Penny Eats Veggies

 Penny decided not to try her vegetables today (asparagus) because it was too green, and then she "might" want to try it but then she didn't and then she wanted us to feed it to her?! Stephen and got a bit cross unfortunately after I'd spent a while making it, and after she promised that she would at least try each thing. Also, Harriet has decided that she's not going to try anything new lately either because she sees her sister doing it. Once we'd calmed down, we let her pick another vegetable instead, so we're going to try stuffed peppers instead. Just FYI this is what we made:

 We've been away on holiday to Disneyland Paris this past week and we didn't want to spend the whole time trying to convince Penny to eat veggies. We mentioned it a couple of times but she said no on the grounds that 1) we were on holiday and 2) we were in another country. (Tell us in the comments if you can find another "Friends" reference hiding in that lot!) We did worry a little bit that she wouldn't want to continue, but when we got home and asked the girls what they wanted for lunch, they said pasta bolognese. Normally we would hide the veggies in the sauce, but this time we decided to ask Penny which vegetables she would like to put in the sauce. She chose onion, carrots and peppers. She helped Stephen with the preparation and when we sat down to eat, she practically inhaled her bowl of pasta, asked for more and finished her sister's portion too! It was only halfway through that Stephen suddenly apologised to us all that there w...

  I will admit that Penny didn't choose this freaky looking vegetable from the list. I bought it because I wanted to try it, but in the spirit of things Penny was happy to give it a try. I wanted to make celeriac and potato bake which seemed easy (because what I probably should have said from the start here is that I am NOT the best cook!) To make the bake from the GBVC book we first had to make a celeriac purée (also from the GBVC book!) Celeriac Purée (serves 4 as a side) 1 large celeriac, peeled & cubed Juice of one lemon 50g butter 100ml half-fat crème fraîche Salt & ground black pepper to season Bring a pan of water to the boil and add the celeriac cubes and lemon juice. Boil the celeriac for 15-20 minutes until tender then drain well. Put into a food processor or bowl for hand blending. Add butter - which will melt with the hot celeriac - and crème fraîche and blend until the celeriac is smooth and you have a nice purée. Season with salt and ground pepper. NB: we used...