Sorry for the lull. Sean and I have been sick for a long time. Combo of never ending colds and bacterial infections. Not fun. I appear to be on the mend (fingers crossed). But poor Sean is down for the count with a new set of ear infections. Luckily I’m the one who does the blogging or you might have to wait even longer…
Anyway…
It might not be a surprise, but Sean really likes to eat. Everything I’ve read seems to say, “as babies become mobile and then start walking, they lose interest in eating because everything else is so exciting. So don’t worry when your toddler seems to eating hardly anything at all.” Right. Well this doesn’t apply to Sean, who is a food-lover. (We do eat good food here.) We’ve been trying to cook dinners for everyone that Sean can eat directly, or eat with a little extra cutting up. A few weeks ago Ben made his lovely Spinach Rice Casserole, which we enjoy from time to time. Well. We put some in front of Sean. He tried it. And then starting gobbling the stuff up! When we had leftovers a couple days later, he again devoured it. And so Ben made it again last week. Snarf! Definitely a favorite Sean food. Here he is in action:
Love this! It’s fun to see Sean sign and eat so well. Alasdair has had two stomach bugs in the last few weeks and only ate saltine crackers for three days. Now that he’s feeling better he’s eating us out of house and home. He just keeps eating! You should post the recipe for this, so we and others can try it!!!
The recipe is in the new Moosewood cookbook. I add all of the optional ingredients, but I’ve left out the sunflower seeds and changed the spice amounts: 1/2 tsp nutmeg and 1/8 tsp cayenne (instead of 1/4 each).