Serving Others #4 ~ Plan, prepare, and serve a nutritious meal.
The children and I had been planning for this for quite sometime. We were discussing about this meal for almost a month. All of us intend to do something different for Daddy on Father’s Day.
We talked about healthy foods and plan a nutritious meal. I thought that it is important of family meals as well in regard to strengthening the family.
We came to conclusion that we would prepare something simple but is still consider nutritious.
A few days before our date I sat down with the children together and planned the menu finally after discussed for weeks.
The final menu is mushroom soup with garlic bread, spaghetti carbonara as the main coarse, and ice cream as a dessert.
We have to drop off the ice cream ideas because we were unable to buy the ice cream as we had to keep the secret without Daddy knowing it.
As for the little invitation card Issac filled it up and put inside the envelop and gave it to Daddy for the dinner date!
It was a surprise face when Daddy opened the envelope and saw his priceless reaction!
The children came back from Church and getting put into works for the meal.
Annabelle was cutting the simple ingredients for the spaghetti such as ham, bacon, sausages, and help to shred the cheese.
Issac was cooking the mushroom soup while Annabelle was busy preparing and cutting.
I just gave them instructions and both of them were able to do the rest.
After Annabelle finished cutting the ingredients needed for Issac to cook for spaghetti, she started to cut the French loaf.
I taught her to prepare the garlic bread spread using the softened butter, garlic that she chopped, and a little bit of salt.
Finally I helped her to put into the preheated oven about 10 minutes until the butter mixture melts and bubbles and can see a little bit shades of golden brown.
Issac was cooking the chopped bacon until slightly crisp and set aside. He added some oil for the minced garlic, add in the Dolminio carbonara sauce, and the mushroom, cooked for 1 minute. After which, he added the cooked and drained spaghetti into the sauce and stirred it for awhile before turn off the heat.
The timing just right and nice when every dish was ready.
We had a lesson table manners in April. And now is the time they practice it out. Both of them setting up the table mats together with the forks and spoons.
They were enjoying doing the final touch on the meals they prepared by putting the chopped parsleys on top the mushroom soup, spaghetti carbonara and the crispy pan-fried bacon on top the spaghetti too!
Before we had our dinner, I asked both kids to present to their beloved Daddy the letters that they wrote for him.
Daddy looked surprise and touched during opened the letter and read them.
Overall Daddy very satisfied with the meal, even the mushroom soup a little bit over cooked.
Issac and me did not notice when he was pan frying the mushroom, turned out to be a little too long and the soup have a little bit of burnt smell.
We had a blast! The kids loved being in charge and making all of the choices. Alvin and I loved seeing them work together.
I can see both Issac and Annabelle were really proud of themselves by preparing, cooking and serving the dinner to the family!
Good job and Well done! All in all – a GREAT family date night!
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