Culinary Kid Gifts

'The cake timer dinged, Mom, and so did my stomach.'

Sushi Train Set.

'Put an egg in the bowl and beat it with the whisk.'

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

"Abstract Expressionism is definitely right for me at this stage of my career."

"Jill Hamster's entrepreneurial disaster"

"I have no idea what, hic, went wrong. I did everything, hic, Mario Batali said."

"You're the lid to my pot."

6 Brothers Falafel

Frank & Ernie's Diner. Special: Scrabbled Eggs. No, sir, it's not a misprint -- Ernie adds alphabet soup.

Cookbooks

Careful, the plate's probably still hot.

As you like it - 'Waiter, chicken with watercress please' 'I'm sorry sir we haven't any chicken left ... but if you wish I bring you a larger portion of watercress...'

'He's trying to put some magic into my recipes.'

Picking pastries.

"Rump roast?"

'Hi, Miss Henderson, we did collage in class today. Can you drive me home?'

'I started out washing dishes, but when the dishwater tasted better than the soup...'

'Waiter...my entrée fell over.'

"I've never heard of it, either, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, I always say!"

"'TSP' stands for 'teaspoon' not 'two solid pounds'!"

Peter Pan, the Utensil that Never Grew Up

Canape?

"How fresh is the calamari?"

"Is the asparagus farm-raised or wild-caught?"

"These things are delicious. Hard and crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside!"

"Our cook is new, so ge's Googling what goes on a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich as we speak."

"And how is last week's tilapia tonight?"

"We have; pulled pork, enticed chicken, persuaded lamb, bullied beef, cajoled Turkey..."

"The soup of the day is pineapple with a hint of rum."

Frank and Ernie's Diner. We're all out of pressed duck, sir, but I can put the squeeze on some chicken for you.

'I don't think that's what they mean by reducing the wine.'

Feeding of a giraffe with the use of a balloon.

'I don't care if Jackson Pollock did start out this way. We are drawing kittens.'

"I hope we can sell everything before it's time for mom to make dinner."