It’s sinful I didn’t take a snap of the ingredients I began working with when I was asked to whip something up for the kids, & their one friend who’d rather stay & have dinner w/the girls even if I were serving cold gruel vs. leaving the play date at 5:30P to go home and eat dinner w/her parents.
What I whipped up with all left over, neglected or forgotten parts & parcel was:
Steamed broccoli spears & baby carrots served with organic ranch dressing for dipping. Lil & Rosie gobbled this right up.
Then I halved grape tomatoes & 1/4’d radishes and topped this with a light coating of a bottled organic balsamic vinaigrette. I can’t say I thought the radishes would go over well with the kidDiwinks but the parents loved the combination. I cut the radishes into quite large pieces so the girls could pick the radishes out from the tomatoes because I know the girls love tomatoes.
Then I prepared my newest SpecialD: lightly sauteed, grated zucchini cooked off with a knob of butter, a good swirl of honey, & a few pinches of my RhODy, Salt of D Earth blend. The dish was ooed & ahhed over by everyone, even Rosie, who claimed to not like zucchini, she ate some of this.
Then I made a fruit salad with the most perfect mango I’ve worked w/in years. I did the traditional cubes by scoring the section I cut away from the bit, bent it inward to then slice the cubes off the mango skin into the serving bowl. Then I diced a Jana Gold apple & two rough plums I worked my magic on, topped this with a squeeze of lime juice and this too was a big hit. All gone. I had to ask the girls to save some for their mom & dad who had gone back to their respective demanding jobs.
The 1/2 an onion & banana pepper ringsĀ sauteedĀ in an almost dry pan on a high fire – this I knew no kid would eat but boy were the parents into it.
I think the key, when cooking for kids is, it’s all about choice, giving them a variety of foods to choose from so they can try different tastes, textures, temperatures etc. They hold the spoon, so they’re in charge. In my opinion, the food goes down better a whole lot better.
Clean up was a breeze and then the girls performed a Woody Woodpecker play for us.
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