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| I was just minding my own business today, puttering in the kitchen. I'd finished canning a batch of tomatoes and was starting on kale when someone came in the kitchen and surprised me! After hugs and kisses, Madison decided it would be fun to help prepare the kale for canning.
See, Grandma, you just rip it up into bite sized pieces, like this:
Then you take all the leaves and you swish them around in the water really well:
As an added bonus, your kitchen floor is really wet now, you'd better mop that up. Oh, and you and Mommy are both wet. Hmmm. So am I. Wasn't that fun? OK, Grandma's turn to do the part with the hot water while I tear up.....um.....look at the Sunday paper. You'd better put my shirt in the dryer for a while too. Hey, Mom, let's see what there is in Grandma's basement to take home. Peaches and applesauce? Yum. Salsa for you and Daddy, some homemade tomato sauce? That sounds good. Here, let me help you with that jar of tomato basil sauce, I like that on spaghetti:
OK, it's time for me to take a nap, I worked hard with Grandma. Time for a nap for Grandma too! I'm tired, my kitchen floor is mopped. Madison and I finished up 12 pints of kale and baked a pan of brownies. You can't start them in the kitchen too early, you know! Annie |
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| Best tutorial ever! What a cutie pie! :) |
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| Oh, Annie, I've never had kids. Boy did I miss something! Love the picture and give that little helper a big hug! You, Annie, are a great, wonderful grandmother! |
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| Awwwwww....she is so sweet and obviously a great help in the kitchen as well! Linda |
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- Posted by vicki_lv_nv (My Page) on Sun, Sep 16, 12 at 20:46
| She is adorable. And obviously a huge help in the kitchen. :) |
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| She is such a little treasure. I'm so glad you posted these pictures. |
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| See, Eileen, now you know all you need to know about canning kale. (grin) Maybe we should make a youtube video... Beachlily, grandkids are so much more fun than kids. All the fun and none of the responsibility, it's all good. A sink full of water and kale leaves in Grandma's kitchen is a good time, waiting to happen. In Mom's kitchen, well, it would be a mess you wouldn't be allowed to make, LOL. We always get and give LOTS of hugs and kisses too, makes cooking so much better. Linda, how about yours, I haven't seen pictures of her in the kitchen yet and I'll bet she's nearly as much help as Madison is. Maybe more. :-) Vicki, I can't tell you how much help she is. Ahem. Dedtired, she IS a treasure, as are all of them. I figure I'll give them all a chance to love to spend time with me in the kitchen, and let them see cooking as fun and not just another chore. Plus, maybe she'll like kale! Annie |
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| Wahhhhhh....I waaaaaaant one....... |
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| Katie: Meee tooo! But not yet! Eileen |
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| Katie: Meee tooo! But not yet! Eileen |
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| She's all that and a bucket of chicken....with fries!!! Such a Dolly Baby!! I think I could just "squeeze the stuffin' out of her".... |
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- Posted by cooksnsews (My Page) on Sun, Sep 16, 12 at 22:51
| My dad always said that if he had known how much fun grandkids would be, he'd have had them first! |
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- Posted by coconut-nj (My Page) on Sun, Sep 16, 12 at 23:14
| Great pics Annie. Just love how much she's into it. Literally and figuratively. LOL. You know how to start em right girlfriend! |
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| Those of you that want one, I'd be glad to lend you Bud, LOL. he loves to help in the kitchen, but he'll eat you out of house and home! Cooksnsews, I agree with your Dad. LindaC, that baby gets squeezed regularly, and she squeezes back. For about 5 seconds, then she's gotta go. She's crawling faster than I can catch her, pulling herself up to all the furniture and using Cooper as a walker. She's already taken a few steps on her own, she'll be running in no time. She'll be a year old on December 6. Sigh. They grow too fast..... Annie |
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- Posted by nancylouise (My Page) on Mon, Sep 17, 12 at 6:50
| Great little helper Annie! Just want to squeeze those cheeks. She looks so happy to be helping Gramm in the kitchen. You are blessed! NancyLouise |
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| so adorable ! |
