Thursday, March 01, 2007

Shaloch manos

The advantages of having an under-three sous-chef: he's free, and when it comes to baking vast quantities of chocolate chip cookies for Purim, he's very, very enthusiastic.

The disadvantage: when allowed to open the brand-new box of baking soda, he is liable to start emptying the entire box into your mixer bowl when you're not looking.

I wouldn't have minded so much if the bowl hadn't already been full of every other ingredient, including all my absurdly expensive imported Israeli chalav yisroel butter...

5 comments:

Alisha said...

Oy! At least he has an excuse -- he's only three. Usually when I try to cook or bake something I end up doing something like that myself. Yesterday, for instance, my hamantaschen dough got, er...a wee bit more vanilla than intended.

I did the rolling/cutting/filling/shaping/baking process tonight...and haven't tasted them yet.

Unknown said...

Every cook has those moments. If some is good, the whole box is better!
Yes,buying yarn is definitely the way that I scratch the knitting itch. What yarn are you using for Eris? Cyndy

Ellie said...

I agree that that trick is worse when you do it to your self-or leave out an imprortant ingredient!I once started with a recipe on the left side of the book and finished with the recipe on the right side. It was mufffins and they were not so bad-but I had to eat ost of them!

AidelMaidel said...

A freilichen purim!

love,
the aidel maidel girls

Anonymous said...

Wrong holiday, kiddo--the one featuring salt and bitter herbs one is coming up soon. ;-)