Girls club was great fun, slightly demanding and always full of surprises. Along the way it provided a unique training ground. In the process of making hundreds of meals-of-encouragement, one at a time, the members of Amah-El learned how to cook, to work in teams, to clean-up their own messes, and how to smile and cope when the pressure was on and everything was going wrong.

And things did go wrong!

There was the day when not one, but two entire recipes ended up on the floor—upside down! Another day ¼ cup, instead of ¼ teaspoon, of salt was added to the main dish. Yet another hilarious disaster presented itself when a teen added 2 cups of brown sugar instead of 2 cups of rice to a casserole. Go figure!

With this book, and your own energy, ideas and investment, you will be in a position to touch young lives by hosting the precise number of events that your time, finances and motivation allow. Even one session would be valuable, but maybe you could do one per quarter, one per month, or, like us, one or more per week.

Whatever your idea, even if your main goal is to spend some quality time in the kitchen with your own children preparing meals for others, just run with it!

By the way, while the Amah-El Club was created specifically for girls, the concepts were equally useful when I ran a six-week cooking course for boys. The plans, menus and tips in this eBook have also been successfully taught in home economics and teen-parent classes.