The past few weeks when Jon gets home from school he’s been enthusiastically watching the baking show Sugar on the Food Network. I think Anna Olson‘s use of food Jon knows about and loves (sugar! maple syrup!! chocolate!!!) is one attraction; also, every time she goes “whoops!” or “mmmm”, Jon thinks that’s hilarious for some reason.
On Friday Sugar featured goodies made with lemons. Jon decided he wanted to make something with lemons, too, so on Saturday we made the show’s lemon squares. Jon helped scoop and add ingredients whenever he could (eggs were a riot), and he was very pleased with himself when the squares were finished. (He also happily glugged down about an eighth of a cup of pure lemon juice while making the dessert. Yecch!)
Unfortunately, along the way the cooling pan somehow managed to go “splat” on the floor, so the dessert ended up a mess. But it still tasted great, and Jon was crowing all evening about cooking “just like Anna Olson”!
Elspeth is a Food Network junkie too, though she’s more of a Top 5/Good Eats girl. What is it about cooking shows that exerts such a hypnotic power over kids?
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We went to Niagara Falls yesterday; on the way back we stopped at Olson Foods and Bakery in St. Catharines (Jon was thrilled). Anna wasn’t there (pity), but we chatted to a staffer for a while. Apparently Food Network puts Sugar in the 9 am and 4 pm slot in the weird belief that 30-something housewives will be watching at that time. (Yeah, right after getting the kids off to school, and almost-arsenic hour. Sure they are.) What they’re getting, instead, is a lot of kids watching after school. Tastier than cartoons, I guess!