cooking with the kids + a bonus

On a recent snow day I made a chicken pot pie from The Pioneer Woman's cookbook.  It was really yummy and pretty easy to make.  I had an extra pie crust, so I gathered my little helpers and a few ingredients so that we could work on a flat apple pie for dessert together.

They LOVE helping in the kitchen.  Just look at their eager faces!

They started chopping up the apples with butter knives for me.

They each had their own technique.

Of course there was much sampling.

After all of the apples were chopped, it was time to add some other ingredients.

Flour, spices, and sugar.

How does one clean up spilled sugar?  Certainly this isn't the way!

Taking turns

Now it's time to mix!

And of course some more tasting.

Such happy helpers!

Now it's time to roll, what K & T have been waiting for since they saw the rolling pin

S-T-R-E-T-C-H buddy!

She was much more dainty in her rolls.

We did it!  We carefully put the dough on a pan.

We dumped the apple mixture on the dough.

And folded the edges over.

Lovely right?

I put it in the oven and we ate dinner while we waited for it to bake.

He actually tried the pot pie, he liked the filling more than the crust.

She gobbled dinner up, her taste buds continue to amaze me.

Here's our creation, pretty good for a mom with a camera and two preschoolers.

T was very happy at dessert time, he IS Mr. Sweet Tooth.

K was very pleased with our 'work'.  

Thanks for helping K & T, you two are super duper in the kitchen!

Here's the bonus, we saw this thing on clearance at the mall last month.  It's a miracle that we didn't bring it home. But both Daddy & T were super impressed.  They probably would have wanted it in our yard year round.  Maybe next year boys!