Cooking in the Shire

I'm so very excited! I've decided to start cooking with the kids in the Shire on Thursday's! I think this will be so much fun for me, my kids and the neighborhood. I would like to try to use ingredients from the neighborhood when it's possible and really do some recipes that would be more creative than pancakes, which I learned in 7th grade. Boring. Pizza's with homemade sauce using herbs from the garden, fresh baked goods, pasta and rice dishes are all easy enough and still stretch the kids abilities and taste buds. My head is bubbling over with ideas!