Trying times

Following junior’s decision to try pineapple, Sean brought one back from Volos which was cut up and presented for her approval. Well, her face was a picture, Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ to be exact, you’d have thought I was trying to get her to eat poison from the pained expression on her face. The upshot of this was she licked a piece of pineapple and ate a piece the size of a hamsters toenail. Result (said in a sarcastic tone). Refusing to be defeated, I asked what she’d like to try next from the Vegan food pyramid. She picked a cauliflower. I dutifully made cauliflower cheese of which she ate 2 mouthfuls – well they would be mouthfuls if her mouth was the size of a pin head! So not such a great success then. Yesterday was lentil soup and crouton day

which I have to say was absolutely yummy. Junior was pleased with the croutons but less awed by the soup. She ate 6 croutons from her soup but refused to try any of the soup on its own. Defeated? Not yet! Today is potato day. I love spuds, especially mashed and so that is what junior and I will be doing later.
I made cinnamon and raisin bagels yesterday which are really not photogenic enough to be shown here. It was a different recipe to the one I normally use and I don’t think I’ll be using it again. They are edible though so I suppose I shouldn’t complain. Junior ate half of one but when I offered her the other half, she politely declined. She’ll always try sweet things and give the impression of enjoying them and then won’t eat any more. Similar scenario with the fruit loaf below,

she ate one piece when it was fresh out of the oven but has refused to have any since. With Sean in Volos most of the time it has fallen to me to work my way through the loaf on my own. It’s been tough but I’ve nearly finished it
Talking of Volos, Sean came back on Saturday with a vegan treat for our dinner.

He even prepared it himself with artistic ketchup design. Oh it’s nice to have some fast food once in a while.