Luke has always loved helping me in the kitchen. But it's always controlled...very controlled. I realized the other day, that I've never given him the opportunity to really explore and play with cooking and real ingredients. One day last week I needed him to be busy so I could cook dinner, so I gave him some real food that we had on hand (flour, an egg, salt, sugar, sprinkles, nuts, chocolate chips, colored water), and I let him add and mix everything all by himself to make his very own concoction. This might have been his favorite activity ever. When I asked him what he was going to make, he said doughnuts. And he was SO proud of his doughnut batter!
Wearing Daddy's apron and SO excited!
All of his ingredients were in the muffin tin (to contain the mess). He loved adding the colored water.
But his favorite thing was cracking the egg! He still talks about that egg.
I was shocked that he didn't even eat any of the ingredients and didn't even try to taste the batter (which he loves to do). Although once he was done adding all his ingredients, it did look pretty disgusting. But still, he took his task very seriously.
Chef Luke
The only bad thing was that he was ready to cook and eat his doughnuts when he was done. Oops.
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