cooking | Lessons from my daughter

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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A couple of weeks ago, I sat down and wrote my first ever bucket list.

You can find my post here: Autumn Bucket list

The last 2 items on my list are:

39. Document my bucket list with pictures

40. Blog about my progress weekly

This is my second update… what could we have possibly done over the last week?

#1 – Get Emily ready for Halloween.

I am not showing you yet 🙂 but it involves a wig, bow and arrows and an awesome dress!

#4 – Go apple picking.

Around here, it looks like everybody go apple picking at the same place which makes for a very busy outing with too many people… So, we went the other way and found a nice quiet orchard…

La Fleur du pommier

What’s with the hat you ask? Emily wanted to wear it last week when we went pumpkin picking and we convinced her not to. This week, we just couldn’t convince her not to so she wore it…

We picked and bought many apples. Once home, I made a nice apple and blueberry crumble.

#15 – Catch a Wildcats game

Now that Jonathan works during the day (Yeah for no more overnight shifts), we will probably do this more often. We used to be season tickets owners… I suspect we might be again in the future.

#18 – Make puzzles with Jon and Emily.

We started a 1,000 pieces puzzle… not done yet but I suspect that Emily will come and save the day towards the end of it!

#20 – Help with the United Way campaign at work.

I work with amazing colleagues and every chance we have, we help with fundraisers. We can bake as a group to bring goodies to a bake sale or put a “gift basket” into our United Way silent auction. For the 3rd year, we’ve also issued a challenge to other teams at work increasing the amount of gift baskets or items entered in the auction and increasing the money that is raised.

We haven’t revealed our “contribution” to the auction yet… Once we do, I will show you!

We attempted #17 – Go on a fall foliage drive… The colors were not there yet so we will give it another try tomorrow!