Cooking

My middle daughter has always loved to cook and I so enjoy that. It's something she and I can do together. I can share with her something that is important to me. But last Sunday her older sister came to me and asked me to teach her to cook. I picked myself off the floor and said, ABSOLUTELY!! I am so happy for this. I don't want to send my kids into the world not knowing how to do things like cook, do their laundry, and pay bills. I think it's so important to know how to feed yourself. If you can gather a few ingredients, you can turn basic staples into a beautiful mean.

(I think this is what she felt like, HA!)

Well we had already had our Sunday meal planned and it wasn't an easy one for beginners. We had Chicken and waffles with black berry cobbler with vanilla ice cream. All from scratch. Homemade. Every bit of it. But she wanted to learn and I wasn't going to turn her down. So I first started with the cobbler to see how she'd handle it. She did so well, and was so proud of herself that she was able to take berries, sugar, flour, butter, water and some lemon juice and zest and make into something so yummy. After cobbler, we moved on the hard stuff, fried chicken. I taught her about the pan. While she was doing all that I had the middle child making the ice cream and the waffles. Now, I realize that it sounds like I'm talking about a small child and not a 15 year old, but she's never had a bit of interest in learning to cook. Her motto has always been, "If I learn to do it for myself, THEN I'll have to do it for myself, no thanks!" I mean kinda a smart move if ya ask me. Ha. Anyway, I'm looking for things for her to make that'll be great for beginners. I've started a Pinterest Board for all those recipes, hop on over there and check it out.

(this is what they think they looked like, haha)

Unfortunately, I have no pictures of us cooking, due to the fact that we were cooking with hot oil and I didn't want to let that get out of hand. So I just spent the time guiding them and talking to them. It was great. Hope you all can excuse that. So instead of pictures of my cute teenagers cooking, here are some attractive men! Enjoy!