A Royal Day of Cooking

Those chicken pot pies Mrs. Helen made us after Katelyn Grace was born were delicious! We simply had to figure out exactly how she made them!

Monday morning, all of us girls (Mom and Katelyn Grace included!) headed over to the Royal's home for a day of cooking with Mrs. Helen. We had an ambitious list of things to accomplish:

Chicken pot pie
Pork roast
Pizza
Stir fry
...and a few other things that I don't remember.

You see, we figured that if we could all get together and get a few days' worth of cooking done for both of our families, things would be simpler: we would only have to mess things up once, we would only have to clean up once, and of course we would have lots of fun and some wonderful fellowship!

First, we warmed up a lunch for ourselves and Christian made us delicious strawberry milkshakes.


Then we got down to business. We chopped vegetables for the chicken pot pies and pizzas, got the pork roasts in the oven, and Christian and Shannon made and rolled out the pizza dough.


Christian thought it was great fun to stick the banana sticker on his forehead. : )



So many distractions! Of course, someone had to hold Katelyn Grace while everyone else was busy cooking!


We got almost everything on our list accomplished by around 3:45pm. The food was made, we got most of our chatting done, and of course we had way too much fun!




We had hot homemade pizza that evening, and wow! those chicken pot pies came in handy over the next few days. Now the pork roast is gone, too, and I think it's time for another Royal Cooking Day!

Thank you, Mrs. Helen, for the wonderful time, the glorious food, and the handy cooking tips!