Shirley Goodness

Our purpose in providing these tasty connections between books and food is to help make reading fashionable and more memorable. Each recipe is unique, many of them contributed by the authors of the books themselves. We have tried to keep to simple recipes that don't require more than a microwave, an electric skillet, a blender, a refrigerator, or a toaster oven, but sometimes a recipe is just too wonderful to make it fit into these constraints.

Most recipes require appliances you find in the ordinary teacher's lounge (microwave, toaster oven, refrigerator) or which can be brought from home (blender, crock pot, bread maker, electric fry pan). Many recipes could be adapted to use mixes instead of the "from scratch"; recipes with perfectly acceptable results. When you are outfitting your classroom cooking center, try the thrift store first. Big bowls usually are 50¢, measuring cups and spoons often are 10¢, baking pans that normally would cost $10 are $1. Dishes, bowls, cups and serving implements are similarly bargain priced.  When you are planning cooking activities, think collaboration. If the teacher is reading the book to the kids, maybe the librarian will want to set up the ingredients. If the cooking is taking place in the classroom, maybe another class would like to share the results.

We hope you will find these titles and their accompanying recipes edifying as well as edible! We can't vouch for results since many of the recipes came from sources other than our own, but if you have suggestions on how to improve a recipe, please contact us! If you would like specific recipes on a disk, we can do that to make your life easier. The cost is $10 for a CD or DVD.

Shirley Goodness and Mercy Will
Cooking Up Reading
PO Box 525
Monmouth, OR 97361
cookingupreading@aol.com

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