my little gourmet chefs
So maybe they got this from me...when I was about 8 years old, I had read in school that all you needed to make butter was fresh milk, shake it up really well and poof! Butter. Turns out, if you put milk from the fridge in a jar and shake it up, it does not turn into butter, so I surmised that the simple text book had just left out some ingredients. I enlisted the help of my sister, Sarah, and we went to work to figure out from our own little brains what goes into butter. I recall flour, sugar, salt and pepper in a canning jar and we shook and shook that damn jar. Then, of course, it created a seal that our 6 and 8 year old hands could not get open. We "cleaned" the mess in the kitchen, and hid the jar in the garage, so as not to get in trouble. To this day, I have no idea what happened to that jar of butter:).
About a week ago, my boys, 2 1/2 and 4 3/4, created the most amazing mess to date. I came down stairs (I believe I was napping, Dave at the computer) and found them standing on chairs at the stove stirring a pot of what looked like puke. I exclaimed, "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!?!" They looked at me with no fear in their eyes whatsoever, in fact smiling from ear to ear, they both said, "We're making cheese, Mama!" They had gone through the cupboards that they could reach and grabbed everything possible from the counter tops that looked like a foodish substance. Most of it was from lunch leftovers and the bit of mess from the Chinese sesame balls that Dave had made the night before. And they figured that you must need a new container for each ingredient and a different stirring utensil (for each of them) for each ingredient as well. Pretty much every possible cooking or eating utensil was piled up on the stove top. I don't have exact quantities, but here goes.
About 4-6 cups water
3 packets crystal light (any flavor)
2 cups vegetable oil (very important-best if you pour it into another pan first then dribble it over the stove into the large pot of cheese)
2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich halves
apple peals from one large apple
lots of sesame seeds
1 1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 tbsp MSG
1/2 cup corn starch
salt and pepper to taste
It's a pretty soupy cheese. And it's not done until it looks like a bucket of chunky pinkish puke. Bon Ape`tit!
About a week ago, my boys, 2 1/2 and 4 3/4, created the most amazing mess to date. I came down stairs (I believe I was napping, Dave at the computer) and found them standing on chairs at the stove stirring a pot of what looked like puke. I exclaimed, "WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING?!?!" They looked at me with no fear in their eyes whatsoever, in fact smiling from ear to ear, they both said, "We're making cheese, Mama!" They had gone through the cupboards that they could reach and grabbed everything possible from the counter tops that looked like a foodish substance. Most of it was from lunch leftovers and the bit of mess from the Chinese sesame balls that Dave had made the night before. And they figured that you must need a new container for each ingredient and a different stirring utensil (for each of them) for each ingredient as well. Pretty much every possible cooking or eating utensil was piled up on the stove top. I don't have exact quantities, but here goes.
About 4-6 cups water
3 packets crystal light (any flavor)
2 cups vegetable oil (very important-best if you pour it into another pan first then dribble it over the stove into the large pot of cheese)
2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich halves
apple peals from one large apple
lots of sesame seeds
1 1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup chocolate chips
1 tbsp MSG
1/2 cup corn starch
salt and pepper to taste
It's a pretty soupy cheese. And it's not done until it looks like a bucket of chunky pinkish puke. Bon Ape`tit!