Any devious ideas for hiding veggies?

D&DD

Katya have you tried growing raspberries they are really easy and you do get a great crop from them

blue-kat

thanks D&DD
good idea to get kids involved in growing food too.

sounds interesting !
I was under the impression that raspberries were rather complicated with pruning certain stems at specific times etc.

is it possible to grown them in containers?
our garden is all stone-covered, it's short driveway to derelict old coachhouse. I'm thinking of getting old horse troughs to use as planting beds.

debbym

Mr_Proctalgia wrote:

You have to play mind games - One of mine refused point blank to eat Mushrooms in any shape or form but he would eat Tinned Champignons, after a while he would eat "Fresh Champignons" prepared at home - Go figure; it beat us!!!

My two wouldn't touch potatoes unless they were chips or crisps. We now have "fluffy clouds" instead of mashed potatoes or "fluffy clouds in a boat" for baked potatoes and they go down a treat.
Mind you if anyone tells my daughter that those round orange slices in her dinner are carrots and not baby squash I'm in trouble :rotfl:

D&DD

Katya I grew mine in troughs at first as I was moving house then put them in a shallow raised bed when we got here and they've been fine
The pruning issue is to do with which type you buy the summer fruiting fruit on last years wood so after fruiting you dont prune,the autumn fruiting fruit on the new seasons/current years growth so you chop them down after they fruit.Having said this I just let mine grow and if the wood looks old I thin out then..They send shoots out under the soil along and up so that increases your stock quickly I started with around 10 canes and now have around 50+ :eek: You can always cut them off to keep them from spreading though but I tend to let them grow as the boys love them and we never have enough fresh,frozen or jammed.If you like them you'd love loganberries but thay are quite prickly plants. I have a wonderful thornless blackberry too which was pennies from woolworths as were the loganberries

daysieblue

A quick question for all you clever people.

On Monday I made a macaroni cheese (in true OS from had that for dinner and 8 portions in the freezer!) I've always felt a bit guilty about mac cheese as it's not something I've been able to add veg to. My family really don't like veg, so I have to be clever! This time I had a brainwave and steamed half a cauliflower, blended it with some milk and then added it to the cheese sauce.

Apart from the obvious pasta sauce and blended soup, are there any other ways I can hide veggies in their food (the cauliflower went by completely undetected!!!)

Thanks

db xx

Softstuff

Lasagne is a good one for hiding veggies in. My lasagne tends to have grated carrot, grated courgette, finely diced aubergine, onion, mushrooms and whatever else I have to hand. Since you've mastered blending the cauli into a cheese sauce, mine might have that in next time too!.

Pink.

Hi daysieblue,

We have a great thread on hiding vegetables that should give you more ideas so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

spiddy100

I made some fishcakes the other day loosely based on Annabel Karmel's gefilte fish recipe - basically, cooked white fish, finely chopped onion, pinch of sugar and an egg, formed into either little balls (her suggestion) or little burger shapes (this was how mine turned out!) and shallow fry. However, I also chopped up some leftover greens from the bottom of the fridge - cabbage, little gem lettuce and brocolli - into very small pieces and mixed them in, and both the kids ate these with great relish!

Depends what your kids are into but mine really like fishfingers and anything that comes in pieces - e.g. sausages, meat etc - rather than pasta or shepherds pie.

dianadors

I make a large tin of roast veggies every week and use them for grown ups in curries etc. I whizz some up with a tin of tomato's for Pizza sauce, bolognese sauce, sauces for chicken etc. My kids eat Aubergines, courgettes, onions, red pepper etc etc stuff they wouldnt normally touch. They absolutley love homemade pizza with this sauce!!!

elly2

Mince and dumplings for tea today and am just wondering how i can hide some carrots in the mince, i know to grate them but is there a limit to how many i can use, also will mushrooms work this way as, well my kids refuse to eat veg at all but i read a post that said grated carrot can not be detected.
Another question sorry i have about 20 carrots what else could i do with them i have tried the carrot cake and soup but they dont like/wont eat either of these dishes.