About me

I am a scientist working in a medical research institute in the DC area. After my daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 5 years ago I shifted my area of research to diabetes. I am married to the most supportive and loving man that comes from the hotel management industry and am a mom to three wonderful kids; 10 year old girl, 8 year old and 2 year old boys and a dog, a real energy booster... I am also a children's author and have one book published in Hebrew titled Tal and the Secret Treasure.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Family chefs

The other day my son had decided to help me make dinner. He dragged one of our heavy dining room chairs into the kitchen, climbed up and said we were going to cook his favorite dish. 'What that might be?' I wondered, especially since both of my kids are not exactly food fans, they eat in order to survive, not even one crumb more than that, and even this minimal time they spend eating is a waste of their precious time that could much better be used for play if you'd ask them. "Something really good" answered my 5 year old "you'll see" he smiled and made me his sous chef. "I need green olives, cherry tomatoes and sour cream" he ordered and since he asked for a nice combination of ingredients I decided to go with it. I pulled out a small chopping board, a plastic knife that if you are consistent enough can be used to cut soft vegetables but not little fingers and a large enough bowl, since I had no idea what else we were to use. "What are we making?" I tried again but got the "it's a secret food" answer and "soon you'll see". My son cut the cherry tomatoes and my job was to cut the green olives. He add them to the bowl and asked me to add "4 scoops of sour cream", no more no less. Next he asked for 3 eggs. "Oh, are we making an omelette?" it seemed like a great omelette recipe "maybe we can add some more eggs, this way everyone will get to eat it" I suggested and put a pan on the stove top. "No, it's not an omelette" my son was amused by my lack of basic understanding in secret recipes. "This should go into the oven" he explained. "Oh, is it a quiche?" I tried again. "Yes!!!" he cheered. "So maybe we should add some flour to it? What do you say?", my 5 year old gave me his cute OK and I suggested some salt but he disagreed on that part so flour yes, but we didn't add any salt, that was his dish and I was not allowed to make changes in the recipe. Then we transferred the batter into a baking pan and baked it. It was very much eatable, could use some salt, but otherwise a nice quiche, and my son's first kitchen creation. I wonder where he got that recipe from.

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