For their birthdays, buy them chef's hat and uniforms, that will be a lot of fun for them when you have friends and family over for dinner.

Also will be very nice in your beautifully done kitchen.

dcarch

Fabulous! I really don't know how is luckier...the kids or grandma. I'll have to try that machine involvement trick with Beau; he love the machines too.

My goodness Annie! Where have I been? Did you re-do your kitchen? It's gorgeous. I admit thought that I did have a certain fondness for your red countertops!! The kids look fantastic. And so does the food.

Have they gotten tall! It must be nice to have two helpers when cooking and canning. Now how about the recipe for the marinade please.

I wish my kids had a grandma like you to help them learn to cook! I know that I really should be bringing my kids into the kitchen more but in some ways, that is my me time. What a great example you are!

So great to see the kiddos expanding their repertoire of cooking skills. I want to try making the Lime Sauce.

I always enjoyed the pics from your old kitchen, but how much you all must enjoy working in the new one!

Ohyeah, that sauce is one of my most requested what-did-you-make-us-for-Christmas gifts at work.

I am so looking forward to canning with the grandgirl. The Kid is all, "His family is going to feed her candy allll the timmmmmmme...." . And she and I will grow broccoli trees, hehe.

Btw...in that vein, it's giant zucchini time. My young program assistant wants to do food activities with her story time kids so I figured I could drag in my dehydrator and make your gummy worms. We have a lot of organic-minded parents (used to be hippies. ..I don't know what the current term is, lol) so I made a test batch using fruit juice concentrate. They're not like gummies, more like fruit leather. "They taste like the fruit rollups you get in the produce section." Apparently a seal of approval because they disappeared.

LOL, KatieC, I have directions to make them with pineapple juice, I just haven't. It would probably be a lot more healthy, and still no one would know they were zucchini, probably. Elery's youngest son was here today with his wife and their daughter, Emaline. She tested the zucchini gummy worms for me, and I think she approved...

You're going to have so much fun with the grandgirl, just wait!

amck, definitely try the Lime sauce. Jessica said her boys just dipped chips in it and ate it as soon as it was made, it seldom made it as far as meat marinade.

Annie

Wow Annie, they both had growth spurts this summer, eh? Just love seeing them working. LOL. That kale looks great.

One Thanksgiving the grands from New Orleans came up for a vacation and I bnought them each chef coats and hats. They loved them. If I was in your neck of the woods I'd help Mikayla set up her channel. As fast as time flies, she'll know how to do it herself soon!!

It seems like hardly any time ago I was making that layette for Makayla...Boy do I feel old all of a sudden!

Oh my, time sure does fly! Annie, that young man is going to make some woman a fine husband one day. :-) I still haven't made that Chipotle Lime Sauce, but it's on my radar.