Meera has had one too many bad experiences in the kitchen with pungent ingredients making her eyes sting and tear up. As a result she’s developed a full-fledged 4-year-old-phobia of cooking with (or even being around the kitchen during the cooking of) certain eye-tearing-up-root vegetable/spices — namely onion, garlic, and ginger. Last night she desperately wanted to help me cook dinner, but she knew the recipe (one of our favorites: you can find it here), involved lots of chopped fresh garlic and ginger. Dilemma! To cook or not to cook? Oh how she wanted to cook! But oh how scared she is of those dreaded eye-tearing vapors! Suddenly she had the most brilliant idea! Her swimming goggles! Yes! Problem solved. She cooked that dish right up — (and did a very good job of it, by the way!) — and then ate every bite on her plate. Cooking with goggles! Perfect!
Good thinking, M!
Laurie Miles would love this. She has a pair of kitchen goggles hanging in her kitchen she uses all the time for just that reason. Good going Meera!
Great idea! I showed this to Ella( my 5 year-old) and she thought it was a great idea-she also really dislikes cooking when it involves onion or other spices that make her eyes water!
And that recipe is one of our favorites! I printed it out when you posted it before and it’s one of my “go to” recipes quite frequently!
Ingenious! Well done Meera!
– Kate
I love the ingenuity!!
Love this! My 4 yo granddaughter is living with us and she helps me cook all the time. No goggles yet but we have had plenty of other interesting clothing/hats/glasses/mittens/etc/
Brilliant! I love it. Kids are so funny.