Many hands make light work

I feel I am being rewarded for all of those slightly stressful, messy and sometimes time sucking cooking sessions I did with the girls when they were very little because today they were super helpful and really independent to the point where they were doubling up our food preparation time.

Look at that action. Big Sis made wholemeal cheese scones...

Little M slowly turned this into crumble, they worked at separate tables at the same time...

Then they pitted plums for the crumble while I got on with making soup (yep, courgette soup, how did you guess!?!)

 

Next, Little M made cream cheese icing and then passed it to Big Sis for the courgette cake which she jammed and iced all on her own.

Lastly, Little M made water icing for her completely unaided icing and decorating session.

I just kept providing the next bowl of things with a simple instruction - mix, stir, spread, cut, tickly fingers or even 'just have a go yourself' and off they went. There was a sort of British Bake Off running commentary as we worked, where I had to pretend I was Mary Berry but heyho it got the job done.

 

Lunch anyone? Courgette and pesto soup, cheese scones followed by plum and apple crumble. Oy don't be greedy, the cakes are for tomorrow.

The ingredients and inspiration behind our food today was from the allotment...

We just scoffed the raspberries!

Thanks for stopping by. Are you tuning into the Bake Off? My girls are rooting for Martha.

Jo x