My kids haven't been eating great lately. The seem to be living on yogurt and fruit and bagels and Annie's macaroni and cheese. It's driving me bananas.
I found a recipe for a spinach and cheese pie that sounded delicious, but I knew there was no way they would eat the green stuff. Then I remembered that baby spinach has basically no flavor, and that blueberries easily mask the color of spinach. Aha! Inspiration. I made the recipe, but used 2/3 the spinach it called for, and then added blackberries (which are much more plentiful and hence less expensive here than blueberries).
The pie was beautiful--deep purple in color, and creamy from the cheese/berry/spinach/egg mixture. And the taste? Divine. Although there wasn't a drop of sugar in the recipe, it tasted like blackberry pie. You couldn't tell there was an ounce of spinach (or egg, or cheese) in it. I drizzled the pie with vanilla yogurt. It was like eating dessert for dinner.
So how did it go over?
They wouldn't eat it.
5 comments:
That sounds delicious! Any chance you will post the recipe?
Ohh well kids! What can you do..? But your description made me want to taste it :)
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Ha -- I'm with them :-) I wouldn't have eaten it either.
But I am a very picky eater.
Though I'll eat spinach.
What if the kids had to make you dinner? A big salad that they had to pull together and eat themselves. What would they put in it? I mean, pose that question to the kids.
Oh, the futility! It sounds delicious to me.
I'm always shocked at the things my kids eat that I wouldn't think they would. I'm also shocked when they don't eat things I expressly made for them to like it.
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