MasterChef Junior selected me as a MasterChef Junior Inspired Cooking Sets Blogger and provided me with a box of Cooking Tools!But everything I’m sharing with you is from the heart!
MasterChef Junior is back for a 4th season, airing Nov. 6 at 8/7c on FOX and we’re excited! My boys love cooking with me and we fell in love with MasterChef Junior during the 2nd season. I love that it gives the best junior home cooks in America the chance to showcase their culinary abilities and passion for food through a series of delicious challenges. It helps to encourage kids that they can do anything they set their minds too.
Each episode, host and award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay is joined by acclaimed chef Graham Elliot and our newest judge Christina Tosi on the MasterChef Junior judging panel.

MASTERCHEF: L-R: Graham Elliot, Gordon Ramsay and Christina Tosi in the all-new “Junior Edition: New Kids on the Chopping Block” Season Four premiere episode of MASTERCHEF airing Friday, Nov. 6 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr. Greg Gayne / FOX. © 2015 Fox Broadcasting Co.
Enjoy a little sneak peek into the first episode:

I always find it funny how kids will eat the things that they help make. For example…In the below picture, the boys were using one of the new MasterChef cooking kits to make potato cakes. My four-year old swears he doesn’t like potato anything. If he hears it has potatoes, then he won’t even eat it. Let the kid make his own potato cakes, and he eats them like crazy. For me, it’s the best way to get them to try new foods. I always tell them that if they don’t taste different foods, then how are they going to be a good cook. They have to know how different flavors and spices complement each other.
As part of the MasterChef Junior kick-off, I’m excited to be able to bring a chance to WIN to one of my readers. One As They Grow Up Reader has a chance to win a MasterChef Junior Baking Set. This would make the perfect holiday gift for the little chef in your life!! These are real cooking tools that are designed to bring the family together to cook up a MasterChef Junior-Worthy masterpiece! Complete with mouth-watering recipes, they will educate kids and inspire creativity and for the entire family!!