Cooking Skill Level: SUPER EASY
Great book! I love the humor. It’s quite mischievous. Sort of like some
boys I know.
The premise is that there’s a Bear who
lost his Hat. He wants it back. You have to read this one, it’s so darn
funny. I really want to tell the story to you so you can understand some of the
subtleties of the meal, but I do not want to ruin this story for anyone. Just trust that the food fits really well
with the story line.
First, we have hats. Pasta hats, or orecchiette. Even though these aren’t shaped just like the
Bear’s missing hat, they are still hats.
To prove that they are hats, I’ve photographed my little finger wearing
one. Quite the fashionable digit.
If the kids are
small enough, tell them that’s just what a bear paw looks like. If they’re too old to fall for that, give
them a butter knife and let them shape the paws. I filled the paws with chicken
salad, but you could use any sandwich filler; cold cuts, cheese, egg salad,
even peanut butter and jelly.
Plate it all up; the bear paw sandwich,
the hats (with a bit of butter and parsley) and the carrots. Expect the orecchiette to end up on little fingertips,
but they’ll also get eaten!
For dessert, I found some Teddy Graham Soft
Paws which are soft cookies shaped like bear paws. If you can’t find them and don’t want to try
making cookies from scratch, try my pie crust and cinnamon trick. Just unroll a refrigerated pie crust, sprinkle
it with cinnamon and sugar and cut your paw shapes. Put them on a cookie sheet and bake until
light brown. These are great, quick and
tasty “cookies”. To complete the
dessert, I added some perfect red strawberries which really do look just like
the Bear’s Hat.
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Title
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I
Want My Hat Back
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Author
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Jon Klassen
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Illustrator
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Jon Klassen
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Publisher
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Chadwick Press
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Highlights
/Tie in
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Hats, Red Hat, Rabbit, Bear
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Reactions
to the Book
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Q laughed and
pointed to the hat when he saw the bunny wearing the red hat, but saying I
don’t know anything about a hat, why would I know about a hat, I didn’t steal
any hat. He then fell off the couch
laughing when he heard the bear say what rabbit? I don’t know anything about
a rabbit …
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Long after the
dinner… O pulled a video off the shelf and it knocked down a dozen or so …
his response? What movie? I didn’t grab any movie. Why would I take a movie?
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Meal
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Hats:
Orecchiete with carrots (in honor of the rabbit)
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Chicken Salad
Paw Sandwiches: Cut Multi Grain Sandwich Thins and chicken salad
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Dessert: Red
Hats (strawberries, shaped just like the bear’s hat – cones), Bear Paw
cookies
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Reactions
to the Meal
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Pasta hats on
each finger
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Each time they
ate a carrot, they yelled out “what rabbit? I didn’t eat a rabbit”
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On to the next
posting …
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