we bought like 50 bananas at costco a week ago, and then subsequently ate approximately one of them. so, in an effort to not waste the $1.32-ish that we paid for said bananas, we’re turning them into various forms of baked goods. isaac helped use up about 3 of them in some banana bread: mashing: […]
baking
cookie helper… belated pics.
this took place sometime before christmas. i’m a little bit delayed in posting… my apologies. also, some apologies for the onslaught of posts that is about to commence.
christmas cookies, round 2
last saturday, mandy and her girls came over and we finished baking cutout cookies and then decorated them. isaac decorated one cookie, ate it, and ate two undecorated cookies and called it quits. the girls hung in till the bitter end and decorated a zillion cookies. the last is my favorite.
cookie apprentice
isaac and i decided it was time to to a little holiday cooking. he helped make the cookie dough, by reading numbers on the recipe and counting out the ingredients. and by sticking his fingers into sugar and licking them. both were very helpful. then, we got down to the fun part… cutting out the […]
helping?
isaac’s version of “helping mom cook” has been getting progressively more and more messy.someday he’ll understand that this is not helping. for now, i’ll let him get away with it, because he’s pretty cute.
baking and coloring
isaac helped make his birthday cake this morning: and then he did a little coloring:
helping
whenever i make anything, isaac wants to sit on the counter (“right there”) and “hep mama”…sometimes, help can come in the form of putting in some ingredients and/or stirring. other times (usually) it means licking beaters and poking fingers into tasty looking batters or ingredients (like sugar, which he calls “rice”). anyhow, here are some […]
family visit
late tuesday night (early wednesday morning, actually), my parents and jake rolled into town. since then, it’s been a festival of eating, playing the wii, more eating, shopping, cooking, eating, gifts, and eating. here’s jake and isaac contributing their strongest skills to the cooking: on christmas, isaac wasn’t as interested in getting gifts as […]