Our Fruity Girl

Fruit is a perfect thing for kids to mess around with in the kitchen.

• Tastes good
• Good for you
• Doesn't require much messing around with

Molly always wants to help out in the kitchen, but she's especially taken with chopping stuff.  We've recently upgraded her from crappy plastic-handled kid knife to our butter/dinner knives.  Sharp enough to actually get through some things without turning it to mush, but not sharp enough to detach appendages.  Funny, she gets concerned everytime she sees me holding a knife after witnessing the almost-removal of a fingertip while slicing scallions.

She's also been concerned with making fruit salad recently.

And why would we want to discourage that?  We wouldn't, of course.  It's getting easier now that the weather is on our side.  When you're in the supermarket in the middle of February and they have butternut squash and strawberries, and your little girl is begging for them (yes, she actually begs for those things - that's right before she starts begging for ice cream and cookies), it's very, very hard to say, "No, honey, that squash was grown 5,000 miles away in a different hemisphere.  Let's wait until September."

So, we don't say that.  We buy the squash.  Back to the fruit, and the helping out in the kitchen.  I left Molly a note with a "secret mission" when I left for work on Friday.

There were instructions not to open the note until noon.  Apparently, around 9:30 she tried, "...but daddy's not here." 

After finally getting to open it, she was concerned there wouldn't be enough time to make it.  Molly chopped up all the fruit she could find.  Once it's peeled (Tina helping here) you can pretty much go through any kind of fruit with a butter knife. 

Yes, there's some peaches in there from a can, but you've got to learn how to use a can opener too, right?

It was delicious.  Thank you Molly.

Comments

[caren]

secret mission huh? that's the cutest thing i have ever heard... clay also LOVES to cook. he thinks he's hot stuff because he makes scrambled eggs for us all on the weekends. he wants to do more... i figure by the end of the summer clay will be fileting his own fish!

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There is nothing like kids who are excited to be in the kitchen. I have always tried to bake and create in the kitchen with little people...and fruit is so yummy. My mother used to leave me little messages like that as well when I was a kid.

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There is nothing like kids who are excited to be in the kitchen. I have always tried to bake and create in the kitchen with little people...and fruit is so yummy. My mother used to leave me little messages like that as well when I was a kid.

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