Adele has discovered cookbooks.
And it's wonderful!
She and I both enjoy reading them, and sometimes we actually read them together while sitting on the couch or table.
Last week, she made the most delicious scones any of us had ever tasted.
She also made sugar cookies (not shown here, but I can still remember the taste of them if I close my eyes.)
She also made lemon eclairs- Twice!
Eclairs!
What I love about Adele is that she's only thirteen, so in her mind, anything is possible as she reads these cookbooks.
She doesn't have to work through failures/ baggage I've have to work through to try more difficult recipes.
She just goes for it, and it usually ends up alright.
So her attitude is very inspiring to an old cook like me.
We're not eating everything she makes ourselves.
We have had several occasions to share her baked goods with friends at church or dinners or parties.
Now she wants to make meatloaf. This is thanks to Ree Drummond's cookbook with the most enticing, mouth-watering photographs.
So I plan to let her help me make dinner one night this coming week.
Her sister, Avril, can cook, too, of course.
In fact, Avril's cooking the bacon in the oven for tonight's "breakfast for dinner."
But, Adele is the one really passionate about baking and cooking right now, and she's cranking out the goodies daily.
And we all really appreciate this.
I started making the girls bake/ cook several months back.
I'd literally assign them a recipe as part of their homeschool day.
And obviously, I'd give them the time to do it.
I'd start with simpler things like a box brownie or muffin mix or a simple from scratch recipe like no-bake, nut-butter energy balls.
With repetition of those simpler recipes, they both gained confidence and competence and they can do harder things now.
Like eclairs!
And now that Adele has some skill and she has discovered the potential inside the pages of my cookbooks...
Magical things are happening here!
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