COOKIN' KIDS

I love that my kids love to cook. Everyone of my children love to watch the Food Network and then take their ideas to the kitchen and explore and create. Christine evens wishes that Paula Deen was her mom.

Christine is a fantastic cook! She loves noodles, Mexican style food and dips for crackers or chips. She made the best fish tacos for Carter's birthday dinner with the halibut that Brad caught when he went to Alaska last year.

Daniel loves spicy food. The hotter the better for him. We would watch the Food channel and he would tell me how we needed to change a recipe or come up with ideas of how to make a recipe better. He could cook up some of the best meals (just have the tums ready because he loved to spice it up).

Jason has just recently found this to be fun. Jason loves sweets and tends to go for making desserts, he also loves pasta. He made this cake today and it taste awesome! He made a caramel frosting that went in the middle and then just a buttercream frosting with red coloring for the outside. I was pretty amazed at how it tasted because it didn't look as good as it tasted. He learned that you need to make the frosting more stiff for it to look a little nicer.

I'm so glad that each of them enjoy experimenting and taking on the challenge of baking and cooking. I've always encouraged them to be in the kitchen with me and have asked for them to help out as much as I could get them to and I guess it has payed off.