Sesame Street C is for Cooking

by Susan McQuillan

Introduce your kids to cooking... with help from the Sesame Street gang!

Find more than 50 simple, tasty recipes for healthy breakfasts, lunches, dinners, sweets and treats,and more. Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, Ernie and Bert,Oscar the Grouch, Abby Cadabby, and more of your favorite friends from Sesame Street introduce the recipes and share food facts, letter and number activities, and other cooking fun.

All recipes include one or more "kids!" steps to get children involved in the kitchen.

Genres: Cookbooks, Childrens, Cooking, Food, Reference, Nonfiction

128 pages, Spiral-bound

First published October 5, 2009

Reviews

[Bryan Roemke · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 9 and 11 year old daughters have made several recipes from this book and we loved almost all of them. There are some ingredients that we do not normally use so they are expanding their tastes as well as learning kitchen skills with favorite characters!!!

[Zach Braswell]

yea this book is this SHIT

[Carm · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book, especially when the kids were younger. I made the Bert's Best Blueberry Oatmeal Bars on Sunday for breakfast. At best the Bars would last 2 days in this house. Loved the easy thumbprint cookies that which the kids took an interest in by making the "thumbprint". I've made Lidia's Easy C is for Crunchy and Cheesy Broccoli and Cauliflower countless times. Mark's Lentil soup was also well received by my family. Cookie Monster's Peachy Dee-licious Applesauce is lovely and a nice change from regular applesauce. Elmo's Dutch Baby Pancake with Buttery Apples is easy, delicious and introduced my kids to another cuisine. This book is still useful even though the kids are grown up. Many of the recipes are not child size portions. This cookbook always cheers me up when i open it, it's so colourful and happy.

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars!!!

[johane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This special edition kids’ cook book was produced
by the Sesame Street gang to celebrate the Street’s 40th anniversary and is an introduction to
cooking for children in the 4-8 age group. The 16 page easy- to- use, spiral-bound, full gloss
colour cook book features many yummy recipes from all the usual Sesame Street characters:
Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby and many of their friends.
There are recipes for drinks, breakfasts, lunches, soups, dinners, side dishes, sweets and treats
and snacks too.
Also included is a sheet of reusable stickers of foods, characters, numbers and words.
Introduction for kids?!! Well, I say, how about an introduction to cooking for this grumpy mature
woman? Having admired, perused and studied the recipes I would keep “C is for cooking” just for
me! The recipes are sooo quick and easy.
I’ve decided I’m done with cooking from scratch, done with zillions of cooking recipes I looked at
and tried over the years. It is no more for me using my mother’s and ex mother-in-law’s recipes
from the old country passed down thru the generations of Balkan women. No more of those secret
recipes lost in time which invariably call for slave- like hard labour over a hot stove!!
I am also done with cook books with such promising but false hope-giving titles such as “Quick
recipes for busy women”. Been there and done that with the “4 Ingredients” and “4 Ingredients 2”.
Even recipes with just 3 ingredients are too much effort for this jaded mature woman!
“C is for cooking” is just about the right cooking level for me and the kid’s won’t even get a look in!
My favourite recipe from this book is “Elmo’s mac n cheese fastest macaroni in the west”. I was
much amused by the title and I wondered if The Duke would have been impressed with this recipe.
It would have so added such interesting nuances to his macho image if he went around reaching
for his cook book instead of his gun! For those of you too young to remember The Duke is one of
John Wayne’s movie characters he was famous for. Who is John Wayne? Well, he was …never
mind!!
Seriously tough, I can truly recommend this book for use by kids and adults alike and cooking
surely must be one of the best activities that adults and children can enjoy doing together.

[Krissy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would love to give this 4.5 stars.

I have to say I'm a little in love with a cookbook written in part by monsters. ;)


The recipes are easy to do. They all fit on one page, or if two, it's the two pages facing each other. (meaning, no having to flip back and forth.) The recipes all include steps which are easy for kids to do. The colors are bright, the pictures attractive. Everything about this book grabs your attention.

And your kid's attention. The Evil Overlord in Training kept trying to pull it away from me. :D

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really cute book. Lots of kid-friendly recipes. Faith is not a picky eater, she's just not a big eater. There are days that I wonder if she even consumed 500 calories. These recipes will be great for when she has a bigger appetite. There's a recipe for vanilla cake and strawberry frosting that I'm going to use for her birthday. I'm also using "Ernie's Roast Lemon Chicken" for dinner tonight:)

[Stunna415]

tought me how 2 read

[Tara]

so sad that my children are too old for me to pretend I'm checking this out of the library for them.

[Audra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was surprised at how healthy these recipes are. It's available at Ironwood library (after we return it!). Fun format with trivia and lots of Seaseme St. characters.

[Mary]

Grover's chicken, sesame string beans, zucchini coins were all a big hit.
This cookbook just might be my speed, and the one that propels me to The Art of French Cooking.

[Petrie Serrano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Generally healthy recipes from around the world with instructions for what parts the kids can do clearly marked. I got this from the library and renewed it twice so I'm putting it on my wishlist.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good sesame street cookbook!

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

good sesame street cookbook