What else can dc make themselves?

[BlueCowWonderss]

apart from pizza? Tea with school friends tomorrow, and even tho they'd have pizza everytime, I feel like a change. Any ideas?

Not v adventurous lot, I'm afraid.

Depends what you're after. How about fairy cakes/muffins they can decorate afterwards. Or if you want something for tea how about fresh fruit kebabs with chocolate sauce.

There was a thread a while ago about this.

What about chicken wraps. You could cook the chicke. They prep salad and assemble themselves?

slightly - can you link? (pretty please?) or am I being lazy?!

Howabout some real pesto? Always gone down well as a playdate activity here - particularly if they can pick the leaves off a basil plant themselves and bash it all up with garlic etc in a pestle and mortar - and I've never met a child that doesn't love pesto.

Crispy chicken wraps

Serves 2 large or 4 small Children

Ingredients
2 Chicken Breasts
1 beaten Egg
75g Plain Flour or semolina
1 Tablespoon paprika
Pepper to taste *
Oil to cook
4 Flour Tortillas
Cooked Sweetcorn
*Use white pepper as it gives flavour but is not visible.

Method

1. Mix the flour, paprika and pepper together in a bowl.
2. Cut each piece of chicken into about 5 strips.
3. Heat the oil in a pan.
4. Dip each piece of chicken first into the egg then roll in the flour mixture.
5. Warm the tortillas in the oven
6. Fry chicken until golden brown and cooked through (5 to 10 minutes).
7. Put some sweetcorn and chicken into each tortilla and fold into a wrap.
8. Serve.

If you like spicy food you can add some chilli flakes or chilli pepper to the flour mixture.
You can make these extra crispy by repeating stage 4 ? dip into egg, then flour then egg again and flour again before cooking.
If they are not adventurous I'd skip the salad and do carrot sticks.

I will have alook. I did try a quick search earlier when I mentioned it...but I can't find it now...I will try again.

that was a chore to find that one

We buy those Old El Paso kits - buy chicken, tortillas and an onion - you cook that and then they assemble. If you don't put all the spicy powder in and do bowls of grated cheese, guacamole and sour cream it's quite fun.

Or if you can cope with the mess, doing your own bruschetta - mash together tomatoes, basil, olives and olive oil and pile onto toasted baguette. Or that makes quite a nice pasta sauce

If you are going to do that Spice monster just buy the El passon tortilla's rather than the how kit and a jar of cheap Tesco mild salsa. Much cheaper.

Yep - sure that'd work just as well

Go mexican - fajitas, tacos ? ees gotta bee funnnnn !

Nigella's blackberry crisp - majorly easy and delicious.

I like the fresh pesto suggestion.

This is a strictly for fun recipe you can make with "mug & microwave" (just need to supervise the 3 min microwave bit)

5-minute chocolate mug cake

4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil (veg/corn oil I assume)
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
a small dash vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug and mix well. Add egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add choc chips if using + vanilla extract and mix again.

Put mug in microwave and cook for 3 mins at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug but don't be alarmed!

Allow to cool a little and tip out on to plate if desired. This can serve two if you are feeling virtuous ...

For savoury recipes my dd likes to make Nigella's corn fritters (can Google recipe easily) - dead easy - which we have with bacon ...she also likes to make veg kebabs (mushrooms, peppers, baby toms etc) in some sort of pitta bread or wrap with grated cheese ...