Rather than crash in front of a movie or with a book tonight after the baby went to bed I decided to bake. This is something I often want to do until I go downstairs after the bed time ritual and decide that I don't have the patience, energy or desire to spend time in the kitchen.
Tonight however I was determined to use the zucchini I bought a few days ago and turn it into something my little girl will eat! She's not a fan of vegetables as vegetables...or fruit as fruit come to think of it. We keep trying, every day, but this is a method that works for us, at least once in a while. I tried Jessica Seinfeld's approach and decided that the subtitle of "easy" was a complete lie. Plus the 2 recipes I tried were disgusting, to adults and child alike. So, it's back to squash muffins and zucchini chocolate chip cookies. The muffins are yummy and far more successful for me lately than zucchini bread - which has been repeatedly raw in the middle, despite lengthier cooking times and a flawless oven. The recipe is made by the walnuts, but since we haven't really introduced nuts to the little girl's diet yet, they only go in the half destined for grown-ups. The cookies are a new venture. Barbara Kingsolver used these in Animal Vegetable Miracle and they sounded intriguing. Lousy cook that I am, I didn't try one as they came out of the oven. We'll try then on a child and maybe on colleagues tomorrow.
Hopefully the whole lot will be better than the very sour sourdough I made the other day that didn't really rise.
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I am proud of you for trying :) It is very easy to give up and just offer tater tots and fish sticks. My little girl (19 months almost) goes through phases of loving veggies to avoiding them like the plague. Toddlers, gotta love them!
I too have the Seinfeld recipe book but have yet to try a recipe...which ones did you make that the family didn't like.
I tried the chicken nuggets, trying both spinach and sweet potato to dredge the chicken. I tried it while cooking and said "no way" (After throwing out all dredged in spinach before cooking - just too weird). I can't remember which other one I tried. I heard the pancakes with sweet potato were good.
My big problem with these as a means to introduce veggies is the quantities. At most you are using 1/2 cup of each puree in each recipe, divided by number of servings leads to a miniscule amount of actual veggies being injested.
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