I would like to introduce a way to have a quality time with your child today. Cooking!
Do you like cooking? I don’t really enjoy cooking.😶 How about you?
To me, cooking is just like a task that I do because I have to do. Because I can’t eat take-out food everyday?
If cooking means this to you too, how about we use this time to connect with children and make the cooking time more useful and meaningful?
Start with reading a book together.
The book “Clumsy Crab” by Ruth Galloway is a story about a crab who didn’t like his huge and clumsy claws. He finds a good way to use them at the end. 🙂
Then we are gonna make a crab salad croissant sandwich!
This one doesn’t need a recipe. We are just gonna cut some ingredients.
Main Ingredients
- Croissants
- Imitation crab meat
- Cucumber
- Celery
Cucumber
We are using a spiralizer for cucumber.
Cucumber is not hard to cut with a knife so if you don’t have a spiralizer, you can let your child cut it with a butter knife. But using a spiralizer is so fun! This tool makes children be able to cut many other hard vegetables, so I recommend considering getting one.
The julienne cucumber will be very long. So cut them with a scissors a few times.
Celery
Prep the celery for your child. Slice celery stocks into thin pieces.
Then your child can cut them into small pieces with a butter knife.
Imitation crab meat
You can use any type of crab meat – crab meat from real crabs, a can of crab meat or imitation crab meat. I used imitation crab meat because that’s what I had at home.
If you are using an imitation crab meat. This is another step that your child can do it by herself/himself. Pulling apart imitation crab meat is a fun process. In the photo, I cut them into shorter pieces first and then pull them apart, but pulling apart a long piece is more fun.😝 You choose your way.
When all the main ingredients are chopped and ready, you are gonna put them into a big bowl. I put 1(crab meat):1(cucumber):1(celery).
Add mayonnaise to the bowl and let your child mix them.
I mixed 1/2 batch with mayonnaise and 1/2 batch with a spicy sauce.
The spicy sauce is mayonnaise-based as well. It’s called Yum Yum Sauce. The recipe that I used is from Savory Experiments.
I like spicy things so I liked the batch with the Yum Yum Sauce but for children, I recommend just to use mayonnaise. Hehe.
Slice a croissant sideway and put the crab mixture inside.
Last step of this crab salad croissant sandwich is adding eyes for crab!
Do you see why we are putting it in a croissant now?😄 Because they look like crab claws!
Add two eyes and have fun!
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🦄 Do you want to play a little more with crab?
🦄 Let’s make a crab claw and play.😉
Happy learning and quality time!
Missangela👩🏻🎀