Cooking & Gardening Projects for Kids

This is the ultimate book for budding gardeners and super-chefs with amazing things to grow and cook yourself.

Grow and cook! This is a fabulous practical guide to cooking and gardening for children, packed with a range of fun and tasty recipes and exciting, educational projects and activities inside and out. It contains more than 300 activities and recipes, from growing your own fruit and vegetables, to cooking them for yummy results.

It covers all the basics, from safety, equipment, essential techniques, and cooking and gardening terms, and features handy directories of ingredients and plants. Make a wormery, grow square veg, create a monster pumpkin pet, rustle up a Margherita Pizza, mix a Tropical Fruit Shake or bake some Mini Chocolate Marylands. Children love to get their hands dirty and this book is packed with exciting and educational projects that will keep them entertained in both the kitchen and garden.

The first half of the book will teach any young chef all they need to know to create delicious food, with recipes ranging from a simple Chunky Vegetable Salad, through to tasty Lamb and Potato pies.

The second half of the book features practical gardening and outdoor projects that will be sure to delight any green-fingered child. Beautifully illustrated and bursting with ideas, this is an ideal hands-on guide and is sure to provide hours of entertainment for the entire family.

Every project is shown step by step, and includes a full list of the ingredients and equipment needed, as well as a difficulty rating and estimation of timing.

About the Author

Nancy McDougall is an experienced food editor, writer and stylist with a keen interest in children's cooking.

Jenny Hendy is an internationally published gardening author, lecturer and radio broadcaster.