Today for most of the day we spent our time cooking. The 2nd maid didnt turn up and we started out cutting the veggies for the lunch. The girls started out with the salad cutting & Chellu soon came up with the idea of a fruit salad. She selected the fruits , got the pomegrante seeds out, cut green apple & grapes while Kunju peeled & cut the cucumber & along with her akka deseeded the cherries. Chellu experimented with the apple cutter & much to her amusement saw the cutter getting broken!
Next Chellu helped a little with cutting the greens but soon gave up since it was proving to be too hard.
In the afternoon I got out all the huge lemons from Hemant's farm and along with Ayush the girls juiced out @ 10-15 of them. The best part was they went @ our building & others asking for juicers. The girls cut the lemons & then the fun started- the 3 of them had a gala time juicing the lemons. They tried all the juicers they had borrowed..tried with diffn pressures, techniques , fought a bit about which one to use, tried along & together ...all sorts of stuff was seen!
After that Ayush left & the girls helped a little with churning butter out of cream. They did quite a bit initially but soon got cranky & bored since it takes an awfully long time. I realized that this activity is great when they are called in during the very last stage when the butter is about to get separated ( had done this last time & it was a gr8 hit. But this time it kinda back-fired !!! ) Lessons learned and lots of fun had!
Fruit Salad with a sprinkling of chaat masala.
Next Chellu helped a little with cutting the greens but soon gave up since it was proving to be too hard.
In the afternoon I got out all the huge lemons from Hemant's farm and along with Ayush the girls juiced out @ 10-15 of them. The best part was they went @ our building & others asking for juicers. The girls cut the lemons & then the fun started- the 3 of them had a gala time juicing the lemons. They tried all the juicers they had borrowed..tried with diffn pressures, techniques , fought a bit about which one to use, tried along & together ...all sorts of stuff was seen!
After that Ayush left & the girls helped a little with churning butter out of cream. They did quite a bit initially but soon got cranky & bored since it takes an awfully long time. I realized that this activity is great when they are called in during the very last stage when the butter is about to get separated ( had done this last time & it was a gr8 hit. But this time it kinda back-fired !!! ) Lessons learned and lots of fun had!
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