First Friday Night: Breakfast for Dinner
Who doesn’t love breakfast for dinner? For September’s First Friday Night, we’re whipping up oatmeal pancakes with a yummy fruit syrup and fresh orange juice!
If you weren’t able to come to First Friday Night in person, you can still make this meal with your family at home. We’ve got the ingredient list, recipes, and even a fun family activity linked for you below.
Fun Fact: Oats are a nutrient-dense food! They contain protein, carbs, and fiber, along with several vitamins and minerals. Eating oats is a great way to start (or end) your day!
Breakfast for Dinner Recipes:
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Ingredients:
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
1 cup milk
2 large eggs
1 Tbsp. butter
1 Tbsp. sugar
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
nonstick spray or canola oil -
4-5 apples, cored and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup water
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. allspice
Yogurt -
10 oranges
Fun Fact: Oranges are an excellent source of Vitamin C. One orange provides more than 90% of your daily intake. In the late 1700s the British Royal Navy started keeping citrus juice on their ships to help sailors recover from a disease called scurvy - caused by a lack of Vitamin C!
Everyone has a job to do!
Suggestions for Cooking by Age
3-5 Year Olds: setting out ingredients, washing produce, stirring things together (with help), setting the table.
K-2nd Grade: measuring ingredients, juicing oranges, cracking eggs, whisking ingredients, clearing the table, cleaning up.
3rd-5th Grade: washing dishes, melting butter, cutting (with supervision), adding ingredients to a pan.
Middle School - Adult: coring/chopping apples, halving oranges, boiling water, cooking pancakes.
Before you start, check out these helpful videos on hand washing and knife safety skills. When you’re ready, its time to get cooking!
At Kids Cook! we have a few simple rules that guide our cooking (and eating!) time. One rule is that we wait until everyone is seated to eat. We say our magic words - Bon Appetit, it's time to eat! - and we all enjoy the meal we’ve worked to create.
As you enjoy your dinner together, here’s a few conversation starters you can use to talk about your meal:
a) What textures do you notice in the food?
b) How would you describe the flavor of the pancakes? The toppings? The juice?
c) What was your favorite part of the meal to prepare?
If you have kids (or adults) who don’t love the food, that’s ok too! It’s fine to try (or not try) something new, and there are lots of ways to talk about or interact with food besides eating - try cutting it, squishing it, pouring it or comparing it instead!
Another rule at Kids Cook! is that we cooperate and work as a team. When the meal is over, everybody gets to take part in cleaning things up! This is another opportunity for the whole family to get involved - from washing, drying, putting away or tidying up the rest of the kitchen.
We hope you enjoyed this resource and had fun cooking at home! Feel free to take pictures of your family cooking together and use the hashtag #FFNathome.
See you next time!