panic & patties to start the week
I locked Misty AND my car keys AND my wallet/mobile in the car yesterday.
Not my finest moment…. but thank thank thank goodness gracious for those speedy-roadside-assist-angels. Now I am more than happy to pay insurance if it means my sweltering child was rescued from his perspiringly hot prison in less than 15 minutes (with “The Wheels on the Bus” being sung by yours truly no less than 65 times in the same period of time).
Apparently it happens all the time. Or maybe my rescuer was just trying to make me feel better?
Anyway, after that dramatic segment to my Monday, I had little brain power left to come up with something for dinner (aside from a half litre of vodka for myself) – enter the pattie/fritter.
I have posted a LOT of pattie/fritter recipes over the course of my blogging foray…. they are quick to prepare, use up annoying scraps in the fridge, great for toddlers and adults alike, and are super cheap. Lot’s of winning for the pattie.
Here’s a few kiddo-inspired patties, that have gone down a treat with my little one:
Chicken & Cheese Veggie Patties
- 1 small zuccinni
- 1/2C corn kernels
- 1/8t sea salt
- Black pepper to taste
- 1 large (organic, free range) egg
- 1T milk
- 1/4C crumbled feta
- 3T chickpea flour
- 1T chopped fresh basil
- 1/4t baking powder
- Pinch of dried chilli flakes (optional)
- Coconut oil/pure butter for cooking
- Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl, adding in the baking powder last.
- Heat your oven to 180 degrees C.
- Heat oil/butter in a large frypan… the trick here is to just seal the fritter, and finish it off in the oven. Cook for 2 minutes each side, and then transfer to a lined baking sheet.
- Cook for about 10 minutes or until golden brown and firm to the touch.
- Serve with a nice fresh salad, heaps of guacamole and some sweet chilli sauce.
So there you have it, an easy Fridge Scrapings style meal – using up odds and ends from the fridge, while not draining your brain of the 5% of functioning power it has left after the stress attack of being the worst Mama in the world. Now where’s that valium?
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Vegan. Stay at home Mum of Misty. Yoga teacher in training. Passionate about REAL food - creating it, eating it, sharing it. I can never stick to a recipe.
Good Mum for singing him songs in that sticky sitch! It must have been terrifying. And good Lou for giving me a gluten free version of the corn/zucchini patty… have to try it soon. I can make it in the tiny freaky space that is my kitchen! just have to go to Piko to find the chickpea flour.
Yes, it’s not a nice feeling when you have NO control over a situation. Argh. It all ended happily though, so that’s the main thing.
Go to Binn Inn – the chickpea flour is WAY cheaper there!
Oh my god! You poor thug. That is one of my worst nightmares. In always double and triple checking I have the keys before I close the door – even though I can clearly see them I keep checking. You did good! Poor, hot Misty! He didn’t look any the worse for wear when I saw him his morning!
Ha, it’s kind of funny now I look at it…. he had been playing in the car “driving” before I put him in his car seat to go somewhere – and he had pushed down the central locking (I had no idea when I shut his door ALL the doors were locked!) Doh!
He’s tough though, he just needed a drink and he was straight back to “driving” – bless
Note to self – get spare key cut!
oh my, this is always one of my big fears. It has happened to at least a few friends of mine… so I think the rescuer was telling you the truth… happens all the time. Good mama for singing to him and trying to keep him calm though. I would have spent my evening drinking wine and eating chocolate after that day for sure!
I was amazed how quickly the roadside assist people got there…. it was awesome. I was mainly stressing as it is SO HOT here, it was 9am and already about 26 degrees C outside, so the car was a little oven.
Misty was a good sport though, he’s a tough little guy
These look great – and don’t beat yourself up over locking your poor baby in the car…we all have these moments…I always think if worse comes to worse you would just put your fist through the window to get them out…x
Exactly! At least we can laugh about it, now we are on the other side – I just have this vision of me singing a panicked “Wheels on the Bus” rendition, and Misty quite happily doing the actions while locked in the little sweat-box that was my car…. ha
what a day!! you are not a real mum until you have moments of pure panic! loving the recipe – now I have a new nonstick cast iron pan, I can make fritters again !!
I’ve got off pretty lightly with few panic-moments up to now, so that’s lucky I guess
I’m sure there will be many more, seeing as Misty is a bit of a dare-devil!
Oh YES, a good nonstick pan is brilliant for fritters/patties – yummo!
Ick! I’m glad you got rescued so quickly – I bet those 15 minutes felt like a very long time while they lasted :S These look like a perfect dinner for the end of such a day.
Yip, it was a loooong 15 minutes for sure – many many MANY variations of “The Wheels on the Bus” – I had to get rather creative
Ahh not the best little interlude to your day! Glad it all worked out ok though! On the up side, despite being frazzled, dinner looked delicious
Viper & Misty were most pleased with the patties…. anything with cheese usually goes down a treat (men!)
Hurrah for roadside saviours!! When my dad flooded my engine and my car wouldn’t start (I like reminding my dad that he did it, not me
), they arrived within 15 minutes. ‘Course, I didn’t have a toddler in the car, so I’d always hope they’d go to someone like you first!
If you have trapped your toddler in a hot car, you are considered “priority” which is a GOOD THING
Any longer I think I would have dropped dead from the stress!
oh i would have gone hysterical! like crazy woman screaming beating the car. I know i know, not a good move but yes, insurance saves our asses sometimes.
love the corn fritters. Think peas would work too?
Oh yes, peas would be fab – with a bit of fresh MINT – peas, mint and feta would be Yummo
Oh man, I would have freaked. My kids probably would have laughed though. My youngest already knows how to get out of her seat by herself (she’s 3), so she would have loved having full reign and not being told to get back in her seat. Haha, I love your explanation for why you made these, ‘annoying fridge scraps and cheap’. Still, you sold me. Now you just need some sauces to top the patties with!
Yeah, Misty cannot QUITE get out of his sea belt (yet) but I’m sure that day is not far off
He loves to play in the car (“driving”) and he had actually pushed the central locking down while doing so – so when I put him in his seat and shut his door, EVERYTHING was locked!! Argh. Oh well, it ended happily!
Yip, guacamole & sweet chilli sauce are the boys’ favourites for topping these patties
Oh boy oh berto these cake fritter things look so good!! Even with the feta, swoooon. I need to find a vegan feta substitute, but I don’t think anything will come close! By you singing that song over and over, it makes up for the locking in the car!
Hmmm, I reckon you could sub in the same amount of firm, crumbled tofu/tempeh? But you’d need to amp up the seasonings, chuck in some nutritional yeast and a bunch more SALT
Haha glad I’m not the only one. Luckily kent had another set of keys and a guy at the yard lent him his car to come rescue Dylan and a freaking out me. Felt like an eternity.
Oh yes – that’s what I NEED to do – get some spare keys cut…. handy things they are, spare keys
Hey, those fritters look great! I made some spinach, pumpkin, fetta and buckwheat fritters last night and they didnt get a very big high rating from Tas – too ‘pancakey’ apparantly! Will have to give yours a go and see if I can redeem some points! Samarah locked hersefl in the car once – for some reason I thought it was a good idea to give her the keys to play with while I was getting myself organised. Lo and behold, she clicked the lock button and she was inside and I was outside! Thankfully, my flapping arms charades got through to her and she found the right button to unlock herself! Phew! It was stressful. I am sure most mums have a lock the kid in the car story, so dont beat yourself up!
Chickpea flour helps to bind the patties, and gives them quite a dense-texture… it’s good
Ha, makes me feel so much better that other Mum’s have been through similar experiences…. lucky Sam managed to unlock herself – clever girl!!