My girls have been interested in cooking since they could sit on the counter and help us make meals - pouring, stirring, whatever they could do to help. As they get older, they do more. Our ten-year-old makes entire meals with minimal help. In fact, she created a basic spaghetti sauce recipe that is truly one of the best I've had. There are the occasional kitchen disasters, or meals that just don't quite come together, but overall her skills are impressive.
In this case they used a couple of recipes from Cat Cora's book, Cooking from the Hip".
We were able to meet Cat last year at The Taste of Colorado, a local celebration where restaurants provide samples of their specialties, musical groups perform, artisans set up stalls, trade groups hold court (the girls got some neat educational materials from the mining industry), and companies hold promotional events. Cat was promoting Sensodyne toothpaste, and part of the promotion involved free cookbooks for those who could answer cooking related trivia questions. Your humble author had a right answer, and sent his excited daughter up to collect the autographed book and meet Cat Cora. Understand that the Food Channel is one of the few television channels we allow our girls to watch, and they loved the Iron Chef America program when Cat was involved. Wow, talk about a kid who couldn't quit grinning for quite a while! The Sensodyne rep who was kind enough to take our daughter's picture with Kat and email it to us. Cat was a great treat to meet.
At any rate, the dinner tonight was terrific. The kids had fun, the parents had a fine meal, and the girls got some experience as cooks and hostesses. As I type this, the four girls are upstairs having a sleepover. Bless their little hearts, and thanks be to God for such a wonderful blessing.
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