Menu Planning

To break up some of the monotony of dinners around here (aka bean burritos), I've challenged the girls to come up with new meal ideas. Hopefully this will also help their willingness to try new things. One can hope.

Last night, our "breakfast for dinner" night, Jem wanted to make blue blueberry muffins with sprinkles. Not horrible, though I can't say I'm looking forward to blue poop.

Tonight Bug chose to make spaghetti and meatballs, but she wanted to make the spaghetti look like birdnests. We adapted a recipe I found online. The birdnests were a little crispy, since the meatballs were already in the oven at a higher temperature. Next time we'll just fashion the nests in little bowls and skip the cooking part. We'll also have to make the nests bigger; since they were only big enough to fit one meatball each, my plate creeped me out a little with its staring.

I am both shocked and thrilled to report that Jem ate meatballs. It was after ketchup appeared on the table, but she ate them and announced that the snowballs were nummy and she wanted more snowballs.

Comments

[von Krankipantzen]

THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!

...in a galaxy of veggies.

[Susie]

Um...just make sure that Jem knows when she goes to eat "snowballs" outside, they should not AT ALL resemble the snowballs Mommy makes.

[mrtl]

Holy shit, Kranki, you're right! I didn't recognize it for the vision it was.

I could have made a million on ebay.

[Amber]

You are brilliant. I love it.

[Don]

Is this the bull penis?