La Nathaniel

Nathan has always had big ideas. For instance, he sees the Olympics and starts making plans to move to Vancouver for high school in order to train for the luge. He goes to Carowinds and then plans on building his own theme park. He watches Iron Chef and decides he can cook anything; just give him the ingredients. He also made building plans for his own restaurant in our backyard with you know who being the one of the chefs.

But to not kill his dreams too much (as he accuses me of doing when I try to explain to him that a 9 year old cannot realistically raise 7.5 million dollars to finance a theme park), we compromised and let him open up La Nathaniel in our house to serve dinner to Dave and myself. The only catch was he needed a sous chef. Grammie to the rescue!!

Sous chef Grammie with Nathan

Grating the cheese

Chef Nathan

Plating the crab dip

Icing the cookies

After taming the ambitious menu (again, a dream killer), he decided on crab dip to start; salad as the second course; a dinner of lobster macaroni and cheese (which was really good), green beans, and rotisserie chicken; and dessert of iced peanut butter cookies with a mountain of red sprinkles on top! It was a delicious meal. The sous chef did a lot of work (esp clean-up!), but Nathan also did his share. He cleaned up the living room and the iron table on our porch; made decorations; put the salad together; put the dip and crackers on the plate; grated the cheese; cut up/pulled apart the chicken; and iced the cookies. It was a lot of fun to watch and Dave and I enjoyed our date at home.