I hope you are loving the What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids series on my blog as much as I am.  I am thrilled every single time one of my readers sends in a story about cooking with their children.  One of the things I love the most is how many “types” of people are bringing their kids into the kitchen.  It just goes to prove that you don’t have to be a “cook” or nutritionist to get up the chutzpah to cook with your children.  What?   You don’t know what chutzpah (HUD-spah) means?  It’s Yiddish and roughly translates to having the nerve or the gall to do something.  Anyway…

Well, it just so happens that this week’s installment of What’s Cooking with YOUR Kids does happen to be from a nutritionist.  Deanna is an RD with Teaspoon Communications and shares this tale…

I’m a food-loving dietitian by trade (meaning, I’m all about eating, cooking, describing and enjoying all kinds of food and fitting that into a healthy lifestyle.) So I’m adamant about sharing this mantra with my daughter, Mia (2 1/2 yrs.), by getting her involved in the simplest of kitchen tasks.

For this recipe, she got into “chucking” the baked sweet potatoes into the bowl and watching the mixer for a few rotations.  We didn’t do this last step (mixing the sweet potatoes into the ice cream) until it was time for dessert.  Though she eyed her usual “vanilla” ice cream with suspicion, she gobbled it right down.  Next on our list of veggie ice cream flavors to try:  Carrots and Butternut Squash.

Mia’s Sweet Potato Ice Cream:

1 sweet potato
2 tablespoons lowfat milk
1/2 cup vanilla ice cream

1. Scrub sweet potato and cut off one end (to prevent bursting in oven.) Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. Cool slightly.
2. Remove skin and place in mixing bowl.
3. Whip sweet potato, adding milk to make creamier.
4. If you have time, chill in fridge for 1 hour
5. Mix 2 tablespoons of sweet potato mixture into softened ice cream. Mix well and serve immediately.

Do you have any fun stories and photos to share about cooking with YOUR kids?  I hope to share at least one reader story every week and can’t wait to hear about your adventures in the kitchen with your kids. Here is what you need to do.

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