Carrots, carrots and more carrots

Turning into a rabbit, I am.

This afternoon, I realised I had about 2 kgs of carrots and may need to use some up soon.

We love carrots in this house, but there's only so many things I can think of doing with them... coleslaw, mash, sliced, diced, steamed, grated, pureéd, soup etc etc etc. I grate them and add to all sorts of meals so the kids get their vegetables, one way or another.

Today I decided to make some curried carrot soup for tomorrow and prep some for another day (myself and my kiddiwinks got some for snacks this afternoon too...).

Parboil, cool, freeze. Done.

But what about dinner tonight?! Uh oh!

Fiddlesticks. Fed up of peeling veg today...

I'm taking a vegetarian chilli out of the freezer! :D

What do you like to make with carrots??

Food, glorious food...

I love how my kids enjoy their food.

Teagan can be a bit fussy at times, a bit like me I suppose. She often judges a meal by the way it looks. With some encouragement (okay, and some reverse psychology sometimes), she'd eventually sample it and make her honest, sometimes callous, review - eg. Dan made a yummy satay recently; she licked it and loudly exclaimed 'but it's got peanut butter in it! I don't want/like peanut butter in my dinner!' etc... you'd swear she didn't like peanut butter... she actually does! We explained that wasn't very kind of her to say it wasn't nice, just because SHE didn't like the taste, we liked it, Daddy kindly made it for us...

Anyway... we taught her about tact and kindness and how to be respectful at the dinner table. We thought it was resolved.

Bearing in mind, she IS four.

A day or two after, she burst out in praise of the evening meal 'I like THIS dinner, this is my favourite, the best dinner ever!'

We commended her for saying lovely things, and then the bombshell hit...

'I like it because it DOESN'T have peanut butter in it!!!'

And proceeded to go on and on and on about it for weeks later.

She is her father's daughter *wink *