Chef in training.....

Elijah still likes to help me cook. Yesterday's dinner was honey-mustard chicken wings! YUM-O!!

After dawning the apron and all (he told me that he did not want to take a picture with my apron b/c it had flowers on the front .... after some convincing I assured him that if I take a picture from the side/back no one will see any flowers) We were ready to begin: 1/2 cup honey, 1/2 mustard and chicken!! That's it!! No need for salt or pepper or fancy parsley and paprika (as some recipes call for)

Mix those two lovely ingredients together:

and dunk the chicken in (we like chicken wings....use whatever piece of the bird you prefer)

Transfer those to a pan......Elijah is so good at this stuff!!

Bake! We baked our chicken at 425 for 50 min (turning chicken once)......we like the gooey sauce it produces over some brown rice!

Now I know if I was as good as The Pioneer Woman I would have step by step pictures and a finished picture, however; I work and .......... well actually I just forgot to take the darn picture! I promise it's really tasty though!!

My SUPERB reader!!!

So school started here last week. Elijah was enrolled in the base's summer reading challenge. Elijah read ALL chapter books....he read 96 books in 9 weeks! WOOHOO! I am so happy he has a joy for reading and he tells me about the things he learns. He loves to laugh out loud while he is reading and then he comes and tells me about the funny parts. It gives me such pleasure to hear him tell me about what he thinks is so funny and what is going on with the characters in the book.

My little man was so excited to see his friends, get a certificate AND have pizza for dinner that he knocked over his Tang. Bummer.....guess who had to clean it up?