I can cook

For those who are not regular watchers of CBeebies they have a programme called I Can Cook where the presenter has several young helpers in the kitchen and they all make their own dish to eat at the end of each programme. They do seem to manage a fairly impressive range of dishes since they don't let the children use knives or anything hot.

Tonight we had our own version, the dish was chicken with paprika and rice

Alex chopped bacon into small pieces

Then some orange pepper. I sliced it into strips so that he could get the scissors round it.

Esme had a go at chopping yellow pepper and mushrooms. She's pretty good with a knife now.

They went off for a quick wrestle to work up an appetite while I did the hot bits.

There our similarity ended. In the programme all the children sit down and eat the food they have been cooking. I still ended up picking out the peppers and in Alexe's case bacon before they would eat it!

There was progress last week with the concrete, Daniel got about 1/4 of the way through and I certainly seemed to shovel lots into the skip. However he did decide that the demolition hammer was not quite big enough for the job, so this weekend we're  having a replay with a bigger hammer. Fingers crossed the weather will be dry enough to get the job done.