Kitchen Wars : Strawberry Banana Pancakes
Last night I didn’t know what to do for dinner and we didn’t take out any meat before work to have thawed out. Light bulb! Never can go wrong with breakfast food right? “Nariah… what do you think about breakfast food for dinner?”
“OK daddy! Can I help you make it?”
“Now why would you ask a silly question like that? Why would I say no? You are my lil chef!”
“OK, lets see, do you want pancakes or French Toast? I heard about this Cap’n Crunch French Toast, it sounds like it could be good.”
“Ummm, lets do the French Toast next time daddy, I want pancakes”
“OK, pancakes. Hashbrowns? Eggs?”
“Yeah!”
“Bacon?”
“YEAH!”
“Whooops, we’re out of bacon… Sausage instead?”
*sigh* “Oooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaay”
“OK, are we going normal or experimental? Do you feel like something new?”
“Ummmmm, how about strawberry banana pancakes?”
“Lets do it!”
Nariah literally picks out everything from the fridge to make the pancakes. This child picked out an egg, the oil, the tablespoon, the measuring cup and the milk and would not let me help. “Its OK daddy, I know how much goes in it.”
Here I am reading the steps on the box of pancake mix and she’s a step ahead of me, already mixing in the right ingredients. Next we chopped up 6 strawberries and half a banana and blended that. Added some banana flavoring for good measure and she’s mixing it up. Nariah also cast me aside while she used the grater to shred the potatoes and then counted out the sausage links.
Fast forward to eating at the table. Mommy is home now and is oohing and aahing over how good everything is and how she didn’t expect to like the pancakes because she doesn’t really care for banana flavored foods that much. “These are really fluffy and moist!”
“Thanks mommy, we are the bomb cooks”
“No I’m the bomb cook daddy”
“Huh? I thought we were a team? We didn’t do this together?”
*sigh* “We did do some of it together, but all you did was the stuff on the stove, I did all the real cooking!”
“I guess she told you!”
I’ve created a monster! LOL
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