler

Courtesy of familyfun.com