Thank you, LucyJo!
When we’re “playing” in the kitchen or out in the garden we’ve had some interesting conversations about the fact that my mother didn’t do these kinds of things, let alone do them with me. When she felt she “had to” my mother could make great chocolate chip cookies, or chocolate cake. I do it because I like to and want to do it.
My grandmother would bake, but by the time I was deemed “old enough” to get involved in the stuff in the kitchen, my grandparents had moved 1500 miles away. And by the time I was even interested, my grandmother no longer really was and summers in southwestern Florida was really not conducive to baking. So, my daughter and I have pretty much learned how to make pie crust together.
I’m originally a city girl, who now lives in the country and so all this info here on this thread, and ones like it, is really fascinating to me. I’m pretty much a strictly edible gardener, IOW I don’t do flowers, unless they are the blossoms on my veggies and herbs!
How sad that your grandmother and mom and you missed out on the good times that you and your daughter are sharing now. It’s great that you are making up for that with your daughter, and the fact that you are learning some of these things together is extra special. You can’t buy good memories like that.
I enjoyed it with my daughter too. She was standing in the chair at the cabinet beside me stirring cornbread, pancakes, and brownies by the time she was three years old. She loves to cook today, and she is a very good cook.
You may have been a city girl, but you must be a country girl at heart! : )
Many vegetables do have pretty flowers. I’m thinking of squash blossoms in particular, and they’re good to eat too.