Becca's Cooking

Making potatoes... and other things

Today's efforts by Becca in the kitchen included making parts of all three of her meals for the day...

For breakfast, Becca showed Mom that as a 10-year-old, she can break eggs better than her parent, with no shells ending up in the bowl. At her age, I am not afraid to admit, successfully cracking the egg shell, getting the yolk and white into the bowl intact, and NOT getting any shell in with it was a real challenge for me. So much so that I actually refused to do anything that involved eggs for a very VERY long time, unless someone else was available to do the breaking for me. My young chef has once again shown me that it is possible to encourage our youngsters to find the joy in a simple task. She made scrambled eggs this morning for her breakfast to demonstrate this fact. This was followed by assisting in making "from scratch" mashed potatoes (with some help from both parents) as part of dinner. Normally relying on the quick and easy box of potato flakes (time just doesn't seem to be there in our busy schedules), we decided to use up some potatoes (Yukon Golds--great taste in this one) in our dinner tonight. Becca served as vegetable washer--armed with vegetable brush, a collander, and her trusty step-stool at the sink. After we cooked them on the stove, flavored by a bit of butter, garlic and rosemary, Becca took over the mashing and serving. It was an excellent addition to our meatloaf and green bean dinner! What's next? Come back and check out the next time Becca visits the kitchen...

posted by DarBecca @ 7:41 PM