Saturday, February 1, 2020

CHOPPED...the Naustdal edition!

It is always so much fun when we can get these three girls together! They have been besties since kindergarten and I love watching their friendship grow! Little did they know, they were coming over to be part of a competition!
 We decided to do a version of the show Chopped. We challenged the girls to make an appetizer, a main dish, and a dessert. They were up for the challenge!
For the appetizer, they had to use mushrooms, black beans, and oranges....
                     Here are their appetizer creations! It was so fun to see the different ideas come alive!                   
                                    
 The main dish had to include chicken, avocado, peppers, tator tots, and soy sauce...they wrote down what they were going to make and then went to work cooking!
 Karsen made a chicken sandwich with pepper and guacamole, Addisyn made a teriyaki and soy sauce chicken breast with cheesy tator tots and guacamole. Claire made a seasoned chicken breast with cinnamon flavored chopped peppers (surprisingly, very delicious) and guacamole (which included cinnamon- thought it was going to be really gross but it actually tasted pretty good). 
 Their final challenge was making a dessert which included strawberries, nerd candy, and jalapeno.
Again, they amazed us with their creativity! So much fun!

Feeding the ducks with friends

Now that Claire is a pro at feeding the ducks, she wanted to get her friends to be comfortable feeding them too! It was another beautiful day so we went to the pond to feed the ducks. Addisyn was very timid and took some coaxing but finally she gave into her fear and fed them with Claire's help and encouragement!


 Mom, why do you ALWAYS have to take so many pictures? Besides, we are looking right into the sun. Geez....!