“Chicks and Salsa” is the perfect children’s book for home-grown tomato season:
Kids love a super silly story and this one fills the bill. The illustrations by Paulette Bogan are bright and fun.
The chickens have become tired of their bland chicken feed and the solution to their problem is….salsa!
The perfect literacy connection to this story is to make some tasty salsa. There are recipes in the book for salsa and guacamole, but this is a mild salsa recipe that is a favorite.
Salsa for Chicks ~ the ingredients are simple and colorful:
They are tomatoes, parsley (or cilantro) red onion, jalapeño, garlic, mango, an orange and green sweet bell pepper, garlic, roasted corn on the cob, salt, pepper, and cumin.
Chop your veggies and fruit. Children can help where you are comfortable to have them assist. I leave the jalapeño for last. And honestly, I would not let a young child cut it up or handle it in anyway. It t is so easy to have burning fingers with just the slightest touch. I typically have burning cuticles or eyes before it’s all over. This recipe is great because it is so healthy, colorful and tasty!
Pour the ingredients into a bowl, stir, and serve with tortilla chips.
Cooking with kids is a fun way to teach life skills. You can talk about how the ingredients grow, where they come from, and how we use them. If it is possible, grow a few vegetable or herbs of your own or visit a garden to see how they grow.
Have fun cooking together!
A printable of the recipe: Salsa for Chicks
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Great book and salsa idea! I will be buying this book and making this salsa with my grandchildren.
We love that silly book! Your home grown tomato salsa looks delicious!
What a fun book! Your salsa looks delicious! Thank you so much for sharing this post on Read.Explore.Learn.
We like that book too. Your mango salsa looks yummy. We usually make ours with the usual salsa ingredients except we add cucumber.
Oh I have to see if I can find that book. We have tomatoes in our garden (about the only thing that grew) and this sounds great.
I would love for you to stop by and link up at Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen. Now that school is starting up I have revived it as a weekly linky at Tots and Me.
http://totsandme.blogspot.com/2012/08/kids-and-mom-in-kitchen-22-dirt-pudding.html
Hope to see you there.
Have a great weekend.
Yum, it looks delicious.
What a gorgeous colourful salsa! I don’t add corn to mine, but it looks great and I bet the flavours go really well
Thanks for sharing at Happy lil ❤’s are baking x
That looks so good. What a great way to get kids to eat their veggies too. It would be so fun to read the book and make salsa with the kids. Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library!
Thanks for linking this up at Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen.
I am so hungry now, that salsa looks delicious! Thanks for sharing at The Children’s Bookshelf.