The How-To Cookbook for Teens: 100 Easy Recipes to Learn the Basics

A couple of weeks ago we shared a cookbook for teaching cooking skills at home, and one of our readers wrote in and recommended this book for teens. It is for teens who can read, do and make themselves. A Self-guided cook book if you like. They will have to be confident around basic kitchen supplies like knifes and heat etc.

Learn how to be a rock star in the kitchen with 100 easy recipes for teens

Not only is cooking a useful skill to learn, it can also be super fun! This beginner-friendly cookbook for teens is packed with simple recipes to help you level up your cooking skills and create delicious dishes that you’ll be proud to share with your friends and family.

Find out how to make a tasty mix of classic comfort foods and creative new dishes, like Cheesy Breakfast Bacon Muffins, Black Bean Burgers, Easy Lasagna, Banana Cream Pie, and many more. The recipes use everyday ingredients that are affordable and easy to find in your local grocery store.

The How-To Cookbook for Teens includes:

Cooking 101―Learn how to set up your workspace, accurately measure ingredients, use proper knife technique, and more.
Cooking terms―Get comfortable with common cooking terminology you’ll see in all types of recipes.
Tips and tricks―Find tricks to help you avoid common cooking mistakes and hacks for customizing recipes to make them just how you like them.

Build up your cooking skills and make fantastic meals with this perfect choice in cookbooks for beginners that’s just for teens.

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The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.

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