Can Anatole be beat?

The kids decided to be "chef" for a day. If a 14 year old and a 12 year old cooks what do you get?

This is what we got yesterday:

1. Soup de la Veggie (Courtesy of 12 year old son)
2. Sugared Apples with Fruit (Courtesy of 14 year old half-pint)

Both my wife and I had to say the food, while watery, tasted pretty good. He even "nuked" some Pita Bread to go with the soup.

Here is his secret recepie. Try it and you will swear you are at Aunt Dhalia's country Manor (P.G.Wodehouse) and on top of it, the food is healty too! (Please note, this is his reciepie as he made it. I am sure there are variations to this, since I could distinctly taste cinnamon in the end result)!

Soup:

1. Boil 6-8 cups of water.
2. In aIn a blender (or mixie as the Indians say) drop in
1. A clove of garlic
2. Pearl Onions (You can substitue a piece of regular onion
3. Beef-steak tomato (or 2 small Plum tomatoes)
4. baby carrots (You do not even need to skin the carrots!)
5. A stick of celery
6. Table Spoon of Butter (My son's motto is More Butter the Better, but you can do without this).
7. green chilies (or more to taste)
8. Small piece of cilantro
9. Ginger to taste
10. Salt
11. 1/2 an apple for sweetness (My cousin's house an apple tree and we have more than 100 apples from the tree. So we are hot on apples at this time of the year)
3. Add the boiling water until the blender is 75% full.
4. Close the blender and Grind for 4-5 minutes until smooth.
5. Server in a bowl with the "nuked" Pita Bread'.
   

Nuked: Defined as anything that has been heated in a microwave oven.


Sugared Apple:

1. Take a small apple and core the apple. You will be left with a "whole apple" with a hole in the middle where the seeds were.
2. In a cup, mix brown sugar, honey, raisins, and dried cranberries.
3. Stuff the core with this mixture.
4. Apply a little bit of ghee (Clarified butter) to the top and bottom of the cored area -- acts as an adhesive.
   
5. Cover the top and bottom with "Chappathi flour" (Breading mix).
6. Place the apple in a microwave safe bowl and "nuke" it for 2 minutes. The moisture in the apple is sufficient to cook the apple.
7. Place in an ice cream bowl and pour chocolate syrup on top.
   
8. Eat when it is warm!