A Dinner at "Chez Jensienne" with resident chef... Olivia!
This year we wanted to help Olivia complete her last few items in her Faith In God Booklet. Of course one of them is to ... "plan and prepare a nutritious meal for your family". And so last night she did it! Olivia is one of those kids who is not intimidated by a project. She does not procrastinate one, either, which always kind of throws me off guard, as that is my usual 'mod us operond'! She got a Paula Dean First Cookbook for Kids for Christmas, so I told her to go to that for the recipes. So, when I came down to the kitchen in the morning, I had a paper marked "Shopping list" carefully placed on the counter. She had decided on vegetarian cuisine. I purchased a few ingredients, and she did the rest! Everyone loved it, even our worst critic, Kate!
sweet and savory baked potatoes
steamed broccoli and cauliflower with 'magic' sharp cheddar sauce
pineapple and red grape fruit salad with plum peach puree
tossed garden greens (with a little help from today's JFM Drug Rep Lunch... a great chef always makes full use of her resources ;)
dressing selection: raspberry vinagrette or old fashioned buttermilk
(dessert was to be homemade cinnamon pretzels, but it was postponed for a future FHE -- mom had a 7pm meeting, and we can only dirty so many dishes on a school night!)
5 comments:
Wow Olivia! I am completely impressed! She really is a great kid. How proud you must be :)I might need a few cooking lessons from her...my skills are still "developing".
That looks fabulous! Olivia, you can cook for us anytime.
Oh hey! I see you found the water bottle =D (hee-hee) Awesome dinner Liv!
I love how colorful your meal is. Mine should look more like that!
Mmmmm, that looks like an awesome dinner! Will you come cook for me sometime, Olivia?
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