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Cooking with Grandkids: Sharing Family Food and Stories
Lifestyle
Being a grandparent anywhere is amazing! We get to pass on all our favorite recipes and the special stories behind them. Cooking with our grandkids is a fun way to make memories and teach them about where they come from.
Simple Local Recipe Ideas
- Ragi Dosa: A healthy kind of dosa that's yummy too!
- Vegetable Upma: A warm and filling breakfast dish.
- Coconut Chutney: Let the kids help grind the coconut and spices.
- Mango Lassi: A cool and sweet drink for a hot day.
- Chapattis: Teach your grandkids how to roll out perfectly round chapattis!
- Sponge Cake: Mixing cake batter to make the perfect sponge cake.
- Masalas: Your grandkids can learn secret family recipes of different types of masalas for sambar, rasam or even garam masala!
More Than Just Food
- Tell stories: While you cook, share memories of eating these dishes when you were little, and what you learnt from your grandmother!
- Market adventures: Take your grandkids to a local market to pick out fresh ingredients.
- My Family Cookbook: Help your grandkids make their own cookbook with favourite recipes and drawings.
For grandparents in bustling cities like Bengaluru and Hyderabad, the kitchen can become a place for experimentation because of the availability of lots of ingredients. It can be a place to share the warmth of family traditions, passing down the secrets of a perfectly spiced biryani or the art of making fluffy idlis.