Create, Cook, Talk: Seven Layer Salad

Happy Labor Day! Thinking of celebrating the end of summer with a picnic or BBQ? How about making or creating this Seven Layer Salad? 

This recipe can get the whole family involved, assign one or two layers to each family member. Make working together to create a dish a FUN experience!! Create, Cook, and Talk together!

FUN FACTS

Did you know?

This salad has been around for decades. 

It originated in the South and was called the “seven-layer pea salad” for its peas. The traditional seven-layer salad is covered with a coating of mayonnaise (and sometimes sour cream) and includes eggs and bacon. 

Seven Layer Salad

Seven Layer Salad Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups mayonnaise
• ¼ cup greek yogurt plain
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 or 1 large head iceberg lettuce (rinsed, dried, and chopped)
• 1-2 cups spinach leaves (rinsed, dried)  
• 1-pint grape tomatoes (cut in half)
• 2 cups frozen green peas (thawed)
• 1 pound maple-flavored bacon
• 6 large hardboiled eggs
• 10 ounces shredded cheddar cheese (about 2 1/2 cups)

Original recipe we followed and adapted can be found on Tastes of Lizzy T: https://bit.ly/3bmXXR3

[Encourage Language Tips]

Cooking with your kids is also a great way to facilitate language.

Here are some tips from speech-pathologist and author Becca Eisenberg and you can find her over on gravitybread.com

[#5 Recommendations to get you started]

#1. Building Vocabulary by using nouns and actions.

#2. Talk about color and size.

  Compare the different ingredients and their various sizes.

#3. Comment and DescribeEncourage words.

Help facilitate comments such as this is sweet, sticky, tasty, salty, etc…

#4. Help your child with sequencing and recalling information.

Follow the sequence of the recipe and emphasize

the steps of the recipe.

#5 Answering and asking “WH” questions:

what are we making?

What color is a strawberry?

When did we put the strawberries into the mix?

[Tip:] Encourage your children to ask questions.

If your child has difficulty with this, have a list of questions either written down or in picture form to help them ask questions.

Learning can be FUN!!!!!

and it should be

so Create, Cook, and Talk

I like to say….”encourage learning while creating yum.”

Enjoy, and have fun!

xo Kailee & Chantai

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