My Cooking Channel

Welcome to my show. Today, my assistant and I will be demonstrating how to make a nice woodchip sorbet. Come, let's start. It's sooooo easy.

Happy 5th Birthday K!

Happy birthday K! Thanks for inviting Didi and I. We had a wonderful time.

That's me in the pink blur on the left. How many kids can jump together in a bouncy castle? I don't know. Let's find out.

Didi enjoyed himself with all the 3 year olds.

Can you find us?

Game on! Don't get squished under the ball! That truly would be a competitive game.

Didi loved the sports on this side.

Time for a snack and break.

Didi liked his pop rocks lollipop. So fizzy.

Thank you Great Grandmother!

Thank you so much for the beautiful dress, great grandmother and Auntie A! It's perfect.

DiDi is back at Gymnastics!

It's been a whole year, but DiDi is back in the bouncy mode at gymnastics.  He loves it!

Spring has arrived!

April showers bring May flowers.

Afterschool with My Friends

We are playing down the hill!
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Didi's Angry Birds

Didi made a special level of Angry Birds for mommy. She's in Fort St. John right now. Nice! Now where is that catapult?

Happy 7th Birthday A!

Happy birthday! We had a great time!

Baby A isn't so small anymore. He's 1!

A masterpiece!

Strawberries, pansies, kale, chard, beet and something else.

Hanging Out with Dai KauFu

High five!

Coffee for sale!

The class learned about Ethiopia and fair trade coffee this week. The kids ground up the coffee beans and had a coffee stand, selling it with Ethiopian honey bread.

The coffee sign was painted in coffee.

They actually raised $240 today, just from preschool parents picking up & dropping off. Funds go to a school in Ethiopia.

What?! Mangoes are nuts??

Oh my goodness! Mommy just found out that mangoes are in the same family as cashews & pistachios. TJ is allergic to peanuts, and tree nuts such as almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts AND cashews & pistachios. The allergy doctor tested all those. 

A peanut is a groundnut, a legume. So are soy beans! Hence the cross-reaction and allergy to both.  And the milk protein allergy is just there. 

Didi loves his frozen and dried mangoes for snack.  Mommy is going to stop mangos (juice, dried, fresh, frozen, sorbet) to see if it helps his skin.  She already stopped his macadamian nuts last week.

The mangos are the same family as a nut!   Mango skin, cashew shells & pistachio shells have the same toxins as poison ivy. ... Because they are related. Crazy right? Well, who would have thought there was some truth to the Chinese superstition about NOT eating mangoes when one has skin eczema!

No nuts, mangoes, milk or soy for Didi. Mommy's research continues. 

April 8/2012 - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

I explained to Daddy and Mommy how the Easter bunny was fake this year. Last year, he had bunny feet. This year, he had human feet!

After lunch, we found a whole carnival at Lansdowne mall parking lot today! We fished for prizes, rode the merry go round and ate blue/pink cotton candy. It was a very nice discovery.

My Blankie!

As soon as Mommy unbuckleted my seat belt when we arrived in Bellingham, I raced to the back and climbed over into the trunk to get my blankie. I wanted that the WHOLE trip!

Now, we are off to find the Tefal AirFry machine. We need to make our own french fries. Did you know that McDonald's fries have "natural beef flavour" in them? They have cow's milk powder rolled into the potato mix. So, poor DiDi... they are off limits to him now.

Soda Can Chicken

Mommy made her first roast chicken for DiDi. The roast chickens from Safeway and Costco must have butter because they always make Didi's skin itch and go red. So, we put broth in a pop can, coated the inside of the chicken with salt, put the broth can inside the chicken and roasted the bird! Yum!

As you know, DiDi cannot have any NUT, DAIRY or SOY product. He is very allergic. Mommy has to learn to be a better cook.

Easter Weekend - Happy Easter!

We went to the community center and had a great Easter party.  The I-band and Rainbow singers were playing, there was face painting with lots of arts and crafts as well as gardening and .....finally.... the easter egg hunt.   DiDi really got into it this year and found a rainbow of eggs. I only picked pink eggs.

Uncle T and Auntie J's visit over Daddy's Birthday

It was great to see Uncle T and Auntie J for Daddy's Birthday!  They drove up from Portland!

An iPad tutorial for MahMah and YehYeh

Here we are, teaching MahMah and YehYeh how to use their new iPad!  I think everyone loves ipad.