I'm the first to admit it. With a daughter who likes only rice and another daughter who won't eat vegetables, I'd be fairly optimistic to think that a dish that contains two vegetables in it (one of them green, at that!), would go down well.
But I have cooked this one before, and to my absolute joy and amazement, it was as popular as the Mr Whippy van on a hot Summer's day.
So I naturally assumed that this would be a good starting point for my new-found kitchen enthusiasm.
Now, I've never been a big fan of spinach. It's green; in its frozen form its leaves clump together and it reminds me more of something I'd relegate to the bottom of the farthest rubbish bin as soon as possible. But it tastes heavenly. Especially when it's mixed with potato.
This dish is easy to prepare. (For me, that's sayin' something!) I dished it onto the plates and nervously called everyone to the table.
"Yuk!" said daughter number two.
"Just try it" I said. "You've had it before. You loved it then."
I soon found out that this approach doesn't work with a 4 year old who lives only in the present.
"Yum!" said daughter number one. (Yes, this is the same daughter who will not eat vegetables.)
I watched in amazement as she chewed away happily whilst entertaining us all with a detailed account of her school day. Somewhere between the retelling of the events of morning recess and lunchtime, a piece of spinach got stuck between her two front teeth, and she discreetly shifted it before moving onto a blow-by-blow description of how everybody in the school got into trouble because someone messed up the toilets and wouldn't confess. All the while, eating spinach! She ate two of the potato skins and asked for another. My vegetable hating daughter is eating spinach! I savoured every moment because I know that another vegetable will most likely not pass her lips until I cook this one again.
Overall, a huge success!
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