Wednesday, October 23, 2013

What's Cooking?

Some of my favorite writings are recipes, and there are some great ones by children's-book creators, like those in Writers in the Kitchen, or the Michigan Reading Association's Recipes for Readers.

Since my books have a lot of ingredients, I've included recipes on a new Web page, put together by author-illustrator Deb Pilutti--and she's made printable recipe cards.

If you feel like cooking along with a story, there are four recipes--Elena's staple food, tortillas; oatmeal cookies the sheep could make with their Halloween treats; a savory custard on the menu at the Tiddley Wink Teashop; and maple porridge sought by marauding raccoons. Of course, if you're an oatmeal aficionado,  you can use the tastier and slower-cooking rolled or steel-cut oats. I like to tinker in the kitchen--please tinker along.

The sheep get apples, oats, sugar, and eggs as Halloween treats--they go into trick-or-treat cookies.