Owlowiscious Girls

This week for our cooking class we made Spider Web Soup from our October Raddish Box theme Fright Night Feast.  Ariana is getting better at chopping veggies!  It is still hard to chop onions because- ouch!- they make your eyes burn and water.  We tried goggles but she said, "They did nothing!"  Ah!  That reminds me of a Simpson's episode.  Any way, on this recipe card we also learned how to make basic soups, the nutrition of black beans, and the science of spider webs.   This recipe was fun, but the sour cream web made my daughter nervous about getting it wrong so I ended up having to do that part.  She is excited to make it again because    Taste: Ariana said this was the best thing ever!!!  She even ate Hermione's and Lucy's share because they still wouldn't eat much because they said they don't like beans.  I thought it was also delicious especially for beans because sometimes those are hard to get tasty sometimes.   Lucy's

For Ariana's 7th birthday this year she asked to learn how to cook.  I am no stranger to the kitchen and I don't have a problem with kids in the kitchen I honestly didn't know where to start!  It is so overwhelming because there is so much to learn....enter  Raddish !  I stumbled across this website while on vacation this summer.  It is a box subscription to teach kids how to cook.  It costs $25 a month.  Every month has a new theme, a patch, a kitchen tool, 3 recipe cards, a ring of table talk cards, and an extra activity.  On the website there is a link called Bonus Bites which includes a playlist which goes along with the theme!  I love themes so this is perfect for us. Our first Box was called Bites From Brazil  because this year the summer Olympics was in Brazil.  It was great that since we don't have TV channels that conveniently  we were on vacation at a hotel so we were able to watch the opening ceremonies.  I am not a big sports fan but I am a fan of pe