What's cooking?

I had a blast with the girls. We decided to make lunch together. Both girls help out quite often in the kitchen and they can already make quite some meals by themselves. They just pick out one of the many cookery books (in Dutch or English - doesn't matter), look for a good recipe and they start to cook. This time, we had minced meat, boiled eggs and mushrooms in the fridge. So we decided to make a dish we call "bird's nests". You wrap minced meat around the (peeled) boiled eggs and you deep fry them. They come with a creamy tomato-mushroom-madera sauce we call "schildpadsaus" and mashed potatoes. The kids did great. Each one had their tasks: the youngest one (she's 13) made the mash. She's pretty good at it and she loves to season and taste. The older sister (15) made the sauce. She's very precise in whatever she does and that also goes for cooking: measuring her ingredients to the gram, resulting in a delicious sauce. I was in charge of the bird's nests: that's what I like to do.

It took us no longer than a good 15 min to finish the dish and sit down at the table to enjoy it. I love these moments with the girls. Great teamwork!