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| Grandchildren are so much fun you really should have them first! She is adorable! |
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| Annie, that baby is precious!! Thanks for the smile. Tracey |
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| nancy, that baby is the happiest thing I've ever seen, nearly all the time. Tracey, you are so welcome, she always makes me smile too. Although she looks like her Dad, she has the personality of her mother. I always told people that no matter how tough life got I couldn't stay down, because Ashley always managed to make me smile. I also wanted to beat her sometimes, LOL, but she was entertaining! Thanks, mitch and eandhl, we love her. She's the chubbiest baby we've ever had in the family, I think, but she'll be walking soon and I'm betting that baby fat is going to go quickly. She'll always have the cheeks, though, it's a family trait. Annie |
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| Love, love, love that kind of kitchen help. Ain't nothing better than our grands!! I'm off to pick them up from school and we be makin' brownies. |
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- Posted by cloudy_christine (My Page) on Mon, Sep 17, 12 at 14:32
| She's so big already! And so adorable. Ashley is a radiant mother. I think maybe Madison is going to look just like Ashley (and you). I have to remember that sink full of kale. It looks like the ideal toy. |
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| Annie she is so cute. I'm sure she had so much fun with her hands in the water. Kids just love that don't they? Karen |
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| cc, a sink full of kale is the perfect toy, and she ate quite a lot of it. I keep trying to convince myself that she'll keep liking it when she gets old, I love the stuff. The other grandkids, well, not so much. Ashley likes it too, so maybe Maddie will keep on eating it. Maybe... Karen, I think Ashley and I had as much fun as she did! Annie |
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- Posted by islay_corbel (My Page) on Tue, Sep 18, 12 at 2:32
| She's really lovely! Well, both of them! |
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| AWW, too cute. thanks for sharing, your post made me smile :) |
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| I never had a bunch of kale in the house. Alice seems to love it. Go figure. I know it's healthy stuff. |
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| I really like it, so do both Ashley and Amanda. Madison ate quite a lot of it while she was "helping", so maybe she'll keep liking it. Or like most other children, by the time she's two she'll be turning up her nose at it like Bud and The Princess do. Annie |
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| : ) lyra |
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| Thanks, Annie, for the smile today. Not to sound redundant, but she is so adorable! Sally |
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| So precious!!! Thank you for sharing with all of us and giving us smiles today. |
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| oooops, it wasn't a cooking CF grandbaby! I had looked at this picture again this morning then went the store and saw a Maddie look alike sitting in a grocery cart and I couldn't keep my hands off. The mother returned to the cart screaming at me as if I was a kidnapper; I was just cooing with her but I forgot my manners and times. So I left the store without KALE. |
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| Aw, Cathy, you can get kale any time, but babies need to be cooed at and talked to. (sigh) It's horrible that times are such that parents need to be panicked when someone talks to their child. Annie |
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- Posted by jessicavanderhoff (My Page) on Sat, Sep 22, 12 at 22:31
| I guess it's a crazy world out there, and I don't actually have kids, but I think if I saw a mother or grandmother aged lady cooing at my baby, I wouldn't freak out. Maybe she is a very anxious person and felt guilty having left her for a minute to go get the peas. |
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- Posted by arabellamiller (My Page) on Mon, Sep 24, 12 at 9:51
| Oh goodness! Cathy, you are welcome to coo at my babies anytime. Of course my youngest baby is now 7, so she might look at you a little funny, but you go right ahead! Annie, she is adorable. And quite the helper. Great pictures. AM |
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| Oooohhh...what a sweetie, and Ashley too! Can I borrow Madison, I think my floor needs mopping! I am waiting not so patiently for my DD to provide me with a little one to train. Deanna |
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