Thursday, January 29, 2009

Bake-off

On Saturday morning I got up and made a new recipe for breakfast that involved biscuit dough rolled up around little chunks of cream cheese and baked with syrup. They weren't a total hit; not even something we wanted to fiddle with to make better in the future.

Later that day, Maddie and I decided to make a new pie. It's an apple-pear crumble pie. I don't know if that's the official term, but that's what it involves. It also involves cream cheese and Mike thought it was daring to try yet another cream cheese experiment in the same day.

In this case though, Maddie was the head baker. I was just the assistant. She did almost everything herself and I was mostly in charge of double-checking - making sure she'd done it correctly.

Jake is normally the kid in our family that will drop everything to help bake. However, last Saturday he had a yucky cough and was not allowed to touch the food. Not a happy camper at all. We finally relented and allowed him to photograph this momentous occasion. Here's a few of his shots; he's apparently more into the abstract pictures...no cheesy smiles. Or faces for that matter.

The crumb mixture on the bottom...
The sink after peeling....



The garbage....I just think it's funny he took a picture of the garbage...



Maddie was SO excited to get to mix things with her hands...


This picture was after we suggested to Jake that he actually take pictures of us...

Right before the oven...

And the pie? Four thumbs up! It's definitely going into the recipe book for keeps; but we'll have a notation that says Maddie is in charge of making this one.

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