Cooking with Love

Wednesday morning, Tia Julie, Willem, Ellie and I set out to begin our Thanksgiving preparations. I love the holidays and all the preparations. This year we decided to cook as much as possibly on Wednesday, so Thursday we could enjoy our time with Opa and Lita and the Torry side of the family. Willem was really excited to be cooking.

We tackled the hardest dish first with Tia Julie and Willem chopping 3 big onions and peeling lots of apples for a yummy Butternut Squash Soup. Lesson #1 Don't touch your eyes after you've been chopping onions. We thought we'd lost a man after that experience but Chef Willem came back to the Learning Tower and carried on.

Jason and I bought this apple peeler during our time in Iowa before Willem was born. Loved seeing him get so much enjoyment out of it.

Our joyful sous chef helped us a lot by taking good long naps and test tasting all the fixins for us.

Food always tastes better after you touch it to your head.

Willem made most of the cranberry jello dish all by himself.

Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without Grandma's famous noodle dish. They made the dough and let it dry and a few days later, Willem cut the noodles just like Julie and I grew up doing on Thanksgiving.

Ellie liked the dough and the flour. The side items were ready to go and Julie and I were ready for our nap.