Friendly Food, Happy Cooking

...Typing fast here...no time...but, I'm cooking and just had to get this down while it's fresh.

Lil made friends with the rutabaga I'm cutting up for dinner. She told it to watch out for the potato queen. The sweet potato also was warned. The potato queen doesn't like it when people shout across the room. "She will shoot them with her gun," they were each told. But, the potato queen won't hurt them it's a pretend gun. (And yes, I'm doing the vegetable voices.)

Veggie Tales, eat your heart out.

The sweet potato is being shown the family room right now... Lil is telling it about a movie called, "The Princess and the Feast." Lil is acting out the movie now and the sweet potato's role is the little, friend-mouse.

I couldn't make this up if I tried.

Sometimes I worry that she won't ever join the real world. But then I think - good for her. It's really not fun here.

I'm going to go cook our friends now (don't worry, they are excited to go into the warm oven and be eaten - that's what they were made for - I'm their voices don't forget, so that helps me - because I'm not about to change the menu, so my contribution is to make them willing participants... so yes, the conversation went, "Rutabaga you're being peeled. Rutabaga you're being cut up into pieces. Rutabaga, you're going to be cooked..." to which the root vegetable replied "I love being peeled. It's great being cut up...look how many pieces I'm in. I feel a bit scattered...ha ha ha.. I can't wait to go into the oven, it looks so warm").

:) Thank heavens for little girls. Thank heavens for a little one named Lillian.

p.s. She went deep into the story of "Princess and the Feast" -narrating and playing while I was typing. As I'm really about to head back to the kitchen she is currently humming and dancing, waltzing around, with her life-size gingerbread paper-man she made at pre-school.

Good moments. Soaking it in. Loving it :)