Posted in Family, Food, tagged Children, Food on 7 July, 2008| 1 Comment »
My kids love Judith Kerr’s book ‘The Tiger who came to tea’. Last week the Joker’s class spent some time reading the book. They also drew a dinner plate full of food for the hungry tiger who ate all of the food in Sophie’s house.
The Joker tells me that the following foods are on the plate:
Fishfingers, broad beans, ice cream, a sweetie, a jelly baby, peas, a carrot, baked bean, broccoli, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps, a radish, ribena, pizza and chips.
Posted in Family, Food, tagged Children, Food on 4 June, 2008| 1 Comment »
Today the Joker was struggling with finishing some mushrooms from his lasagne at tea time. Cooked mushrooms are not popular with any of my children but I thought I could sneak them past with the mince.
We bribed him to eat the mushrooms by telling him he could have some more lettuce if he ate the mushrooms up. It worked.
The Joker loves to eat green veggies. He is a strange mutant. How long will it last do you think?
Posted in Food, tagged Food, Snacks on 19 May, 2008| 3 Comments »
Home from school today, my kids were after a snack and were uninterested in healthy bananas.
The Queen suddenly mentioned that she’d like cauliflower dip. This is a remembered recipe from my childhood, when my mum used it to get my sister and I to consume veggies.
The Queen asked if she could also have ‘some of those green balls’ to dip in it too. This is a mother’s triumph – a child asking for sprouts!
Sadly (!) we were out of sprouts so they just dipped the cauli:
Click on the pictures to get more details, or see below for the summary.
4-5 tbspns creme fraiche
1-2 tbspns mayonnaise
1 tspn curry powder
Place ingredients in bowl. Stir.
Enough to dip a whole cauliflower, broken into florets. Can also be used to dip breadsticks, sprouts, carrots etc, but the pepperiness of a cauliflower goes really well.
Posted in Food, Teenagers, tagged Food, Teenagers on 14 May, 2008| Leave a Comment »
After an evening with our 11-14s I need to make a note to myself:
Teenagers don’t like cakes with raisins, currants or any other dried fruit, unless covered with 90% chocolate. So no more fairy cakes with currants (the ones my dad likes).
Teenagers also don’t like cake they’re not familiar with, so even if you tell them it’s like chocolate brownie only with lemon flavour and no chocolate, they won’t even try it. But it might be the lack of chocolate rather than the lemon.
Best to stick to chocolate (also flapjack and oatie biscuits they said).
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