Misty’s favourites of the moment
First up, I’ve just got to say how incredibly awesome all your readers out there are. I received so much beautiful support in the form of comments and emails from this post, it was quite overwhelming. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I’ve honestly been having a pretty average week in the kitchen. I have produced 2 creations for Viper that were inedible. This doesn’t happen very often, so it’s safe to say my cooking mojo is slighty “off” at the moment. A beef curry that tasted like “vinegar” (although it contained nothing of the sort?) and a banana bread that had a “gummy texture like Congee(!)” Ha. Oh well, at least I have a very well-fed (and not too picky) dog. Lucky Boosty.
I have been having far more success with Misty meals though. I admit, he IS getting to be a tad fussy…. and he has also mastered the art of exclaiming, “Yuck!” and throwing morsels as far as his little arms can muster. Again, lucky Boosty. I call the following cheesey-savoury-bites “Freckles” – I think mainly because I cut them into tiny little circles for fun. It’s all about FUN at this age (nearing the Terrible Twos) isn’t it? This recipe utilises one of the Super Foods for Kidz products = Vital Veggie Power (available HERE)…. the easiest way to sneak in some nutrition to the unaware.
Tasty Cheezey Freckles
(Wheat/nut/seed/egg/refined sugar/corn/soy free)
- 3T besan
- 2T quick oats
- 3T water
- 1t Vital Veggie Power powder – if you don’t have this, nutritional yeast would be a good substitution.
- Pinch salt
- 1/8C grated cheese
- Combine all ingredients together in a small bowl – mix well, ensure no lumps. Let the mix sit for about 10 minutes, it will thicken a little.
- Grease a non stick fry pan with some coconut oil/butter/oil of choice.
- When the pan is at a moderately hot, and scoop in the mixture, flattening with the back of a spatula until it is about 3mm in thickness. (You can cook this in a few batches if one large one is too much for you to flip).
- Cook for around 2-3 minutes, either side…. the cheese will bubble a little and it will become golden brown and firm up.
- Slide out of the pan, and let it cool a little before cutting into shapes – cookie cutters are fun!
Even Viper gives these his approval.
Another favourite of Misty’s is plain popcorn. Sometimes we sprinkle with a touch of sea salt and nutritional yeast, but he’ll happily eat it plain. Simple is good sometimes. Keeps him busy for a while for sure.
Nappies, socks and shoes is the new style. Just sayin.’
Another quick & easy snack that is approved by both Misty AND Viper are these easy cookies. Simple ingredients, that hopefully most people have in their cupboard, and really quick to whip up – no fancy appliances required.
Easy Oat Cookies
Makes around 10 small cookies.
- 1/2C wholemeal plain flour (or a plain gluten free flour)
- 1/2C whole oats (sub in dessicated coconut if you are sensitive to oats)
- 1 egg
- 1/8t sea salt
- 1t ground cinnamon
- 1/4C melted coconut oil
- 2T liquid honey
- 1/3C raisins (or any dried fruit/chopped nuts/chocolate chips etc)
- Pre heat oven to 180 degrees C.
- Combine egg, liquid coconut oil and honey together in a small bowl, and beat together with a fork.
- Mix all other ingredients together in a separate bowl.
- Pour liquids into the dry ingredients. Combine well.
- Place tablespoons of the mix onto a lined baking sheet, flatten out slightly with the back of a spoon,
- Bake for 13-15 minutes or until evenly golden brown.
- Remove tray from oven, and leave cookies on it for a few minutes.
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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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.
Those cookies look so good Lou! And don’t worry, we all have tough times in the kitchen occasionally- I mean how will you stumble upon a new great idea if you don’t make mistakes once in a while?
Indeed – kitchen creations are all about trial & error – some of my best culinary lessons have come from monumental disasters
Oh, feeding children. Who would do it? That’s a tough job. At about 3, Miss J developed the habit, which she still has, of eating a few bites of something, then declaring ‘I’m full’. She still eats like this. Just a few bites of this, a few bites of something else. She prefers to take 20 bites of 20 different things, than eat a whole sandwich. In Italy she tantrumed for about 20 minutes about a particular cake she’d seen in a shop, so eventually, out of sheer embarrassment (she is the trantrum queen, no kidding), and because I’m the Aunty, we went back and bought it. She ate one bite and then said ‘I’m full, it’s ok if you eat the rest’.
Hey, at least you got some cake out of the whole exercise! Misty has this thing where he will only eat out of MY bowl/off MY plate – and I’m not good at sharing my food
My other niece does that. Every single time we have been out for dinner together (I don’t see her that often), she climbs on my knee and goes for it with her germy little fingers on my food. At least that one likes veges a lot – which is probably why she goes for MY plate: it’s the one with greens on it.
Oh those little germy fingers – I know them well. That’s why I spent the weekend in bed with a stomach bug!!
Those cheesy bites look great – another one on the long list of Lou’s creations I need to try!! You need to make a recipe book! I hope things have been looking up for you inside the kitchen and out…:-) I definitely had a week of cooking flops – you know its terrible if tas won’t go for seconds! Pancakey spinach patties and then an awful quinoa pie…redeemed with some arancini balls last night!
Ha, yes it’s all trial and error in the kitchen – luckily I usually have more hits than misses – but it seems this week I just wasn’t in my kitchen groove
It’s all good though – I often find some great culinary lessons are learned from disaster-meals!
I don’t know what I like better, these snacks or Misty’s fashion. Think I could get away with that look? How about at the grocery store? SO cute!! YUMMMO!
At least he had a nappy on this time – his usual “look” is a singlet, NO nappy (diaper) and gumboots. He’s got style, my child, he’s got STYLE
I think Holden will love those cookies, can’t wait to try them out! Feeding a toddler is so hit and miss… right now Holden is adoring dips. Most times he will just lick the dip off, so I am getting sneaky now and packing all the nutrition into the actual dip ha!
They are super easy these cookies- and you could make so many tasty variations
Toddlers are SO fickle – Misty won’t eat anything that resembles a dip…. this week – next week? Who knows!?
I feel like Misty and I might have similar tastes
These look great for children and adults alike!
Yes yes, Viper was a BIG fan – I had to tell him off for scoffing “Misty’s Food” (!)