Welcome to KidsCookDinner.com.  I just realized that my sister Alex and I have been cooking and posting since 2015!  Scroll down a post or two to see the story of our website and the $17,500 we won and donated to Action Against Hunger (or click here!) or if you just want to read about food…read on.

Tonight I made another pretty easy dinner: roasting a pre-marinated chicken from Trader Joe’s and making some fresh pasta. The hardest part of the dinner was going to Raffetto’s in the West Village to buy the pasta.  But it’s a pretty cool place: you tell them how you want your pasta sliced and they use a machine to cut it for you fresh.  Plus their pesto sauce is literally the best ever.  Anyway, here’s my favorite chicken…it’s a little more expensive than just a whole chicken but it tastes really good and cooks a little faster because it’s “spatch-cocked”…essentially flattened.  It needs to cook for at least 60 minutes…a little more probably better.

Once that 60 minutes was pretty close to being done, start the water boiling for the pasting (we chose 1/4 inch, which expands to 1/2 inch when cooked).

The thing with fresh pasta is that it cooks really fast (3 – 5 minutes) so you can’t walk away.  Otherwise it just turns gunky.  Drain it and check on the chicken.

Looks good: time to plate.

For dessert, we did a honey tasting.  Trader Joe’s had a rainbow of honey collection that Mom got for us…it ranged from light to dark (Clover, Sunflower, Macadamia, Orange Blossom, Mimosa and Eucalyptus).  Alex and I took on the difficult test of trying them all and unanimously agreed that Clover (the lightest) was definitely the best!