LG also likes to cook. She got a play kitchen when she was 2 and there are still days when she will "cook" for a long time. She loves to help me measure ingredients and mix them up. I hope to foster a love of cooking in LG since I really enjoy cooking.
One thing that we have done for the past few years is decorate cookies together during the holidays. When she was 2 I attempted to do a gingerbread house with her but I couldn't build the damn thing. Architect I am not! When I saw that our country club was hosting a cooking class for kids and they were going to make gingerbread houses I was thrilled! The chef at the club actually spoke to LG a few months ago and she has been waiting for the day to come.
I stayed with her during the class to help her since the class was supposed to be for ages 6-12. The nice thing was that a few of her pool buddies were there with their parents so it worked out nicely.
When we got there, each child got their own chef jacket and hat. Of course, the jacket was adult size but after rolling it up quite a bit it was fine.
Everything was set out. A million types of candy, pre-cut gingerbread, bags of Royal Icing, the houses we were to build on.....EVERYTHING!
LG and got started. We got the walls up and decided to do the roof. LG wanted to make her roof like Chef Tracy's so we collected all the Nilla Wafer's we could find. The icing was just perfect so everything stayed right were we put it. I was actually enjoying it!
We had a blast decorating. It is pretty hard for me to just let LG do her thing, but I totally let her choose what we did. It was a big step for me ;-)
I really enjoyed our time together that day. It is so much easier to enjoy when youknow you don't have to clean up the mess at the end!
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