Ah, cooking with the kids. Pouring love into a delicious meal that nurtures and sustains your family. Planting the seeds of a lifetime of happy memories. Right. Spend one harried weeknight trying to make it happen and your soft-focus fantasy will fall faster than they can say “Mommy, cheese soufflé? Yuck.” However, I find that if INCLUDE my 3 year-old Barefroot-Contessa-Wannabe in the process of aforementioned soufflé, she will most likely eat it. It’s also a fabulous way to spend some time together and plant the seeds of nutrition and cooking. So there may be a few eggshells in the soufflé)…but it’s a start.