Junior Chefs: Kitchen Skills for Confident Cooking

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and jump into the kitchen! In this fun and flavorful hands-on culinary series, you’ll learn the essential kitchen skills every young chef needs to cook with confidence. You’ll start with knife skills—learning to safely slice, dice, and chop like a pro using a Chef’s knife. As you create colorful fruit kabobs and mix a tasty yogurt-honey dip, you’ll build the precision and technique that make food prep easy and fun. Next, you’ll dive into the world of baking in the Perfect Measuring class. While whipping up a batch of chocolate chip banana muffins from scratch, you’ll learn how to accurately measure wet and dry ingredients, level properly, and follow a step-by-step recipe. Then, in the final class, you’ll bring everything together to make a delicious snack. You’ll use your new skills to create crispy mini taco cups with seasoned meat or beans, chop fresh ingredients for tomato salsa, and bake your own seasoned tortilla chips. Along the way, you’ll learn the secret to staying organized in the kitchen with a simple technique called “Mise en place.” By the end of the series, you’ll be ready to confidently take on any kitchen task—and share your tasty creations with pride! In partnership with Say Grace Children’s Culinary Academy.