Apple Stew: Recipe by a Six Year Old
Last night I babysat three of my favorite kids who are ages 2, 4, and 6. We had some very interesting dinner conversation!
The oldest, a girl, was trying to find a creative way to say “stupid” without actually saying it, thus avoiding getting in trouble.
“That’s stu-apple-did!” she said, smiling proudly.
After a few minutes of repeating this to test me, while her younger sister, the 4-year-old, repeated, “I think it’s booty-ful,” (”booty” is outlawed in this household), she realized she was saying something close to “apple stew.”
“I’m going to make some apple stew!” said the oldest.
“What’s in apple stew?” asked her sister.
“I imagine it would be similar to applesauce,” I added. “Because that’s how you make applesauce - by cooking apples in a big pot.”
But the chef-to-be had other plans. So here is a 6-year-old’s recipe for how to make apple stew:
“You cook 10 apples with 4 bananas, then add some whipped cream. But it’s not really a stew, that’s just the name. It’s really more of a dessert.”
And there you have it. Apple stew, the creation of a budding young chef. If I had more time with them, and all of the ingredients, I would have let her put this concoction together as dessert.
I think it is very important to let your kids try things out in the kitchen (so does their mother, so I know she would have been okay with me doing this). I am a healthy eater that is fearless in the kitchen, and I believe that it is because my mom let me play around with foods. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. I remember making “cookies” one time by melting two or three different kinds of chocolate chips together, adding some mint flavoring, blobbing it on a piece of wax paper, and letting it freeze. Nothing special, but I learned how to make and use a double boiler!
February 28th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Hmmmmm,was your mom actually home when you did this?
March 1st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Don’t play that with me, Mom! You were a supporting accomplice!