Cooking

We have been having a hard time lately convincing the kiddos that eating vegetables is good for you and that they don't actually taste like vomit. So, I got a kids cookbook from the library and let Miss E pick which dinner we were going to have and then had her help me make it. She seemed thrilled to have picked the recipe and to be doing most of the cooking and in the end, actually ate some of the meal. Here she is putting basil in the food processor to make a pesto. 

I continue to have a hard time with lighting and composition for pictures in the house. In this one, the sun light is streaming in from a window on her left but her face was also shaded by some up-above cupboards. A full flash would have been too much but no flash seemed like too little. I do like how the light shines up the side of her beautiful face and greens up the basil though. It gives it a warm summer-afternoon effect.