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Culinary Aventures
...in which our heroine attempts to trick her child into eating things he does not like but which are good for him.
For Christmas, my aunt Barbara got us the Jessica Seinfeld cookbook, Deceptively Delicious. The basic gist of this is, through the magic of pureeing, you can sneak healthy foods into regular foods and your child will be none the wiser. I'm all for trickery in any form, so I was eager to try it.
I dusted off the steamer and steamed some carrots and then cauliflower while I roasted some butternut squash in the oven. It all started out well enough, but I ran into trouble trying to use a tiny food processor to puree the carrots. It didn't work well, so I decided to try the blender. I dumped the contents of the food processor into the blender and hit PUREE, and was surprised to smell....burning.
Why did this happen? Because when I dumped the contents of the food processor into the blender I also dumped the...anyone? anyone...the processor blade into the blender, which didn't play well with the blender blade.
Long story short: I bought a SWEET food processor and proceeded to puree like a mofo.
A little about pureeing vegetables: butternut squash is easy and pleasant smelling. Carrots don't easily turn "smooth and creamy". Cauliflower does indeed turn smooth and creamy but then smells like stinkbugs.
Here's what I ended up with:
Then I made my first tricky snack. I mixed peanut butter, light cream cheese, hershey's syrup and carrot puree into a dip for apple slices. I tasted it, and verified that you could neither see nor taste the carrots. Christopher had this to say:
I'm not feeling too smug, given the 6 tablespoons of chocolate syrup in the recipe, but I was pleased that he didn't notice the carrots. Next up: noodles with butter, cheese, and butternut squash.
Stay tuned.
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love to hear more in person...I LAUGH at the lawsuit here.
like EITHER WOMAN invented this...my mom did it in the 60's.
Carla
That dip looks good. Why must you always post about food? I come to visit and end up hungry.