Here are just a couple pictures of a cooking project we did yesterday. Josephine was inspired by the show "Chopped". We started out by choosing four random items for each other to include in a brunch meal. So, she chose for me . . . garlic, a can of lima beans, tapioca pearls and fresh cranberries. I know! Crazy! So, I chose for her . . . . corn tortilla chips, an egg, a potato and lime juice. You're not going to believe it -- but we made a great meal!! She made a sweet lime quickbread -- by adding sugar, flour, baking soda and salt to her lime juice and baking it -- think key lime pie in bread form! It was great! She also made omelet dish with mushrooms, broken up tortilla chips and egg and then sliced her potato to make french fries. It was all SO good.

I mixed up my can of lima beans with some of my garlic, some grated carrot, an egg, flour and salt and fried up some "fritters". I then mixed my cranberries with sugar and water to make cranberry sauce and thickened it with the tapioca pearls. Also, quite good!

Well, it was really fun and we're going to do it again. We'll post future pictures . . .