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Introduction:

Thank you for visiting my website! This site is where I share my love and passion for teaching, gardening, cooking, photography, crocheting, and sewing. Right now, I focus on creating pictorial recipes of my family cooked meals and plant documentaries from my garden. I like creating pictorials because I am a visual learner and want to encourage young children to learn to read with picture clues and motivate parents to involve their kids during cooking time and gardening time. If you have decided to use my recipe to learn to cook something, thank you for allowing my little chefs to guide you through the step-by-step cooking process. I also am merging my crochet work and teacher portfolio into this blog. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Happy cooking, eating, learning, and gardening! – Mama Snow

About Ms. Lam:

I am a lifelong teacher, photographer, gardener, recipe developer, crocheter, wife, and mama of two munchkins. As a lifelong teacher, my greatest passion is teaching children how to read, write, and draw. As a mommy teacher, I focus on teaching my children bilingual English-Vietnamese, gardening, cooking, life skills, and most importantly, teaching my children how to show respect and appreciation since I find that’s something most children do not know or show in today’s society.

About my Family & Mom:

My family fled the communist Vietnam in 1983. Our boat floated on the vast South China Sea for four days and nights, not knowing where we would end up. A rescue ship spotted us and took us into a refugee camp in Indonesia.  In 1984, my family came to the United States. Mom is my inspiration to improve my Vietnamese cooking skill.  One of my goal in life is to master all the Vietnamese cuisines she cooked for me growing up.

About Chef Grace Nhi:

My daughter, “Chef Grace” is an artist, a painter, a builder, a gardener, a talker, a crafter, and a creative thinker with a great imagination. Chef Grace loves helping me out in the kitchen since she was fourteen-months-old. 

The help of a baby transitioning into a toddler means many spills and mess to clean up, and more things to wash, but that’s okay.  One thing important I know as a teacher is to never turn a child’s help down and to encourage any help when they are eager to help. Chef Grace started out by lining up cupcake liners, pouring ingredients into a big bowl, mixing, shaking, and stirring ingredients.  She learned to shake in seasonings to make her first roasted vegetables.  She hates vegetables but she will give any food she makes a try first.

By the time Chef Grace was 21-months-old, she took charge of helping mama mix marinade sauces.  Cooking time with my kittle chefs is also teaching time. During the prepping and cooking process, I teach my kids about colors, numbers and counting, patterning, sorting out and identifying fruits and veggies, and learning about the anatomy of an animal.  

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Besides cooking and experimenting ingredients to stir up new dishes, we big and little foodies love to explore new food choices by eating out!

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About Chef Ethan Gia-Bao

Chef Ethan Gia-Bao started helping Mama Snow in the kitchen at 16-months-old. He has his own way of helping and is still learning to observe, listen, and follow directions. He gets excited whenever he helps to cook. As long he gets to stir, pour, mix, dump ingredients into something, he will try to take part whether I let him or not. He makes a lot of mess and his favorite part in the kitchen is when he gets to mess with water.

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Note: I do not like to embed any third-party advertisements on my blog site. That is just annoying and very distracting to the readers and me. 😂 To help me earn money to maintain my little edible garden, I sell and ship $1 seed packets, and sell edible plants locally in Oviedo, Florida.