Charlotte's Dinner

We started a new routine here. Each week, Charlotte will pick a dinner menu, including dessert, and make it from start to finish. She even needs to come up with the shopping list of ingredients. This week she chose for her menu:

Meatballs in a creamed tomato sauce

Boiled Potatoes

Sauteed Onions and Green Beans

and

Homemade Peach Cobbler

She made her dessert first. She used the recipe from "The Art of Cooking" DVD we recently watched.I watched and was available if she needed me, but she mastered the cobbler on her own.We keep some milk in a quart jar in case the kids need to pour a measurement of milk. It is too difficult for them to handle a full gallon.

Next were the meatballs. She got all her ingredients in the bowl and asked me which "spoon" she should use to mix it up. My response?..."Are you new here? Get those hands in that bowl and mix it up good!" She was afraid of that!!!NOT her favorite part, but she got use to it and made the most perfect looking meatballs I had ever seen!She had her potatoes peeled, cut up, and boiling on the stove while the meatballs simmered in the sauce she created. She got the french styled green beans and onions in the skillet with sweet butter.If you have never had these, they are so easy and SOOOO good!Charlotte's Peach Cobbler came out of the oven looking and smelling fabulous!Her dinner was one of the best I have ever eaten! We added some Lipton Onion Soup mix to the meat mixture this time and, boy, was it good! She did a beautiful job of creating a wonderful dinner for the whole family. She was very proud of herself, and the joy on her face was worth millions!PLUS she cleaned up the entire mess!!! I am going to LOVE Charlotte's dinner nights!