Somehow, during school year we don’t have much time or imagination for cooking. It’s mostly cupcakes. This summer break we have done some more adventurous (for kids) cooking, and most of it was initiated by Mya. So far – she wanted to learn how to cook potato chips, two-colored shortbread biscuits, sugared rose petals and marshmallows.
I really like the break from cupcakes.
For Potato chips (it was late dinner and I didn’t take any pictures) – she independently peeled a potato with ceramic peeler and I showed her how dicer works. She was very exited about it and immediately peeled another potato to slice it into rings! We’ve put it in a zip-lock bag with a bit of oil and herbs and she really enjoyed shaking it before pouring the contents on the baking tray. She then helped by topping and tailing runner beans with her ceramic knife. Mya was very proud of making contribution to the dining table.
She saw a picture of sugared rose petals and wanted to make her own. We cut a couple of the prettiest roses from the garden, then I found a recipe that used syrup instead of raw egg and she enjoyed making it, but in my opinion it didn’t turn out well – the petals stuck to the baking paper and completely lost their shape. If anyone have a good recipe for that – please share.
When making two-tone shortbread I managed to squeeze some maths on measurements and fractions. Really loving this trio of books Kitchen Table Maths by Dr. Wright . Really good guide for teaching maths for someone like me who was never very good at it.
Today we made marshmallows (cheating and using a kit from Sainsbury). Surprisingly – it didn’t have any unusual or difficult ingredients, so we might attempt these again from scratch, and Mya suggested that next time we could experiment by putting some flowers or berries in it.
On the crafting front – Mya has asked me to make her a map-printed dress. I’m onto it. I think I have to research digital printing on fabric. It sounds like it might be cheaper than buying fabric with prints that interests me..
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