Girl Power

My Outrageous Friend Charlie.  This adorable book, published in 1989, is written by prolific children's author and illustrator Martha Alexander.  Jessie Mae starts out at the beginning of the book feeling inadequate next to her friend Charlie.  But watch out when her girl power takes over!  The illustrations are so charming, just like in Alexander's other books (which I will have to add another day, because they are also great). 

I cam across this great book at the library and brought it come to cook up something new and UNUSUAL with the kids. 

Honestly, many of the recipes seemed very unexciting, but my son loves shrimp and picked this out.  I am not printing out the entire recipe.  It really just involved dipping the shrimp in egg whites and then in coconut and frying in oil.  It was yummy.  Here is the pic from the book and the one my son took of our creation.