Pickles

The day we made pickles, it was great. I had an orange pen that was Mom's but she shared them. Sebastian had a green. We made whole pickles, pickle spears and pickle chips. It was a great day making pickles. We even put the labels on it. I can't wait to eat those pickles! The pickle chips... I want to eat them first. The pickles that we like are good, but the pickle chips are from Friendly's. They weren't very different than the pickles at the store. When are we going to try them? 2 days? 2 mumfs? 2 weeks! We decided we're going to try them when we go to the ocean. I think they'll be good!

Making chicken soup

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Play dough!

Meashing flour. And what's Ava doing? Oh. We were making play dough. That's Christopher Robin and that's Ava the Fairy. We're not eating play dough.
Now we're making play dough. We made it with salt, water, flour, food coloring and much more. This post is for play dough makers everywhere! After we mixed ingredients, we colored it, then we played with it after it cooled. It needed to cool because it got hot on the stove, but I don't know why.
Here are all the colors. They are "pink in a bop bop", "yellowy orange golden yellow", "field", "green green green" and "earth teal."
We're playing with play dough. I'm making play dough and jay dough.

Thanksgiving # 02

I liked Thanksgiving. Lydia, her family, and my grandmother, Mimi, came over. This is one of her pictures. I cooked pumpkin pie. We also made bread. We had to let it rise! And after it rose, it was all stiff, so we punched it. We basted and heated our frozen turkey. It wasn't frozen when we put it in the oven. Oh my!!! And I just ate turkey and bread for lunch. But there were many more things on my plate. I sat with Lydia and my brother, Dorian. And after lunch, we played. And there was a concert. It was The White Pants. I loved Thanksgiving. We should have it again next year.

I in the chair. What did you have to eat, Dorian? Pumpkin pie. I have one and you're have one and Daddy have one and Bastian have one and mmmhmmm Dorian's have one. I kanga kangaroo. Do you have anything else to say? Pumpkin pie.

Apple Upside-down Cake-- Yay!

I'm getting the brown sugar out. What I did with the brown sugar was pack it down, and get the sugar out from the bag. Where I put the brown sugar was in the pan.
Then we made our apple parts.
I'm cracking an egg!!!
Now I'm pouring in some milk.
I'm trying on putting on the batter. We were making 2 cakes for me and DeeDee and for Mama and Dada.

Recipe for Apple Upside-down Cake

First, I put in the brown sugar (1/2 cup) in the pan. Then, you put in some apple slices. Then you make the batter. You put in it cinnamon, some milk, 2 eggs, 2 flours--whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour, vanilla, baking powder, salt, and a stick of butter. And I put in Domino sugar. Then you put the batter in the cakes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Keep preheating oven for 45 minutes. The cakes should be, at this point, very yummy. They should be, at this point, inside the oven. Then, you have to take it out of the oven. It's called an upside-down cake because you flip the cake upside-down onto a plate. It tasted DEEELICIOUS!!!

Recipe for making blueberry pie

I'm pouring flour into the bowl. The things already in the bowl are blueberries and sugar. The blueberries came from Guilford. The name is the Blueberry Haus. And we picked them.
I'm pouring the blueberries into the pie dough. That pie dough got in there by Mama spreading it out flat and putting it in the pie pan.
Now I'm helping my mom, Allison, criss-cross the pie strokes.
And this is the whole pie! Yay!!!
I'm too scared for the next picture. The pie was good and this is blueberry pie.

Sebastian's Recipe for Blueberry Pie

You use sugar, flour and blueberries and also you use a little bit of dough so you can do the criss-cross strokes and the pie crust. It tasted good so I ate all the pieces up and my whole plate was filled with blueberry goo. You first put in blueberries (you use about 8 quarts of blueberries) inside the bowl. Then, you put in Domino sugar (white-- you use about a circle that is [makes circle with fingers] this big). Then, you put in almost the same amount of flour. Then, you mix and stir, you mix and stir very gently of the mixture so you don't break the blueberries. That's the warning. Next, you put the dough in the pie pan. The dough comes from.... I don't know where it comes from. Mama made the dough, I mean. Then, you put in the mixture and that's it! Put it in the oven and wait. I don't know what temperature. You can read a book, play an instrument or do something else. It takes about 40 minutes.

Cookies!

