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DD2 started in the kitchen doing prep work and now has graduated to whole meals. Prep work with a knife at the age of 6! Yes, she had to be careful and the knife had to be sharp too so she wouldn't slip and get cut.

DD2 recently chopped potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes (they cook faster), boiled them, put in the oil and parsley, and pepper and served them for gramma along with the salmon/scallops we slow braised in a pan and the microwave peas. It was a marvelous meal.

DD1 is more of a baker. She did a complete buche de noel from scratch, the separation of all the eggs, the slow stirring of the custard filling, the five step frosting, and the meringue mushrooms for decoration.

DD2s first big meal was chicken marsala at the age of 16 and I wasn't in the kitchen with her.

They each got a new Martha Stewart cookbook for Christmas along with a cast iron glazed stewpot and a set of pyrex glass mixing bowls with lids.