Joseph has always liked to help us cook. And he's pretty interested in the ingredients that go into food. I, however, really can't cook a lick. So the kid is at a bit of a disadvantage. But in conjunction with our occasional forays into the South Beach diet, I've found a recipe blog I like - Kalyn's Kitchen. The meals are healthy, low-carb, not too difficult, and usually turn out quite well.
I suggested that the boys bake a "breakfast casserole" for chef's night - an easy, healthy breakfast option. Charlie said great, but Joe insisted that he wanted to make something else: twice baked cauliflower, a recipe I had gotten from the aforementioned website. I wasn't planning on them making two different things. I didn't pick them up from school until 4:30 and they were supposed to have their dishes back at school at 5:45. But he really wanted to, so be it.
And . . . Joe's twice baked cauliflower was a HUGE hit. There was a certain buzz about the dish, and parents kept bringing friends over to try it and telling me how they couldn't believe their kids had just eaten cauliflower. Even more exciting, at the end of the night when the celebrity chefs talked about the various dishes, Monica Pope specifically mentioned Joe and said she loved it! She even signed his recipe, which he had written out by himself. The next day, she mentioned it as her Facebook status.
Then today, I hear from the chef's night organizer that Monica Pope was so enthralled with his recipe that she adapted it for a cooking class and featured it on her blog. Monica's entry is here. And the original recipe that Joe cooked can be found here. It really is delicious.
P.S. Charlie's breakfast casserole was also well received. It is a variation of those described here. We usually use chopped onions, chopped zucchini, Canadian bacon, and cheese for the kids. We often add spinach and mushrooms to half of it for us.
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