Cooking with Rosie

At the library last week Rosie discovered a kid's cookbook. We brought it home with intentions to find a few recipes for her to try. We quickly discovered kid's recipes call for ingredients not generally on our shopping list and the project had to be postponed until after we did our shopping on Sunday. The cooking itch had been scratched though, and Rosie wanted to help cook anything, not just what was in the book.

We made French bread together while we were waiting to get ingredients. She really worked the dough over.

She thoroughly enjoyed herself as well...

The next project, from the kid's cookbook this time, was banana smoothies. Aside from being a tad on the thin side, I personally liked them.

Rosie really enjoyed running the blender. Yes, she got her apron dirty, a sign of a good cook!

Becca taught the most recent cooking lesson, gingersnaps. They followed the recipe closely, even letting the cookie dough sit in the fridge for an hour. Talk about a long hour!

Roll the balls of dough in sugar? You bet!

The proud cooks with their creation. Lessons learned from using the kid's cookbook:

1. Just because it is in a cookbook for kids does not mean it is simple.

2. Learning to cook from familiar recipes is a good idea.

Final lesson learned, trying something new is worth the experience, even if we all decide we don't like the taste of molasses.