I love cookbooks and I recently found again this old book from my own childhood called “Linus lässt nichts anbrennen” which brings me so much joy to read in and to look at the beautiful little drawings (from great illustrator Lena Anderson, it’s called in English: “Elliot’s extraordinary cook book”).
I really love the warmth that shines through the pages and the cosy happy-life-feeling the pictures bring me, and I simply love the Swedish lifestyle and the natural-romantic-design (oh, I am realizing that I actually really love Sweden for all its goods: the other Lena Anderson books like “Linnéa”, and books from Astrid Lindgren, Elsa Beskow and general things such as Ikea and H&M, ,…).
I am happy to recommend this book now to you and to be able to offer it to my own kids to establish their natural love for cooking, baking and food-making, alhamdulillah.
They already did love cooking and often are my kitchen-helpers. I simply prefer to give them a (not-so-sharp) knife and some vegetables to chop at my side instead of always looking after them when they do other things while I am cooking. It is just so much easier and they learn some important kitchen skills, they are part of the process with all their senses and they train their tastes. Sometimes we even have great discussion about God and life while working together and mostly all the doing is accompanied by some good laughter. But best of all: they really are able to help me with little tasks.
Now, having that beautiful book, we got some new inspiration for cooking, there are beautiful little recipes in, ideas for outside picnics, some easy-to-understand health lessons and a lot of good stories around food.
Autumn and winter are seasons when we do spend even a lot more of time in kitchen together, canning, baking, preparing for the cold months, making things, learning and living, and that book, alhamdulillah, definitely extends these moments.
I wish you a blessed Friday, friends, with a lot of joyful moments around the wonderful food of this colourful season that autumn is!
Auch euch einen guten Freitag, liebe Itto, genießt ihn miteinander
“with all senses” – und vor allem natürlich auch: Guten Appetit!
Liebe Grüße
Ingrid
Liebe Itto,
das ist ja ein super Buch! Ich finde die Illustrationen auch wunderschön, sie vermitteln so ein Gefühl von Wärme und Gemütlichkeit…
Junis möchte auch schon immer in die Töpfe gucken und sagt dann immer mit Bestimmtheit ” heiß”!
Ich möchte das Kochen auch mit ihm teilen, schon allein damit er nicht ein Mann wird, der nie ein Küchenmesser in der Hand gehalten hat.
Dir einen erholsamen Freitag und liebste Grüße
Steffi
asalamoaleykom, we have got out the Linnea gardening book a few times from the library here- I read it more than the kids!I’ll see if they have the cookbook next!
Unfortunately Sweden is trying to be more like Germany in terms of banning Home education, so unfortunately its not all good here……..
My 3 year old is excellent at peeling things like garlic and onions and carrots (although not much is left of the latter by the end of it mashAllah.) They tend to want to eat it if they were involved in the cooking process (well, sometimes!)
UmmSuhayb x
This post made me find (and buy lol!) my favorite cookbook from when I was a kid!
Holly Hobbie's Cookbook
My boys are very hands on in the kitchen and the oldest can now cook independently, masha Allah. We have worn out this cookbook and I have to get another, inshAllah:
http://www.amazon.com/Pretend-Soup-Other-Real-Recipes/dp/1883672066/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3
I know a lot of Americans are currently moving away from being able to cook from scratch. It’s a weird dynamic that this society pushes independence, but really so many people are completely not self-sufficient about even basic things like cooking, fixing a button or changing their oil. And I always find it amusing when men who who lived single for years suddenly are unable to boil water upon being married!
I am so glad to “see” you again! I was unable to access the site for some time (went private?) so I had not come by for awhile. I am so glad I tried again today after the break because it is, as usual, an inspiration!