I love cooking however with my job and
its awkward hours, I don't often have any spare time to cook. A few
months ago, I was offered a place on a cookery course at the Chequers
cookery school. I really enjoyed it and my skills and confidence in
the kitchen grew massive.
Therefore I jumped at the opportunity
to do a second course aimed at parents and children. The course aimed
to get children and parents or guardians having fun and cooking tasty
and healthy food in an attempt to prevent fussy eaters.
We turned up to find that all the
ingredients and bits we needed had been measured out and put ready
for us. There was also a plate with a mixture of fruit and vegetables
for us to nibble on while we where cooking.
Our teacher was called Pieter and he
was brilliant with the children. He asked if they could name each of
the ingredients and he did things in steps so the children could keep
up.
Pieter all encouraged the children to
do a lot themselves. Although this did cause a few issues! The first
of which was letting Tilly cut up the vegetables with a sharp knife.
She listened carefully to the instructions and used the correct
cutting technique however her hands where so small, she couldn't
quite do it. I offered to hold the vegetables while she cut them. I
honestly thought I would go home with less fingers then I arrived
with!
After we finished our chopping, I
allowed Tilly to do some stirring of the vegetables. She was very
excited and stirred the vegetables with a little too much enthusiasm
and there were pieces of onion and potato flying everywhere.
After we had left for soup to boil, we
started work on our garlic bread. We were given a ciabatta and told
we where going to make our own garlic butter. Tilly didn't recognised
the garlic and asked what it was, I told her it was garlic but she
misheard and thought I said Dalek! That made us both giggle and from
then on we called it Dalek bread!
We them sat and ate our soup and Dalek
bread, it was really tasty and Tilly ate some of the vegetables in
the soup that I wasn't sure she would eat.
Overall me and Tilly really enjoyed our
cooking class and we both learned new skills, had fun and spent some
lovely quality time together. We are both looking forward to our next
class.
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