My Children and Food

Aren't they darling? BTG looks distraught, CTM just plain ugly and K2 is the pensive one.

There's been a good deal of pressure on me this past year to make lemon meringue pie and Cornish pasties. The pasties idea followed on our trip to England last year where we sampled as many as we could--just to get an objective taste of course.

So, I made the pie last weekend. I confess that although I prefer a homemade lemon filling and even had lemons with which to make it, I still pulled out the box from the cupboard and used that. But I did double the meringue. Two egg whites just didn't look impressive enough and seriously, if you're going to make and eat a lemon meringue pie, it might as well look impressive.

The Cornish pasties are K2's creation. He was bored and hungry. A good recipe for learning to cook! I hung out in the kitchen with him and helped where needed but he did it all. He's been happy with his lunches this week.

CTM seemed to me more like an artist than a hungry boy preparing his breakfast. The colours in this bowl struck me with such force that I just had to take some photos. Poor guy just wanted to eat! It seemed to me that he had arranged the fruit since it almost had the shape of a wagon wheel or flower, but no he had not. He did admit that sometimes he does.
Isn't that something that so many of us adults forget? Joy in the moment, delight with simple things: these bring abundance to our lives.