Food | Lessons from my daughter

I am extremely happy that Emily is fairly high functioning but…

Yes, there is a but!

But, sometimes I feel people forget that she needs help and support.

I love chatting with her about her day, what she did and how she feels. Sometimes I get the typical 1 word answer. Other times we actually chat quite a bit.

Tonight she pulled one piece of paper out of her pocket with the word “Vietnamese” on it and told me that she needed to research and make a Vietnamese salad dressing for the salad bar at school tomorrow.

There is no notes in her agenda, no emails, nothing really to confirm what she said so we will go with it.

Emily and I researched the dressing, settled on this recipe and made a list of ingredients we needed to buy.

After dinner, Jonathan and Emily tackled the recipe and decided to double it.

I was sitting no far, just listening to the 2 of them and inserting myself in the conversation here and there.

Look at them!

Daddy made sure the measurements were good and he chopped the garlic and the hot peppers while Emily made sure that the dressing didn’t boil!

Emily had a small taste of hot chili peppers . She’s not going to do that again!

It was so much fun to see them share this moment, I loved it!

I love them!

My perfect family!

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My mom used this expression constantly as I was growing up.

She meant that I always had to add a little something; “a grain of salt.”

Sunday night, I was reminded of my mom’s expression!

I made lasagna for the first time ever which is ridiculous as I studied hotel management and aced some pretty awesome cooking courses. I am a fairly good cook and hubby is a trained chef but I had never made lasagna from scratch.

So Sunday evening, I tackled this project, made my meat and veggie sauce, grated two different types of cheese, sauteed spinach and incorporated it to ricotta cheese, layered it all, cooked it and served myself a big portion.

Jon was out and Emily had dinner earlier.

Me and my lasagna sat on the couch at around 8:30pm.

It didn’t take long for my girl to come around and ask if she could taste.

She took 2 bites than gave me my bowl back.

When I asked her if everything was ok, she said: “well mom. it’s a little blend! Mrs. D. in culinary tech says that a little salt could help with that.”

What the

Did my girl just delivered a clever zinger?

Webster defines zinger as a quick and clever comment that criticizes or insults someone.

Yes, my girl just delivered a clever zinger and I don’t care that it was at my expense.

I am just proud she’s achieved another milestone!

And for the record, my lasagna was delicious. The layer of ricotta and spinach is the part Emily called blend, next time I will add a little salt and pepper to ricotta but believe me when I say that if you have a little bit of everything on your fork, it taste like heaven!

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