Teaching Holly Basic Gardening and Cooking



The mini Beast from the East has struck the UK this weekend and despite it being spring we have more snowfall and negative temperatures. So being house bound I have used the time to teach Holly some basic gardening and cooking.

 

For the gardening we bought Holly a grow your own cucumber set as everyone knows just how much she loves her cucumber. She really enjoyed setting up her propagator and sewing the seeds, although she was very disappointed to wake up this morning and find no cucumbers yet. Fingers crossed if she keeps watering them then we will have a fine crop for the summer.

 

For the cooking I spent this morning teaching Holly how to make my speciality homemade carrot cake. I basically measured out all the ingredients for her and then let her mix it all together and pop it in the oven. I have to say its a pretty tasty bit of cake of I do say so myself.

 

 

Holly with her grown your own cucumber kit.

Emptying the soil in to the base.

Compacting the soil down.

Nice muddy hands.

Tiny little seeds for tiny little hands.

Holly sewing cucumber seeds.

And the final job is to water the seeds.

Ta-dah, the finished article. Fingers crossed for a good crop.

Ingredients all laid out and Holly ready for a cooking lesson.

In go the ingredients.

A bit of elbow grease to get mixing.

In goes the fruit, looking good.

And finally on goes the oven gloves and in to the oven it goes.