Baby Boomer Grandparent

What fun! What a mess! What wonderful memories and traditions are passed down while working in the kitchen. Each season you can plan a special meal to be prepared and served by your grandchildren for their parents. Because I have so many grandchildren, I divide them into cooks, servers, hostesses and cleaners. We alternate jobs each season. Pull out that oiled cloth and put it on the floor for the two year olds. Put some water and a “little” flour in the bowl, give them a wooden spoon and have them stir up the ingredients. They will love helping and the “real” food will get prepared without mishap. “A good cook always cleans up.” At the end of every session I will say “A good cook” and my grandchildren will shout “Always cleans up.”  Again running water and soap can entertain for hours. Aprons are a must (the plastic ones are best). At Christmas we have all the cooks in the family (boys, girls and Moms – most of the Dads have opted out so a Sunday when football is on is always good) gather together and we bake cookies. We always bake enough so each family has plenty for the holidays. Hot chocolate is a must. It doesn’t matter if the shapes look strange, the cookies always taste great. The first Christmas that we worked with a cookie press, we had a lot of laughs. Grammy had never used a cookie press so our first batches were the size of scones. After Sam, who is 10, read the directions and explained that the press had to be touching the pan before we clicked for the dough, we had perfect shaped cookies.

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