May. 6, 2006 - Redwall Cookbook

Jaedin has been devouring the Redwall series (he's now 2/3rd s of the way through the fourth book ~ last night I had to pry it out of his hands at 11:30 and make him go to bed:)

Last week we were looking up the next book in the series at our library website and we stumbled upon The Redwall Cookbook!  Jaedin was thrilled to pieces at the thought, so we reserved it.

It came in yesterday, and he has been after me since then to let him make something.  He finally found enough ingredients to make shortbread and a nut-brittle type thing (I'm not using the proper Redwall-ish terms, shhh!  Don't tell Jaedin!!)

His shortbread turned out great, and the candy-stuff is cooling.  We didn't have a candy thermometer, so we used the cold water method and I think it will turn out fine.

Anyway, I was just so proud of him for having the initiative and then doing a good job both at following the recipes and cleaning up... Yay!  Another cook in the family:)