Spinach in Brownies?
Leave it to a millionaire's wife to come up with what I think is a million dollar idea! I haven't blogged in a while because I've been so busy but I did catch ten minutes of the Oprah Winfrey show featuring Jerry Seinfeld's wife, Jessica. She was sharing her solution to the problem of getting kids to eat veggies.
The subject caught my attention because I too struggle with trying to force my girls to eat vegetables. The revolutionary solution? Hide those veggies! I already do it to some extent, by doing things like tearing up spinach leaves and putting them into salad full of iceberg and other lettuce. Jessica Seinfeld goes a step beyond that, by putting a vegetable into the food processor and then putting that vegetable "puree" into a recipe for kid-friendly food. I think she mixes cauliflower puree into macaroni and cheese, as well as squash into chicken nuggets.
The show featured Oprah tasting a chocolate brownie that had spinach as the secret ingredient! The cookbook is called "Deceptively Delicious" and it apparently has a bunch of recipes featuring food with added vegetables. I plan on buying a copy of the book!
On the show Jessica talked about how she prepares all her purees for the week on Sunday night while she and Jerry chat together in the kitchen. I can't help but wonder if he's as funny in the kitchen as a husband, as he is as a comedian on TV? Anyway, it all sounds way to normal for a celebrity couple, but it's nice to think they have some of the same parenting issues as the rest of us. Jessica Seinfeld's solution sounds like a good one. I just wish I thought of it (and put it into a cookbook) first. I'll let you know how the brownies taste!