I'm measuring flour. We're making Whole Grain Chippers. The cookie.
I'm pouring some sugar. I'm eating a lollipop. The lollipop is: sour apple.
I'm mixing the batter. Batter is a mixture made of food. Try to remember that.
I'm still eating the lollipop. And what else I'm doing is scooping up the dough. We made a very big amount of 12 and 12. 12 and 12 is 24.

Sebastian's recipe for Whole Grain Chippers

You have a just fluffy and hard mixture. What she mixed first was some butter and eggs. 1 pinch salt. And some baking soda. What I measured was flour. The kinds I did were: all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour. What I put in there to make it sweet was Domino white sugar. Mom put in brown sugar to make it extra sweet. We also had to put in there chocolate chips, from the long blue container there were oats, and from the short blue container there were sunflower seeds. Then I mixed it all up. And we put it in the oven so it could bake.

Where I'm gonna take the cookies is to Steven and Jason's house. Me and Steven are going to play together. I'm going to play the same thing what Steven's doing. He's the tallest kid. He's 5. 2 years older than Jason. He's 3.

[Ed. note: Sebastian is wearing a t-shirt featurng the Khmer alphabet on the back. His friend Aidan brought it back from Cambodia for him.]

The recipe for peach pie

I'm cutting up the peaches just as right as I can. The peaches need to be very small to make the peach pie.
I'm making the fluffy mixture.
I'm pouring the peaches into the pie crust. The pie crust came from dough. Mama made the dough.
I'm putting whole milk onto the crisscross crust. Mama sprinkled on the cinnamon sugar.

Sebastian's recipe for peach pie

First, you make the fluffy mixture made with cornstarch and salt and cinnamon and nutmeg. And Domino sugar or brown sugar. I used the Domino white sugar. I thought we had enough peaches to make one hundred peach pieces. How many smithereens of peaches I thought there were: 800. Maybe. First, we cut the peaches up. Then, we needed to mix them with the fluffy mixture. Then, we poured it into the crust. How the other crust got on the top was that the one across you have to put the ones going down picked up a little bit. But don't make them fall apart to ripped! On top of the crisscross part, we put on whole milk and cinnamon sugar. And then you put it in the oven. 850 degrees, I think. I think it needs to bake for 30 minutes. Or less.

This recipe was fun to make but I got sleepy

I'm dropping the bananas into the bowl.
I'm crushing and smashing and hitting the bananas into a wet goo.
I'm pouring the flour into the bowl.
I'm pouring the very fluffy mixture into the very wet mixture.
I'm flattening out the bread that we're making. It's called: banana bread.

Sebastian's recipe for banana bread

You put in the wet mixture made with eggs and bananas and shortnin' shortnin' shortnin' shortnin'. And you put in something sweet, too. The something sweet is--surprise!--Domino sugar. After we've done that, you put in the fluffy mixture made with that Domino sugar. In the fluffy mixture also is some white flour. Daddy was measuring something with the teaspoon which is baking soda. That's all you put in and then you pour it into the wet mixture. And then you pour it into a very big or small pot. Or not so big. Or not so small. And after that you spread it and smooth it out. Then you put the pan into the oven for an hour two times a day. And when it comes out of the oven, surprise again! Banana bread.

The pizza is yummy!-- Uhohohoh

In the first picture, I am getting the flour into the cup. Uh oh, I made a mess!
I am sprinkling the spices onto the cheese. The cheese and the sauce-- mostly I did it. I mostly did all of the sauce which is red sauce for pizza. The pizza's red sauce.
I'm putting red pepper onto the cheese. And I put some yellow and I put some green pepper, too.

Sebastian's recipe for Pizza

How you make the pizza dough is you have to get yeast. Some flour will help. Even please get some water. And please get two kinds of flour. The two kinds are: the little bit brown and the white. And put some olive oil and please put some salt. When it is all ready, punch it. And then put it in a bowl and put a baking towel on top of it and it will wait on some place of the counter or anywhere else in your kitchen. And then let it wait so it can rise.

Then what you do is, you can just have some fun like resting in bed, reading a book on the couch-- whatever you feel like being up to. Then put some red sauce, then put some mozzarella cheese, then put some red pepper, then put some yellow pepper, then put some green pepper. And put some spices and garlic. And then you put it in the oven.

It tastes good and please eat it when it's suppertime!