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osmoz KIDS is a fragrant section of our site that’s both educational and fun. It will allow you to initiate your children, nephews or nieces, cousins or friends’ children into the delightfully surprising world of scents. Each issue will present a different theme, with smells to discover in a playful, simple and safe way that can keep your little rascals busy on a rainy day…
 

Tasty recipes for little chefs

 
Sweet, fruity, spicy, mild or hot… When you learn how to cook, you start to explore lots of different tastes and scents. You can also have fun satisfying your sweet tooth and impressing adults at the same time! We have 3 nice and easy recipes that are fun to make and good to eat. Cooking is another way to explore lots of nice smells!

Tutti Frutti Cocktail with colorful ice cubes
You need: orange juice, exotic fruit juices, grenadine syrup and mint syrup.

A few hours or the day before: Mix water and mint syrup in a tall glass or pitcher. Pour the mixture into an ice-cube tray and put the tray in the freezer. If you don’t like mint, you can use cola instead of the mint drink. Either way, these ice cubes will add lots of color and flavor.

In a pitcher, mix half the orange juice and the exotic-fruit juice. Add 3 – 4 tablespoonfuls of grenadine syrup. That will give your cocktail a nice, bright color. Serve it over your colorful ice cubes in transparent glasses so everyone can see and enjoy the colors. If you want, you can decorate your cocktail with slices of banana.

 

Sweet-and-sour Hawaiian style grilled ham & cheese sandwich
Per person, you need: 2 slices of bread, 1 or slices of fresh ham (or chicken or turkey roll), 1 slice of canned pineapple, 2 slices of American cheese, some butter.

First toast the bread in the toaster and butter it. Then cut the ham (or other cold cuts) to fit the bread. Place one slice of ham (or cold cuts) on top of each slice of bread, then put a slice of cheese on top of each. Put the cheese-and-ham-topped slices of bread together into sandwiches with a slice of pineapple in the middle. Your Hawaiian sandwich is ready for the oven.

Ask an adult to pre-heat the oven to high (200°C / 380 F°). Cook your sandwiches for about 15 minutes, checking frequently to make sure they don’t burn. If you want to make them even tastier – and nicer-looking – sprinkle some grated cheese on top of each sandwich so that it will brown nicely. You can decorate the plates with some rocket leaves. Rocket’s a kind of lettuce that has a funny, hazel-nutty taste.


Fruit and Candy Kebabs
You need: wooden kebab sticks, a package of marshmallows (or other soft, fluffy candy), a banana, an apple, a peach, strawberries or other fruit or berries in season, powdered chocolate and milk (or water).

Peel and cut the larger fruit into chunks. In a bowl, add a little bit of milk (or water) to some powdered chocolate, but don’t add too much. You want to make a thin sauce or syrup, not chocolate milk (or you can use ready-made chocolate syrup).

Take the kebab stick and poke it through a chunk of fruit, like a piece of apple to start with, then another one, like a strawberry, for instance. Then add a marshmallow, then more fruit. Keep going like that until your kebab stick is full (except a little bit at the end to hold it by). Place each kebab on a plate. Carefully drizzle a bit of your chocolate sauce over each kebab. If you want, you can sprinkle some cinnamon or some sesame seeds on top. Yummy!

   
 

For this activity, you need:
- the ingredients and kitchen utensils mentioned above
- the presence of an adult to keep an eye on the children

Age range >8+