Cooking With Kids

Zeb decided he is going to be a chef! He didn’t waste any time:

This is one of three cookbooks he got this week. This one has the healthiest and most kid-friendly recipes. It’s his fave because of its pizza recipe:

We found out how yeast makes dough grow. It’s a single-cell organism that eats on the sugar and flour and as it eats it releases gas which is what causes the dough to “rise”. Did you catch that? We’re eating fungi farts!!! Ahahaha

Seriously, some of the best pizza I’ve ever had. He did a great job with only minimal help.

Then we made “turtle bread” and fondue, two more recipes from the same book. I realized after making it that for a family who owns two endangered desert tortoises and is shifting toward vegetarianism, we probably should have shaped this as something else. It was a bit disturbing. But tasty.

Yummy! Pancakes for dinner! He had fun with this one: This would be Chef Vader, I think.

And I made this one myself, a raw peach pie, modeled partially off of Darlene’s recipe with some improvisation where my ingredients differed:

Tonight is a vegetarian lasagna. Oh and if you’re wondering what happened to the going raw thing – we stopped. We felt so great but we both decided that I suck at cooking and life is just to short to not enjoy your food.

We’ve been meat-free the whole time though and Justin – yes! Justin! – expressed interest in staying so. He said he feels good and he’s acquiring a taste for vegetables and fruit. I almost fell off my chair! I’d actually prefer to give up cheese and sour cream (we already use vegan milk and butter) but we can’t find suitable alternatives to those things. But I’m much more anti-dairy than anti-meat right now. We just like cheese so much.