Today we did loads more cooking together. I did more house sorting, the kids also played with all their newly organised toys and did more reading together too. We also went to the playground and scooted around Monkston on their bikes for a bit.
Caden chose to make a curried carrot and lentil soup. The maths that we get into cooking is amazing. Here he is working out which carrot to remove from the 798g of carrots he put in, to get close enough to 750g carrots. He took a large one out and it went too low, so he put that back in and took out a smaller one which got him closer, and so on. This is fantastic learning for him.
Miles really wanted to make scones. He poured the flour in, the rest of the ingredients and then the milk (a little bit of milk for Miles and a little bit for the scones...)
Then he did the cutting with his baby cutter and very proudly put 10 little scones on a tray for the oven. He had seen Caden putting his things in the oven yesterday so he wanted to do it 'himself' today. He felt very grown up doing it all by himself.
He closes the oven door, gently.
Meanwhile Caden is eating the basil that is meant for the soup, right off the scales....
We then look at our recipe and have all our ingredients ready. Caden watched me use the food processor to grate the 750g carrots. It was a bit noisy for him.
He put the ingredients in to the pan and we talked about safety and how important it is to keep the pan handles pointing away from the room, towards the wall, so little heads don't knock hot things onto themselves.
After this we combined and blended the onions/pine nuts and the carrot/chicken stock mixes, with a hand blender and it was so delicious I had TWO bowls of it for lunch. We also took a bowl of it round to a friend nearby who was delighted and said Caden was doing a great thing by learning how to cook now. Caden was very proud of himself.
The boys are both loving our chickens. They are getting confident around them and they love going out to get the eggs every day.
There were FIVE eggs today. We eat about five a day between us so if they keep it up we won't be spending money on any more eggs. (Though I guess the pellets cost money haha) the chickens are great fun, the kids love them!
We also went foraging today. We collected pears, apples and plums from our own garden. We found blackberries and raspberries to eat on our walk/scoot and we collected some rosehips for juicing. I am planning to take the boys out tomorrow to collect some crab apples from some trees I have seen and more mirabelle plums if I can find any left on the trees.
I have also found a hazel tree around the corner from our house so I am going to keep an eye on that and get them out foraging for fresh hazelnuts in about 2 weeks, if the squirrels don't beat us to it!
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