Cooking - May 20

The kids really want to learn to cook these days. Ga'hoole Girl and I made a list of goals for her for this week and the list includes baking bread and making shortcake. Today, we made French Bread which was pretty successful. It was more dense than we wanted which was probably because the oven was too warm for its rising so it started to bake too early. We will probably also add a little gluten next time. But, Ga'hoole Girl has the hang of the breadmaking process, so she's on her own next time.

Wild Man started his day with a breakfast experiment. He cut up a frozen waffle into pieces and then cut a couple of pieces of lunchmeat into little bits. Then, he put them in a pan and fried them up together. He said it was great.

Then, Wild Man and I made cupcakes. It was from a mix, but I still think it counts as baking. He and Ga'hoole Girl came up with a frosting schema after a rather intense discussion. Basically, Wild Man's cupcakes were frosted white so he could use gel for decorations. Ga'hoole Girl's were frosted with chocolate and then decorated with colored vanilla icing. All in all, it was lovely.

And, I love, love, love my dishwasher. The cleanup from today was incredibly easy.