Cooking for No Dummies.

Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 24/08/2008 (6435 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

As far as dining is concerned, my kids know what they like and what they don’t like.  Unfortunately what they like isn’t always “nutritious.”Now I have not read any of these famously competing books about blending asparagus into chocolate cake but I have read the summaries in the many parent magazines that hit my mailbox every month and I think I get the general idea and from what I gather, it is not an original one. My Aunt Maria has been serving our family chocolate cake with zucchini in it since before the world knew who Brad Pitt was, and my mother has been blending all sorts of vegetables into her many Greek dishes since the pre-microwave era.That’s why I chuckle when I read arguments about who invented this revolutionary idea first. Anyways, I digress.  My kids are an enigma to say the least.  They eat broccoli, spinach and cauliflower.  They devour multigrain bread and prefer their fruit smoothies are made with soy milk.So what’s the problem you say?  Aside from the fact that summer has led to the misconception that all meals should end in ice-cream, I used to be able to feed these little people any form of grilled meat or fish, provided it was accompanied by a generous mound of ketchup. I’m not sure exactly what happened, but one day my eldest felt it beneath him to eat grilled chicken or salmon, a sentiment his copycat sister quickly replicated.So tonight, I thought I would pull a fast one on them.  Like a good Greek mom, I grilled my chicken, as per usual, with olive oil, salt, pepper and oregano and I cut it into the tiniest little pieces, inserting the breast into a bowl of steamed vegetables and rice.Let’s just say two snoring siblings have some protein in their bellies this evening….