Grater = Greater

  I have two small kids and getting children to eat veggies can be hard.  Especially with the girl child.  She loves veggies but only if cooked the way she is used too.  So if the first way she remembers eating broccoli is raw that is how she will eat it from now on.  So I have been finding ways to sneak them into her food.  One thing I can always get her to eat is potatoes.  So I have started employing my box grater to slip the other veggie in all the time.  Like tonights meal.  I took three small potatoes and baked them off.  While the potatoes are baking I grated 2 zucchini, 1 squash, a carrot, and an onion.  Let the grated veggies sit in a strainer and the moisture drain away.  Once the potatoes are done I let them cool once they are cool enough to work with I grate those into the bowl and add the grated veggies.  I then mix it with some egg, flour and salt and cook them like hashbrowns.  So Baby Girl thinks she is getting yummy hash browns and Mommy knows she is getting little potato and a whole lot of hidden veggies.

An amazing chicken pot pie.

  Chicken pot pie is one of those comfort foods that you are either on board with 100% or you just won't eat I have seen in the past.  I haven't really ever met someone who is like Chicken pot pie Meh I can take it or leave it.  Usually it is OMG best food EVER, or Yuck I would rather eat rocky mountain oysters than eat chicken pot pie.  But for those that do love chicken pot pie it is some of the most amazing food on the planet.

  I am a firm believer of a super creamy pie full of chicken and veggies and topped with a buttery puff pastry.  The puff pastry portion is enough to earn me the black list for true southern chicken pot pie eaters.  You are supposed to make it with a pie crust, preferably grandmas.  I am not a whiz with the pie crust so call me a cop out but I go the easy route with the puff pastry.  And when I am talking about creamy filling I mean think cream of chicken soup with chunks of chicken and celery and carrots.  The hubby likes potatoes in his and I can take them or leave them.  If I am putting them in there I prefer them to be diced fine and cooked in a skillet not boiled.  No one in the family likes peas so we leave them out.  However if we get a pot pie in a restaurant we will eat the peas, just don't keep them in the house.  I am going to make a pot pie tonight and once I see how it comes our having only made it myself once before I will let you all know how I did it.