Cooking Class - Ally's request

Ally asked that we host cooking class this month so we did. We made 2 kinds of chili - one with turkey and one without any meat. Corn bread in several forms, muffins, mini muffins and cake-type squares. The hit was dessert- Whoopie Pies!! We agreed they tasted more like oreos than whoopie pies but they were yummy. Watching the kids try and get as much powdered sugar and frosting into them as possible was pretty entertaining as well.

Preparing vegetables for the chili - mushrooms and carrots. They also used sharp knives to slice zucchini and peppers. This was the first time we let them actually handle sharp knives. They did great.

I learned it takes a 5 year old a really long time to use a can opener - and chili has a lot of cans - it took forever - to get the beans and tomatoes opened, rinsed and in the pots.


My favorite thing was the honey. They asked to taste the honey (in the cornbread). Each child - Ally (in blue) Zach, Thora, Mia and River - held out 2 fingers and I would squirt honey on their fingers, which they would promptly suck off. It was priceless to see. We actually did 4 rounds of honey tasting - 2 for each batch of cornbread.

Ally getting ready to assemble the whoopie pies.

The whole gang.

I served the chili with cheese and corn chips in a effort to entice them to try and eat it. Ally has decided she likes chili so she did pretty well, and every child did try it and eat enough to get dessert.