Rats!!

That’s right, Rats!! Chocolate covered Rats, that is, made from delicious dried apricots with peanut ears and Starburst candy tails. It’s what’s for dinner, if you use What’s Cooking?, A Cookbook for Kids based on the Disney Pixar movie Ratatouille. 

In a burst of hands on creativity to deliver a book review for fellow staffers, Head Chef Nancy Wurm from the TSCPL Bookmobile department enlisted fellow cooks Sandra Lane and Robin Clark to create several tasty dishes from the book for the staff to sample.  Along with Chocolate Rats, they erected cookie Eiffel Towers made from sugar wafers and frosting, Easy Faux Escargots, which consisted of tortilla rolls with gherkin heads and Crazy Cheese Straws, made for nibbling by rats of all ages. As Remy said in the movie, and is quoted in the cookbook “If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.” And this cookbook has PLENTY of good stuff.

Book Resources used:

• What’s Cooking? A Cookbook for Kids , by Disney Press with an introdution by Thomas Keller
• Too Many Cooks by Margaret McNamara
• Ratatouille, A Read Aloud Storybook by Katherine Emmons

The recipes in this book are easy to follow but what makes the book really stand out are the photos included with each recipe. The recipe chapters include breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts, making this book useful for all types of parties – sleepovers, after-school or birthday parties. There is a heavy emphasis on cheese as a recipe ingredient, which isn’t a surprise since it IS the number one food choice of rats.

Thank you so much for your creative Project Library entry Robin, Nancy, and Sandra! If you’re interested in submitting a project, fill out the Project Library form and tell us about your completed (or half completed) projects: meals that you’ve cooked , breads and cookies that you’ve baked, quilts that you’ve sewn, volcanoes that you’ve erupted, papers you’ve written, babies you’ve named, pictures you’ve drawn, rooms that you’ve decorated, or dogs that you’ve trained. Send us pictures of your library projects, a brief description, and the titles of the books or other library resources that you used to help complete your project and we’ll post them here in the Project Library column.