She would eat it everyday if she could. Last weekend she decided to make Minestrone soup - All by herself! She chopped all the ingredients up and carefully added them to the soup pot and stirred it on the stove top. She tasted and seasoned it. I think she is a budding chef.
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| Carefully chopping the veggies |
Minestrone is such a yummy soup - filled with lots of veggies, pasta and beans. It makes a nutritious vegan dinner in about 1/2 an hour. We don't really use a set recipe but it goes something like this
1 onion, 2 carrots, 1 stick of celery, a couple of cloves of garlic - all chopped up and sautéed in olive oil for about 10 minutes until soft.
Add about 4 cups of water, a tin of tomatoes and some fresh herbs, salt and pepper and bring to the boil.
Once it is boiling add about a cup full of dried pasta and bring back to the boil - boil for about 5 minutes then add about 3 cups of fresh green veggies (cabbage, zucchini, beans, peas, spinach - it doesn't really matter).
After another 5 minutes (when the veggies and pasta are cooked) stir in a tin of kidney or canellini beans.
Do a quick taste test to see if it is good, add more salt and pepper if you need to.
Then serve with a big slab of fresh bread and you will have a scrummy quick and easy and tasty dinner.
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| Yum! |
Later in the week she had this scrummy pasta salad for her school lunch. It was made with risoni pasta and had spring onion, red capsicum, celery, cucumber, olives and salami in it. She would love to have this for her school lunch everyday.
I've always been amazed at how many interesting things Emma will eat. I guess when you take out so many of the usual kid type food from the diet, the door is opened for lots of other exciting ingredients to come in it.
Happy eating.
Barbs
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