Cooking With The Little

I spent the other day cooking with my youngest child, and she's now enthralled with cooking with momma.

For breakfast we made pancakes. No secret recipe here, I just use the Better Homes and Gardens recipe from a book that was passed down to me from my mom, that she got from her foster mom when she graduated from foster care. I do man a few tweeks of my own. I separate the egg whites and whisk them into stiff peaks as if I were making a meringue. Then I add an extra 1/4 cup of milk to the batter, because we like it thin, and though it says to add an extra 2 tablespoons of milk if you want them thin, they're still pretty thick. There are many a hand written recipe or notes jotted into the margins.

Here we are getting prepared. The Little has her own little apron that she LOVES to wear. Here the Little is showing off her faces that she LOVES to make.

There Little decided that she needed momma to make faces with her.

Here's our pan getting ready for pancakes and our batter in the foreground. I really like to use a big muffin scoop to dole out the pancake batter. I also use it to dole out waffle batter. It makes for more uniform shapes as well as ensuring that I don't have to listen to complaints about who got the bigger pancake.

More smiles from the Little!

Our first pancake in the pan.

The first plate, always the first one(s) for the Little.

Growing up means getting to use the pizza cutter with assistance. A little trick I learned from a friend when we used to live in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I had this friend that had 3 little boys, and she always used a pizza cutter to cut up their food for them rather than just using a fork and knife and it was SO much faster, so I adopted it when I had the Little.

Here's her pan-a-cakes all cut up and waiting for the syrup.

Little tested, and little approved. We had so much fun together.

We donned our aprons again at lunchtime to make tuna sandwiches and tuna wraps. I opened the cans, and she scooped out all the tuna using a spoon.

Rozzy mixed the tuna while it was dry to get it to flake a little more.

Next we mixed in mayo, and dished out the Oldest tuna to make a wrap.

Then we mixed in mustard, because us girls are cool like that and we like it with mayo.

Finally, I chopped up a dill pickle and we added it to the mix because we all like dill pickles!

We had so much fun cooking and making food together that it's become a daily routine to at least make breakfast together.