October 1, 2013 12:00 am
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Danielle Frost/Post-Record Heidi O'Connor, executive director of The Kids Cooking Corner, instructs her students on how to safely peel an apple. The group made pie, festive salad, and a cheesy butternut squash casserole.
Danielle Frost/Post-Record The young chefs say grace before they enjoy a meal everyone helped prepare.
Danielle Frost/Post-Record Apple pie is a signature fall dessert. Students taking classes at The Kids Cooking Corner learned how to make a simple version of the dish, which included coconut and granola topping.
Danielle Frost/Post-Record Everyone helps at The Kids Cooking Corner. Volunteers supervise as the children stir, slice, dice and chop various foods.
You could say that cooking is a career for Heidi O’Connor, but that might be selling it short.O’Connor, of Vancouver, lives and breathes the culinary arts at The Kids Cooking Corner, a school that teaches children, “the art and joy of cooking.”
The 45-year-old mother of three opened the school three years ago, when she realized her son didn’t know how to make a box meal because he didn’t understand how to measure ingredients.
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