Since your family are a light cookers, then it will be fine to have a open kitchen that combine both wet and dry kitchen.

I will suggest you can have a full height kitchen cabinet in front for oven and kitchen storage with a bar counter top. This will make the front kitchen as dry kitchen and a good place for light breakfast, family gathering and baking sessions.

Then the main cooker and basin can be place at the back for daily light cooking sessions.

Also consider placing the refrigerator at the middle of these two zones, so you can access easily from both dry and wet kitchen areas.

With this layout arrangement, we can make sure the kitchen has different zonings that will suits different actitivies to be carried on at the same time by different family members without conflict to each others.