Chop, Cook, Yum!: Recipes from the Cool Food School

What’s cooking?

At the Cool Food School, we help children young and not so young make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners: safely, and with yumminess guaranteed.

From Morning Munchies to Yummy Dinners, Snackalious quick bites to Lunchbox Fillers, Chop, Cook, Yum! is packed with over fifty tried-and-tested, easy-to-follow recipes. Cooking is a pizza cake with this uniquely Irish cookbook for kids!

A fun and informative first cookbook for children, written by Deirdre Doyle of Cool Food School.

Cool Food School was established by BTEC-qualified Health Coach Deirdre with the mission to teach children of all ages about the joys of healthy eating. She travels to schools, preschools and parties to teach children the value of eating healthily through a range of fun workshops and camps.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Meet the Kitchen Gang 6

How To Use This Book 7

Stuff You’ll Need and How To Use It 8

Staying Safe in the Kitchen 10

Top Tips For Cooking 12

Morning Munchies 15

Vanilla Porridge 17

Porridge Cake 19

Easy-peasy Oaty Bread 20

Lazy Porridge 23

Scrummy Scrambled Eggs 24

Bestest Banana Pancakes 27

Gorgeous Granola 28

How Do You Smoothie? 31

Smoothie Planner 32

Chia Seed Jam 34

Eat the Rainbow 36

Tasty Toast Toppers 38

Lunchbox Fillers 39

All About Sandwiches 40

Hummus Atá Tú? 43

Spinach and Cheese Egg

Muffin Thingies 44

Totally Tasty Chicken Wrap 47

Waterford Tuna Blaa 48

Snackalicious 49

Bonkers-easy Banana Sushi 51

Fantastic Flapjacks 52

Powered-up Energy Balls 55

Cheesy Broccoli Quesadilla 56

Wanna Pizza My Bagel? 59

Courgette Pizza Bites 60

Dinky Apple Doughnuts 63

Totally Terrific Tomato Toasties 64

Blurry, Flurry, Snacks in a Hurry 67

Cool Cucumber Butterflies 68

Yummy Dinners 69

Cleverest Tomato Sauce 71

Brilliant Bolognese 72

Tasty Tomato Soup 73

Tomato Pinwheels 73

Beans To Make You Go Pop! 74

Awesome Chicken Nuggets 76

Winning Wedges 78

Mighty Meatloaf 81

Bash-it-about Chicken 82

Bottom-of-the-fridge Frittata 84

It’s a Pizza Cake! 86

How to Stay Healthy: The Four Pillars of Health 88

The Salmon of Knowledge with Cauliflower Rice 91

Deadly Desserts 93

Greeky Fruity Yoghurt 94

Fruit Surprise 95

Free Food Crumble 96

Don’t Make Ice Cream – Make Nice Cream! 98

Big Brain Cheesecake with Wexford Strawberries 101

Banana Boat with Chocolate Peanut Butter Sauce 102

Power Pops 104

Celebration Time 105

St Patrick’s Day 106

Pancakes Glas Blasta 107

Paddy’s Day Soup 108

Easter 110

Eggcellent Easter Muffins 110

Leftover Easter Egg Cookies 113

Halloween 114

Scary Sweet Potatoes 114

Chocolate Apple Mummies 116

Seasonal Eating 118

Christmas 120

Toy Show Hot Chocolate 120

Christmas Chocolate Bark 122

Index 124