It's Cooking Time

Gramma and Bunka, aka - Pat and Marion, have been busily teaching the kids different recipes to cook and techniques to use! I may soon be able to move out of the kitchen once we're back in NZ and let the kids do the cooking. Theo has learned how to make Cannelloni which is stuffed pasta. They were incredibly yummy and a lot of hard work went into them! Theo also made tammatilo sauce which is super yum with corn chips.


Madeline learned how to make a Canadian favourite...poutine! It is french fries, cheese curds and gravy. She made the gravy from scratch and it was beyond yummy!



Cohen has been wanting to make dumplings. When Lesley was here we were planning a big roast dinner with yorkshire "dumplings" (aka...puddings) You can see a video of some of he process by clicking here. 
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152271559052035&l=9106762673356298766


Todays creation was cheeseburger wontons for an appetiser for a dinner we are going to tonight! Again - yum! 
  Keep up the cooking lessons! Well done Fale kiddies! xx

Our budding Scientist

Cohen decided he wanted to make slime. He researched a lot of different videos on the ipad and came up with a favourite. He likes EvanTube - a young boy who makes lots of videos, so he thought it was his turn.

I hope you enjoy his video and his creation of a polymer!

Science with Cohen from The Fales on Vimeo.

Theo's Cannelloni

Today me and my Grandma made cannelloni and salad.
First we got the raw meat and started to cook it in a big pan.
Grandma looked after the meat while started on the bechamel sauce.
The sauce looked like pancake batter and then it started to thicken. Then we added cheese and it tasted nice and smooth.We saw that the meat was almost done and started to make the salad. In the salad we had white onion (left over from Theo's swag tomatillo salsa) lettuce, sweet peppers (yellow and red)  and mushrooms. After that we started to stuff the cannelloni shells.We put the cannelloni in the oven and waited... Then it was dinner!

Washing up! 

Chef Theo and Chef Gramma 

Table full of yummy food

Stuffing the shells

Theos SWAG Tomatillo Salsa!

.1 1/2 lb of Tamatillos 
.1/2 a of chopped white onion 
.1/2 a cup of cilantro leaves 
.1 Tbsp fresh lime juice 
.1/4 teaspoon of sugar
.2 jalapeno peppers or 2 Serrano peppers 
(jalapeno work best with the seeds out)
. salt and pepper to your taste
.a slice of sweet red or yellow pepper for colour


                                                                What to do
Peel the husk of of the tamatillo then boil for 5 minutes.Slice your white onion and jalapeno or serrano.
Then start picking off half a cup of cilantro.
Put the 1TBSP of lime juice and 1/4 teaspoon of sugar in a blender and put the white onions in the blender with the jalapeno peppers (or serrano) and mix.Take your mix out of the blender and put in bowl. 
Take your tamatillos and slice all in half and mix in blender. Dice the slice of sweet red (or yellow) pepper and put in bowl with the rest of the ingredients.
Finally take mixed tamatillos out of the blender and put it in the bowl with the other mixed vegetables and mix with spoon.

Add salt and pepper to taste. 

By Theo

<---------MAKER 

Fishing

Yesterday I went fishing and only the boys came. I only got nibbles.    

Cohen

Meanwhile in the B.C.

So the teachers are still on strike here. What it means for The Fales is...disappointed kids. Who would have thought?

 School is more than a place where you hope learning happens...it's the social mecca for children. We, as parents, can hope for and teach all the social graces we want, but school is their playing field. They won't be properly socialised at home being schooled by their parents. 

This is not a blog on homeschooling vs the classroom. Homeschooling your children is as much a viable choice as sending your kids to school. We're not typically homeschooling. We're doing school work in our home. BIG DIFFERENCE! 


 Our mornings our now routined. Wake up...moan....have your breakfast and then get out your table and chair and do some work...moan...then morning tea...YAY! Back to work...moan! Then an outing of sorts and some physical activity! The afternoons are typically their own. It's hard on them though...their friends are all in the same boat, but they're mostly off in daycare or being looked after by grandparents so there aren't a lot of friends about. It's not bad at all. Just different. Comox is beautiful. We go out to beaches, walks, up a mountain, play sports, pick wild blackberries or plums off the tree in the backyard. There has been science experiments, cooking lessons and fishing trips. It's a whole family approach - Bunka and Gramma lending their expertise when needed. 

What this all adds up to for me as a parent? I will never accept the excuse that they "just don't want to go to school today." 

What we're looking forward too? Autumn colours, pumpkin picking, Canadian Thanksgiving, carving a jack-o-lantern, Hallowe'en, and visits from Uncle Kieran. Life is good. Enjoy the slideshow of the normal stuff we do everyday when we're not "on holiday!" The last slide is Bunka learning how to take a selfie! 


xx Hanging out in Comox on PhotoPeach

The Roads we Travelled

The Great Canadian Landscape on PhotoPeach