This is one recipe that really needs some scare quotes around the "sundaes" part. No kid is going to mistake cottage cheese with sunflower seeds, raisins, and peanuts on top for a sundae.
There's also the health-food equivalent of a grilled cheese sandwich. At least real Muenster cheese is acceptable, and the kid doesn't have to try to pretend a slice of tofu is the same thing...
But there's only one slice of toasted (not grilled) wholegrain bread, and health-foodiest of all, a handful of raisins in the cheesy topping. (At least no alfalfa sprouts or sunflower seeds are required.)
And there's a Yummy Banana Salad to get kids to eat some lettuce.
I'm not sure whether the topping of a full block of cream cheese mixed with orange juice and avocados would make it go down easier or harder, but the whole concoction can become a full lunch with an extra handful of peanuts!
The book offers another (usually) kid-friendly dish, even if it's not in the kiddie chapter. Animal crackers are enough of a favorite that they merit TWO variations that parents can make for snacks.
Either unhulled sesame seeds bound together with Parmesan and a touch of honey or...
...sunflower seeds with wheat germ, unsweetened coconut, or corn meal held together (I'm guessing just barely) by a little honey. Parents better hope their children never encounter actual animal crackers in the real world, or this snack will lead to a lot of questions, at the very least.
In any case, the kid-friendly recipes need to sate the little monsters well enough that they will leave the Doritos alone. Those are reserved for grownup snacks and casserole-topping.
I immediately knew that the cottage cheese "sundae" was going to be extremely lame. The title black gold is rather confusing. I'm guessing that the most accurate representation of that name is if the kids distract mom while the cheese is melting in the oven and they get burnt to a crisp and they don't have to eat cheese covered raisins.
ReplyDeleteI also love how the cracker recipes are so unlikely to hold together that you have to roll and cut them on the cookie sheet. The instructions don't even say to remove the dough around the crackers, although it's kind of implied at the end. There's no mention of trying to re-glom the dough together to make more crackers. They just concede to the reality that you're baking a bunch of crumbs that won't stick together. The fact that you wasted a lot of time and unnecessarily dirtied dishes just shows that you care.
Wasting time did seem like it was somehow a measure of care back then.
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