Have I mentioned that Nico loves to cook? Probably. Did I also mention that he loves pasta? In every shape, way and form, with a little sauce, without sauce, raw (don’t ask, I will only say that the sound of an uncooked macaroni is not something you would like to hear more than once…), so why not give him some pasta to “cook”? Now for the instructions for this one… I took a sheet of felt, … Read entire article »

How about a nice ham sandwich? Exactly our thought! Nico has a little toy toaster with two slices of toast that pop out halfway to the ceiling and he loves them. So since he likes to play with them so much, we figured to give him a whole sandwich and not just stop at the bread. For the bread I took the same foam that I had used for his French fries (very dense and thus … Read entire article »

Nico loves popcorn, so what is an easier decision than to make some nice and crunchy (ok, not so much the latter) popped corn for our little one as number three? Valerie had seen a few awesome looking popcorn samples out on the interwebs and we ended up with an irregular drawing that Valerie then folded up like a little potsticker (joining all three tips) and sewed around a small pompom, since we all agree … Read entire article »

Project number two was an all-dressed pizza. For everybody outside of the province of Quebec, all-dressed means crust, sauce, pepperoni, green bell peppers and mushrooms and usually under the cheese, and it is a staple in Quebecois cuisine. Now most children I know are very to extremely picky in what they eat and especially in what they will accept on a pizza, many will have a fit, if they see anything but cheese or maximum … Read entire article »

So the first menu item we tackled, was a burger, since he has seen us eat those every now and then, we like them with cheese, so we added that and anything is better with a vegetable, so we just had to add some bacon to this, too. Since I could not sew myself out of a paper bag, if my life depended on it, we decided that I was going to be mostly on … Read entire article »

Even though this is a montage, this really was going on at the same time, our camera just wasn’t quite able to take one photo in two different directions at once. Ever since he was a little baby, Nico has been fascinated with food and cooking. I mean, how many 2-month-olds do you know that are sitting in front of the TV with their eyes glued to the Food Network? Well, what to many kids is a phase, has been going on for 26 months and counting with Nico, who loves anything that has to do with cooking and baking. We had bought him a few sets of plastic food at the Dollar store that he has been playing with incessantly, also some plastic fruit with some velcro, which he could … Read entire article »