Judging by the pile of instant pancake mix in the supermarket yesterday it seems a lot of people don’t know how to make even the most basic dishes. Pancakes have literally three ingredients – flour, milk and eggs. I know some people may not be confident cooking so here is a dead easy pancake recipe that is ultra simple. Get a normal mug, fill it with plain flour, put the flour in a bowl, fill the mug again with milk, …
Childhood obesity has reached global epidemic rates and can have a detrimental impact on a child’s physical and mental wellbeing, with both dietary behaviours and physical activity levels being implicated in its rise. We have highlighted the importance of children and adolescents learning cooking skills for diet quality and cooking can be used as one method for changing children’s food behaviours. From a physical perspective, children may not be developing their motor skills (coordination of their muscle movements) at a …
I was never very good in the kitchen. Despite my own mother’s ability to magic the most wonderful culinary inventions out of a simple pressure cooker, her skills were sadly to remain in the annals of our family history, for they never arrived with me. These gastronomic inadequacies are never more apparent than when my now grown-up children return to the nest hoping for a bit of cosseting but never (ever) assuming it will be of the foodie variety. They …
