I remember spending hours in the kitchen with my mom and grandmother...baking cookies, cakes, cooking and making pies...as a matter of fact, one of my most memorable gifts from my bridal shower was from my mom (along with a vacumn sweeper)....a hand pastry blender, and cans of cherry pie filling....we would spend so many special hours cutting in the butter to the flour for the pie crust, learning how to crimp the edges and making all kinds of pies...especially banana cream pie....filled with homemade custard. Now, my girls are in the kitchen a lot during the course of the day....and Anna is right there with us on her little stool helping. She LOVES to cook and bake with us!
She was having so much fun helping make a large salad the other day...she enjoyed this little gadget so much! It is called a spiralizer and as you press down and turn, you can make 'angel hair' like ribbons of raw veggies....she made lots of zucchini ribbons and beet ribbons to add to our salad.
Anna loves to be in charge of cutting the mushrooms for us....and is such a "chatterbox", that the time flies while we talk and cook!
She was cracking Sara up while she 'pricked' the potatoes before baking in the oven, and was so proud of herself for helping make dinner! She proudly told everyone what SHE had made while we were eating!
~I think it is so very important to teach our daughters how to cook and bake! Especially from scratch....it is healthier and much less expensive than buying box mixes or getting take-out food. I especially love telling stories when I was little or their grandmothers were young...and teaching them the recipes that have been in our family for generations....hoping that they will pass them along and keep the traditions alive. Tonight, we had my great-grandmothers beef soup ( I had posted the recipe in a previous post) and Anna, who has never met her great-grandmothers, talks about these recipes as if she knows them now...and how proud they would be of her! LOL
She was having so much fun helping make a large salad the other day...she enjoyed this little gadget so much! It is called a spiralizer and as you press down and turn, you can make 'angel hair' like ribbons of raw veggies....she made lots of zucchini ribbons and beet ribbons to add to our salad.
Anna loves to be in charge of cutting the mushrooms for us....and is such a "chatterbox", that the time flies while we talk and cook!
She was cracking Sara up while she 'pricked' the potatoes before baking in the oven, and was so proud of herself for helping make dinner! She proudly told everyone what SHE had made while we were eating!~I think it is so very important to teach our daughters how to cook and bake! Especially from scratch....it is healthier and much less expensive than buying box mixes or getting take-out food. I especially love telling stories when I was little or their grandmothers were young...and teaching them the recipes that have been in our family for generations....hoping that they will pass them along and keep the traditions alive. Tonight, we had my great-grandmothers beef soup ( I had posted the recipe in a previous post) and Anna, who has never met her great-grandmothers, talks about these recipes as if she knows them now...and how proud they would be of her! LOL
~Well...I'm off to watch "Emma" with Meghan while waiting up for Sara to get home from babysitting. Time alone with my oldest daughter...doesn't happen as often as I would like! Have a blessed weekend! ~Sue~
