Cooking with Kids: Themed treats for every season

Victoria Shearer is the author of Leftover Makeovers: Great New Meals from Last Night's Dinner, Slow Cooker Classics from Around the World: Fresh Ideas for Slow Cooking, Quick, Cheap Comfort Food: 100+ Fresh Recipes for Meals in a Hurry, and other cookbooks that contain recipes your kids will love to cook with you... and eat!

A mother and a grandmother, she has lots of experience cooking with kids and for large family gatherings. Here are some of our favorites:

Spring Favorites

• Banana Chips

• Faux Seafood Biscuit Baskets

• Lamb and Couscous Soup

• Ham and Swiss Honey Mustard Crescents

Fall Favorites

• Spooky Halloween Dinner menu

• “Canned” Pumpkin-Gingerbread Trifles

• Turkey Picadillo

• Pumpkin Cannoli Cones

• Autumn Harvest Pork Roast