Recipe Hunting
I've posted some photos here in the past of Fiona helping out with cooking. She's baked cookies and helped her mother bread eggplant for eggplant parm. She loves helping out and is constantly trying to help us out in the kitchen with everything from pouring the dry pasta into boiling water to helping me roll out the dough for samosas (those wound up being a little heavy, as she was more energetic in her rolling than baking experts would advise). We do draw the line at handling raw meat, much to her chagrin.
With this interest in helping out in the kitchen has come an awareness that food has to be made, and a newfound curiosity in how that food is made. So we're constantly answering questions (as briefly as possible) about how to make a sandwich, or pasta sauce, or whatever else happens to be on the plate.
Of course, being as young as she is, Fiona doesn't quite get the distinction between foods that have to be prepared and foods that come ready to eat. So we've had to answer questions such as "how do you make an apple?" where the answer is "you pick it off a tree."
We also get questions like "how do you make a pretzel" and "how do you make flour" which could get lengthy answers, but really all Fiona wants to know is "you open the bag." The idea of foodstuff being prepared elsewhere before it reaches the grocery store shelves is a little beyond her.
As is the notion (and I think this is typical for her age, since I certainly remember thinking the same way) that some foods aren't meant to be eaten on their own but need to be mixed. Once while baking she took a taste of flour and, no surprise, didn't care for the flavor. So now she considers flour to be among the yuckiest foods around, despite our telling her that you can't have a cookie without flour.
The biggest problem we're facing food-wise, however, are onions. Fiona will pick them out of any dish that has them, even if it's a minuscule piece she finds mixed into meatloaf or pasta sauce. And that is a frustration, since it's very hard to cook without onion, and unlike flour they do retain their original form even after being mixed in for cooking. She's not allergic, so we're fighting this one out.
With this interest in helping out in the kitchen has come an awareness that food has to be made, and a newfound curiosity in how that food is made. So we're constantly answering questions (as briefly as possible) about how to make a sandwich, or pasta sauce, or whatever else happens to be on the plate.
Of course, being as young as she is, Fiona doesn't quite get the distinction between foods that have to be prepared and foods that come ready to eat. So we've had to answer questions such as "how do you make an apple?" where the answer is "you pick it off a tree."
We also get questions like "how do you make a pretzel" and "how do you make flour" which could get lengthy answers, but really all Fiona wants to know is "you open the bag." The idea of foodstuff being prepared elsewhere before it reaches the grocery store shelves is a little beyond her.
As is the notion (and I think this is typical for her age, since I certainly remember thinking the same way) that some foods aren't meant to be eaten on their own but need to be mixed. Once while baking she took a taste of flour and, no surprise, didn't care for the flavor. So now she considers flour to be among the yuckiest foods around, despite our telling her that you can't have a cookie without flour.
The biggest problem we're facing food-wise, however, are onions. Fiona will pick them out of any dish that has them, even if it's a minuscule piece she finds mixed into meatloaf or pasta sauce. And that is a frustration, since it's very hard to cook without onion, and unlike flour they do retain their original form even after being mixed in for cooking. She's not allergic, so we're fighting this one out.
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12:10 PM
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