Dear all the parents and caregivers watching kids through these tough times: thanks for you all your hard work!

Here is an absolutely free download of a kids’ cookbook recipe for hand-rolled grandma pasta Sohail Zandi, owner and chef at Brushland Eating House, and I made a few years back:

DOWNLOAD THE FULL PDF HERE.

Sohail and the whole Brushland team are trying their hardest to keep their staff paid through everything Corona-related. If you like the recipe and would like to help them, please donate to their Venmo “Brushlandeating” whatever you think is appropriate. Anything helps.

The longer story behind this book idea:

A few years back my good friend Sohail told me cooking his delicious food is so inherently simple kids could do it. That got me thinking. A few giant meals, brainstorms, and paintings later we pitched a kids’ cookbook full of his recipes. The idea was to get kids cooking in really kinetic ways. Sure, your kids weren’t going to cook you dinner. But they’d be pretty entertained for awhile and once everything was done you (parents) would have a pretty solid meal too.

We thought we were brilliant. Apparently, we were not. The response from the publishing world was a resounding: “NO. Only Rachael Ray , Alice Waters, etc. can make kids’ cookbooks.” So we moved on. Well, until now. Because maybe this will make someone’s afternoon a little better, and dinner too.

So please enjoy!

-SW & SZ

PS - also please excuse any typos, etc. This is very much a beta version of our imagined book.

PPS - tried this tonight with my 2.5 year old Amina. She was INTO it.