My baking helpers are here!

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trailrunner on 7 Jun 2025 at 10:56
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She’s 7 he’s 5! They love to bake and eat! Great kids . Made their individual pizzas at 8 pm  after a 9 hr car trip yesterday! Real troopers. He’s a natural baguette maker! 


 









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pmccool on 7 Jun 2025 at 14:50

 Now we know the customers for grandma's pizza.

Mine like grandpa's bread but with one all grown up and living in Hawaii and the other two already in high school in Colorado, I rarely get to make any for them.  Glad you have yours nearby.

Paul

Our teen grandson lives a mile away. He’s a musician so he and his grandpa do lessons together quite often every week. He loves helping in the kitchen as well. Our son and his mom are both Chefs so the apple didn’t fall far! 

Move closer to them! That’s why we moved here to VA from Alabama but our daughter didn’t have these to babes ! So we do “ prisoner” exchange and steel them away at every opportunity. 

Thank you for looking! c

The two who are still at home will be away for college or other pursuits in two years and four years, respectively.  Combine that with their ever-increasing involvement in their own circles of friends and their own activities.  All told, it makes a move from Michigan to Colorado less appealing with every passing day.  

The other factor is that our most recent move took us further away from them.  When i retired in 2020, we moved back to my wife's hometown.  It's also close to where I grew up (I'm the fourth generation owner of the family farm).  After having lived in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Alabama, Kansas, Texas, Kansas, South Africa, and Kansas again because of my career, it was time to let her pick where she wanted to be.  As much as she loves her kids and grandkids, this is home.

Paul

Paul, hope you don't mind my asking...from the sound of that, you live near your farm, but not on it. I assume it is rented and being worked? Of course, you've moved all over so somebody was looking after it.

They grow certified seed potatoes, so they employ a rotation system whereby the potatoes are only grown on the same plot every fourth year.  That prevents pathogens from building up in the soil.  Selling diseased seed would kill their business as well as their crop.  For other years in the rotation, they grow wheat, rye, legumes, oats, and other crops that improve the soil as well as providing cash crops.  They even experimented last year by planting one field with giant white radishes (daikon?) that were plowed under as green manure.  Apparently those also provide soil benefits.  It's gratifying to see them care for the land so well.

Paul

I think the wheat is a soft variety and I don't have a way to hull the oats, so I haven't pursued the matter.  While I'm sure they'd be more than willing to let me have some, my interest hasn't been high enough to motivate me to ask.

Paul

Times change. These are our only grands. 13,7,5. In 10 years at 84 we likely won’t be hosting them for weeks but who knows . Taking advantage as much as possible now. ❤️🙏

Aw, they're making memories they will have forever. 

They told our daughter “ we like to go to Dammie and Tappy’s because they’re fun!”. Haha. I don’t know how fun I am but they sure do know how to do a ton of things most littles don’t. They mill flour and roll pasta and scramble eggs, turn pancakes. We live having them. Usually a month but this year only 2 weeks because of swim team at home. 

Thanks for looking!C

How wonderful to have your grandkids there and baking with them!  So lucky for them to have you enrich their lives and vice versa.

Benny

So great that you involve them in all that dough handling and cooking. Beautiful assortment of breads here, Caroline.