Once upon a time, Austin and I used to cook together quite often- we enjoyed trying new recipes and having fun together in the kitchen. Making meals together was like a date night for us. Then we had kids and got super busy and that pretty much stopped.
Until Austin's birthday came along and he wanted to try making sesame chicken together. We watched a few youtube videos and blended a couple recipes together to make an amazing meal. The kids were all over in the kitchen getting in the way, there were far too many steps to the process, and too many dishes to clean up (plus we had to make a different dinner for Trevor because of his allergies), but the finished product was well worth all the effort. Admittedly, I mostly just did meal prep like cutting up the chicken and broccoli and helping Austin locate all the ingredients he would need (he's not nearly as familiar with the kitchen as I am ;) and Austin did all of the cooking.
For Austin's birthday dessert, Asher made brownies- almost completely on his own. I just helped him with the oven because he's afraid he'll burn himself. We also threw in some mint Milano cookies (called Monaco cookies here in Canada for some reason) because Austin loves those and the kids were clamoring to have some too. Because Austin spent a lot of the day at church doing bishopric stuff, it wasn't all that exciting of a day, but we had a very enjoyable meal as a family!
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