Adventures from Our Quarantine Kitchen

I have a confession: I love cooking alone. There is nothing more relaxing to me than spending a weekend afternoon in the kitchen with a podcast and comforting homemade pasta recipe. So the thought of opening up my sacred cooking space to six little hands grabbing utensils and dropping bottles of olive oil had me a bit uneasy.

Luckily though, being home together during quarantine forced me to be more flexible in my cooking rhythms, and I’m liking what I’m learning along the way. The three kids and I have spent almost every afternoon baking bread or preparing dinner together, and it’s become one of the fun things to do at home that we look forward to.

If you’ve been spending more time at home as a family, pull together a list of healthy dinners for kids and invite them to work alongside you. I will always crave my Sunday afternoons of solo meal prep time, but cooking with the kids has brought new and unexpected joy to our family. And hey, if it doesn’t work, there’s always carryout!